Contracts/Procurement Specialist

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Contract/Procurement Specialist to join our team! In this role you will get to experience end-to-end procurement process and supply chain management.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Oversee procurement activities from approved requisition through sourcing, evaluation, award, purchase order administration and closeout, ensuring that required stage-gates are followed.
• Review procurement documents prepared by Buyers, Procurement Coordinators, project teams and support personnel for completeness, accuracy, approvals and procedural compliance.
• Monitor procurement plans, sourcing schedules, workload priorities, cycle times, pending approvals, key risks and delivery dates, providing clear dashboards and exception reports.
• Validate sourcing strategies, procurement methods and bidder lists, and oversee supplier registration, prequalification, due diligence and compliance screening.
• Review solicitation packages and oversee bidder communications, clarifications, addenda, submission controls, confidentiality and fair treatment of participating suppliers.
• Ensure technical evaluations are completed by accountable technical teams and review commercial evaluations, bid comparisons and Bid Analysis Summaries for accuracy and justification.
• Challenge unresolved deviations, abnormal pricing, inadequate competition, unsupported assumptions and material commercial risks, and confirm all required approvals before award or commitment.
• Monitor purchase order progress, delivery risks, amendments, documentation, invoicing issues and closeout actions, ensuring that procurement records remain complete and audit-ready.
• Provide technical guidance and quality feedback to procurement personnel, escalate non-compliance or supplier-performance concerns and recommend process improvements.

• What Required Skills You'll Bring:
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Economics, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum five years of relevant experience in procurement, purchasing, sourcing or supply-chain activities.
• Demonstrated responsibility for overseeing end-to-end procurement processes and reviewing the work of Buyers, Coordinators or project procurement personnel.
• Strong knowledge of competitive sourcing, supplier qualification, commercial evaluation, purchase order administration, procurement controls and closeout.
• Ability to assess sourcing risks, pricing concerns, procedural gaps, supplier risks and unsupported award recommendations using sound independent judgment.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, written communication, coordination and stakeholder-management skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• High standards of ethics, integrity, confidentiality, impartiality and professional conduct.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and enterprise resource planning, e-procurement, reporting and document-management systems, with the ability to work across multidisciplinary teams.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Experience within an engineering, construction, infrastructure, project-management or professional-services environment.
• Experience monitoring procurement portfolios, status dashboards, compliance indicators, supplier governance and procurement cycle times.
• Professional procurement or supply-chain certification, such as CIPS, MCIPS, CPSM or an equivalent qualification.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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