The County of Riverside's University Health System

• Behavioral Health department seeks a Buyer I to join their Material Management team.

Under general supervision, the incumbent will be responsible for processing low value purchase requests, providing order status updates to department staff, working directly with vendors in procurement process, ensuring the department is adhering to County Purchasing guidelines, assisting Buyer II's with any outstanding requests as needed; purchasing or negotiating to purchase materials, supplies, equipment, and services for use by County agencies, departments, districts, and affiliates, and performs other related duties as required. This position is located in Riverside. The Buyer I is distinguished from the advanced journey level class of Buyer II by the latter's assignment for complex value analysis, purchase forecasting, and negotiation of major contracts involving the purchasing of the full range product line of commodities and services. Buyer II's may serve in a lead capacity over support personnel. All Buyer position allocations and incumbent assignments must be approved in advance by Purchasing Department management. Advancement to the next level is obtained by competitive selection through an open recruitment. The most competitive candidates will possess the following professional experience with: At least 1 or more years of Peoplesoft Financials experience At least 2 or more years of vendor relations experience At least 2 or more years of experience using Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) At least 2 or more years of clerical/administrative experience This position has a 9/80 schedule: M-F, Non Pay week Friday off; shift hours will either be 7:00am

• 4:30pm, 7:30am
• 5:00pm or 8:00am
• 5:30pm. Meet The Team! RUHS-BH Website
• The Material Management division is responsible for the procurement and distribution of goods and services to Behavioral Health programs throughout the County of Riverside. Our missions is to deliver efficient, high quality customer service to the department in order to support services to the community.
• Research and conduct comparisons on products, services and vendors; compare availability, quality and cost factors for departmental needs.
• Review requisitions for completeness, accuracy, cost effectiveness, and adherence to standards, codes, County policies, and procedures.
• Research, develop, and maintain vendor product information lists, which includes ongoing review of product information and current prices of commodities and services.
• Perform routine market, total life cycle cost, value, price, and limited cost analysis.
• Prepare departmental requests for proposal and/or bid; obtain bids by telephone, letter, personal contact, or formal bid procedures; compare and analyze quotations in order to determine qualified low bid.
• Determine vendors from which purchases will be made and issue purchase orders; review standing purchase orders for renewal; review departmental blanket orders to ensure low-cost emergency vendor service.
• Investigate complaints by departments and resolve delivery or other problems; may supervise support staff.

Experience:

One year of satisfactory performance as a Buyer Trainee with the County of Riverside or equivalent experience to the County of Riverside Buyer Trainee classification. (Major coursework in purchasing, business administration, economics, or a related field may be substituted for up to one year of buying experience on the basis of 30 semester or 45 quarter units of education equaling one year of full-time buying experience.)

OR Experience:

One year of purchasing or procurement experience that included processing purchase requisitions and purchase orders, obtaining vendor quotes, and coordinating with Purchasing/Procurement staff to obtain quotes or bids for routine purchases.

Knowledge of:

The methods, principles, and practices of purchasing/material management and of governmental purchasing; County purchasing policies and practices; product standards of operating departments; products, commodities, and services used within one or more commodity groupings; methods and resources used in researching and analyzing commodities and services; competitive bid practices and procedures; business accounting practices; methods used in evaluating vendor capability and performance.

Ability to:

Work independently; read and interpret rules and regulations; collect, organize, and evaluate product or service information, identify alternative solutions, and project consequences of decisions and recommendations; compose clear and concise reports, recommendations, and correspondence; compare and analyze quotations; prepare fundamental purchasing specifications (RFP's) for assigned products or services or for an assigned department; communicate in a clear and persuasive manner; establish and maintain effective relationships with department officials, company/vendor representatives, and staff members. For questions regarding this recruitment Please Contact Alexander Jones at 951-955-4656 or Aljones@rivco.org . Please allow 1-2 business days for a response to general inquiries.