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As the United States Postal Service continues its evolution as a forward-thinking, fast-acting company capable of providing quality products and services for its customers, it continues to remember and celebrate its roots as the first national network of communications that literally bound a nation together. Ours is a proud heritage built on a simple yet profound mission: Bind the nation together. Connect every American, every door, every business, everywhere through the simple act of delivering mail and packages. This idea of universal service is at the heart of the $1.4 trillion industry that employs more than 7.5 million people and drives commerce, plays an integral part in every American community and remains the greatest value of any post in the world. The Postal Service delivers more mail to more addresses in a larger geographical area than any other post in the world. The Postal Service delivers to more than 157 million addresses in every state, city and town in this country. Everyone living in the United States and its territories has access to postal products and services and pays the same postage regardless of their location. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

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1. Performs needs assessment to identify customers needs for services, suppliers, and equipment; uses assessment to determine requirements, and solicitation criteria, including production needs, quantities, delivery requirements and industry to be sourced.

2. Develops purchasing plans and prepares solicitations and contracts; determines specific contract language and selects contract type.

3. Develops total cost of ownership models for customers, including material and/or services flow, usage, and process; determines value and non-value added to the service and/or product for the customer; develops asset recovery programs.

4. Conducts supplier value and cost analysis to address logistics, pricing, leverage, competitive advantage, and other industry factors related to purchase; performs supplier capability assessment, past performance reviews, and other review methods to create and develop supplier performance data.

5. Conducts customer satisfaction evaluations and gather supplier performance data to resolve specification problems, determine production capabilities and responsiveness, monitor quality, obtain feedback, and to support decision- making.

6. Performs market and industry trend analysis to expand and improve the supplier base and to determine availability of services, supplies equipment, and producers; benchmark industry for best usage practices and offer alternatives.

7. Requests and evaluates supplier proposals for satisfying selection criteria, awarding contracts, leverage opportunities, and pricing data.

8. Conducts negotiations on price, technical requirements, terms, and conditions of the contract; obtains audits and pricing reports where needed to develop negotiation strategy.

9. Makes supplier selections and performs contract management, including supplier performance reviews and customer satisfaction evaluations.

10. Manages projects to include planning, determining resource requirements, developing timelines, risk analysis, monitoring progress, providing technical guidance and feedback.

11. Complies with Postal Service supplier diversity planning and sourcing strategies.

12. Provides technical direction and guidance on purchasing and material logistics activities.

13. May oversee the activities of lower level employees or teams, when assigned.

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Purchasing and SM Specialist

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