Senior Procurement Specialist (Onsite, Overland Park, KS)

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For more than 50 years,we'vebeen a healthcare software company developing technology and providing services in the behavioral health, human services, andPost-Acutemarkets. We collaborate with organizations and partner with our clients across the care spectrumtoanticipatechallenges,identifyobstaclesand recognize new opportunities as healthcare evolves. We continuously strive to advance our Netsmart technologies and offerings beyond the EHR by embracingnewtechnologytrends that empower healthcare professionals to provide the best possible care.

Senior Procurement Specialist

The Senior Procurement Specialist is responsible for managing and overseeing the organization's end-to-end purchasing and purchase order (PO) processes. This role owns the internal requisition workflow, particularly for purchases requiring formal approvals, ensuring requests are accurate, compliant, and efficiently routed through review and authorization. Acting as the central point of coordination, the Senior Procurement Specialist creates, codes, and monitors POs, presents them for approval, and works closely with Legal, Enterprise IT, Treasury, and business stakeholders to mitigate risk, support cashflow planning, and advance large or complex purchases to completion.

In addition, this role manages vendor onboarding and maintenance, ensuring proper documentation, tax classification, and banking information are established and maintained.The Senior Procurement Specialist partners closely with Accounts Payable to ensure seamless PO and invoice processing, monitors purchasing card activity, and provides monthly reporting and insights on procurement activity. With growing global operations, this position also supports India based purchasing and invoicing efforts, helping maintain consistent, well governed procurement workflows across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage operations of corporate purchasing system
• Manage and track internal purchasing requisitions
• Create, code and monitor purchase orders (POs)
• Present requested POs to management for approval
• Work closely with Legal, Enterprise IT, other stakeholders to ensure risk mitigation on new contracts and partnerships; help push large purchases to finalization
• Work with Treasury on cash flow forecasting related to PO spend.
• Complete set up and maintenance of vendor electronic payment information
• Complete 3rd party contractor onboarding approval and maintenance of the term
• Assist with India internal purchasing and invoicing operations.

Qualifications

Required

• Ability to work onsite and in person at our Overland Park, KS Office
• At least 4 years corporate purchasing work experience
• At least 2 years corporate contracts work experience
• At least 2 years accounting systems and processes work experience
• Excellent time management skills
• High attention to detail with excellent organization skills
• High level of professionalism with internal and external clients
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook

Preferred

• At least 1 year Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms such as Financial Force work experience
• At least 1 year cloud-based workflow automation platform such as ServiceNow work experience
• Experience with enterprise systems such as Salesforce
• Experience using SAP Concur for purchasing and expense workflows

Netsmart is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates. All employment decisions at Netsmart, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, promotion and transfer, are based on performance, qualifications, abilities, education and experience. Netsmart does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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