Procure-to-Pay Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, evaluate, and issue purchase request for proposals/quotes as a result of customer requests/requisitions.
• Identify and select vendor to procure requisitioned commodities; meeting criteria, such as price, quantity, quality and delivery dates and specs.
• Challenges vendors for best cost and delivery of items purchased.
• Responsible for issuing purchase orders and ensuring orders and purchase requests are accurate.
• Maintains vendor relationships ensuring best pricing and order preference is received.
• Analyze data, draw conclusions, and communicate solutions to the team. Send follow ups to the stakeholders for clarification, if necessary.
• Targets year-over-year cost reductions through planned and/or spot negotiations.
• Communicate timing and process cadence to internal and external customers.
• Resolve purchasing and invoicing problems with vendors.
• Support central intake function to ensure procurement request/sourcing projects are created for or routed to appropriate buying channels and monitor workflows to appropriate procurement teams.
• Ensure prioritization and deliverables are timely throughout the engagement process.
• Provide internal customers with high level overview of buying channels options.
• Responsible for ensuring that Procurement and Purchasing requests are acknowledged, reviewed, logged in, verified, and distributed in a timely manner by conducting review of documentation associated with each request and engage with internal and external stake holders, (quotes, order forms, etc.).
• Create and maintain SOPs and process documentation.
• Perform other duties as requested.