Contract Integrity Specialist

Highmark Health • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

GENERAL OVERVIEW: This job reviews and approves of non contract requests before they are turned into purchase orders. Ensures purchases are compliant to our contracts and identifying new contracting opportunities. Communicates effectively with the Organization's customers, educating them on the transition of non contract requests, re-directing them to contracted products that they should be utilizing. Purchase requests are entered into Meperia, which results in the population of the Coupa item file. This ensures accuracy of ordering, allocation of expense, ability to accurately pull spend data from Coupa for sourcing events, and accurately directs the orders to the appropriate procurement staff member for ordering.

Requirements

• Associate's degree
• 3-5 years relevant experience in lieu of Associate's degree
• Knowledge of Commodity Codes
• Contract language, Terms and Conditions
• Must have advanced Excel Skills
• General Product knowledge or ability to do research on product to determine ideal commodity code
• Effective communication with hospital based customers and sourcing staff within the department

Nice To Haves

• 3-5 Years of experience in Procurement

Responsibilities

• Price File Review - Review price file submissions from sourcing for accuracy and consistency in the following areas: supplier name, product description, commodity code, contract term dates, and for contract updates any net new products being added to the contract
• Non Contracted / Item File Purchase Order Activity Review - Review items presently in the Coupa item file without a contract assigned to them. Products should either be transitioned to a contracted equivalent or sourcing be alerted of potential contract opportunities. Communication with the using departments is critical in the event of a change to the contracted product.
• Non Contract Requisition Approval - Items over $3000 (subject to change) - entered into the Coupa approval process by the procurement specialist when they receive an order with a product having a unit cost of $3000 or greater that they cannot find a contract for or have knowledge of a competitive product that the item should be changed to. Validate based on their contract knowledge and/or confer with sourcing before approving the order as requested.
• Price Discrepancy Investigation - investigate and resolve items in the Coupa item file that when invoiced the supplier is billing the product at a difference in what is believed to be the contracted cost. The end result could be an error in the development of the price file (as described in item 1) or the supplier is not recognizing the committed contract price when submitting invoices.
• Contract Activation - with oversight from sourcing there may be opportunities to activate a contract or develop local contract to cover areas pertaining to repair and service
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees