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The successful candidate will combine sound commercial judgment with operational discipline, analytical capability, and the confidence to raise questions and escalate concerns when requests do not align with company policy, competitive sourcing expectations, or business objectives. \nJob Responsibilities \nEnd-to-End Procurement Coordination: Coordinate procurement activities for assigned goods and services, including intake review, requisition processing, sourcing activities, supplier selection, vendor onboarding, purchase order issuance, and transaction closeout. Maintain timely and accurate purchasing activity while ensuring alignment with business priorities, procurement policies, and approval requirements. \nSourcing & Competitive Bidding: Issue RFQs, RFPs, and other competitive sourcing events. Partner with stakeholders to define business and technical requirements, execute sourcing strategies, evaluate supplier qualifications, facilitate supplier evaluations, document selection rationale, and facilitate timely supplier award decisions. \nCommercial Negotiation & Contract Review: Assist with commercial negotiations related to pricing, rate cards, discounts, service levels, implementation commitments, delivery terms, payment terms, renewals, and other commercial conditions to optimize value, mitigate risk, and advance business objectives. Partner with Legal and functional reviewers on master agreements, statements of work, software and subscription agreements, professional services agreements, order forms, amendments, and renewals. \nCategory & Supplier Management: Contribute to category planning and supplier-management activities by reviewing spend, contract expirations, supplier concentration, stakeholder demand, service requirements, and supplier-market conditions. Monitor supplier KPIs and service expectations, assist with supplier business reviews, help resolve performance escalations, and coordinate corrective-action plans when necessary. Identify opportunities to consolidate spend, improve commercial terms, reduce supplier risk, standardize requirements, or improve service delivery. \nSupplier Onboarding & Cross-Functional Due Diligence: Facilitate supplier onboarding activities and coordinate required due diligence reviews with applicable business and control functions. Confirm that required documentation, risk assessments, approvals, insurance evidence, tax information, banking validation, conflicts disclosures, and other onboarding requirements are complete before transactions are initiated. \nStakeholder Partnership & Commercial Guidance: Work with business stakeholders to translate operational needs into sourcing and purchasing requirements, share practical options, and help develop commercially sound recommendations. Assist with reviewing sole-source requests, incomplete specifications, noncompetitive proposals, retroactive purchasing activity, policy exceptions, and other requests that may create cost, risk, or control concerns. Escalate issues as needed while maintaining positive and solution-oriented stakeholder relationships. \nProcurement Controls & Documentation: Apply procurement policies, competitive-bidding requirements, delegation-of-authority thresholds, signature protocols, segregation-of-duties requirements, and supplier-master controls. Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready documentation supporting sourcing decisions, supplier selection, approvals, contracts, purchase orders, policy exceptions, and procurement transactions. \nInvoice, Receipt, and Payment Exception Resolution: Partner with Accounts Payable, Accounting, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to investigate and resolve purchase order, receipt, pricing, invoice, and payment exceptions tied to procurement transactions in a timely manner. \nProcess Improvement & Technology Enablement: Identify opportunities to streamline intake, procurement workflows, user experience, and internal controls through effective use of technology, automation, data analytics, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities. Promote adoption of digital tools that enhance process efficiency, reporting, compliance monitoring, and decision-making, and provide guidance to business users on procurement procedures, systems, and best practices. \nPeople Manager \nNo \nEducation, Experience, and Skills \nBA/BS degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. \n3-5 years of progressively responsible experience in procurement, purchasing, sourcing, supplier management, or a related discipline. \nExperience executing sourcing activities and high-volume purchasing operations. \nDemonstrated ability to execute RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, and competitive bid processes from requirements definition through supplier selection and award. \nExperience negotiating pricing, statements of work, service levels, payment terms, renewals, and other commercial contract terms in partnership with Legal and business stakeholders. \nStrong organizational and problem-solving skills. \nStrong attention to detail and commitment to accurate, complete, and audit-ready documentation. \nAbility to multi-task effectively and perform in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. \nProficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to analyze supplier proposals, spend data, pricing models, and large transactional data sets. \nExperience with NetSuite purchasing, vendor, and reporting workflows. \nExperience in biotech, healthcare, life sciences, or another regulated industry. \nKnowledge of SOC 2 reports, information-security assessments, privacy reviews, business-continuity reviews, and third-party risk-management processes. \nAbility to work with appropriate guidance, exercise sound commercial judgment, and escalate concerns when needed. \nCertificates, Licenses, Registrations \nRelevant professional certification, such as Lean Six Sigma, CPSM, C.P.M., CSCP, CIPS, or an equivalent procurement or supply-chain credential preferred. \nPay Transparency, Budgeted Range\n$78,000—$90,000 USD\nA culture that plays to win, because patients are counting on us\nAt GeneDx, we're driven by urgency and purpose: helping patients get diagnosed earlier. Our mission, to empower everyone to live their healthiest life through genomics, drives our team to make a tangible impact each day - and shapes our culture where high standards, strong teamwork, and meaningful ownership are the norm. We act with intention, support one another, and deliver work we're proud to put our names on.\nHere’s what you can expect day to day:\n1. Play like a champion (step up, redefine what’s possible, own it)\nWe bring energy, focus, and a bias for action. We step up, take initiative, and deliver on our commitments - with quality, speed, and care.\n2. Think bigger (stretch beyond, courage not consensus)\nWe push past the obvious. We challenge assumptions, raise the bar, and make thoughtful, decisive calls - choosing progress over perfection.\n3. Grow fast (be curious, speak up, be agile)\nWe stay curious, ask questions, and share direct feedback with respect. We adapt quickly and keep learning through collaboration and continuous improvement.\nIf you’re motivated by meaningful work, a fast-moving environment, and teammates who care deeply about outcomes, you’ll thrive at GeneDx.\nAt GeneDx, we believe in taking care of our people. We provide competitive compensation and benefits that reflect local market practices and legal requirements in each country where we operate, helping employees thrive both professionally and personally.\nWe welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law.\nGeneDx is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.\n\n All privacy policy information can be found here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8499,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Biotechnology","Health Care","Molecular Diagnostics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T19:09:26Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":1,"median_offered_wage_usd":162500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":75,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.83,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":21,"expected_fill_days":39,"reasons":["conf:3","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":90000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/genedx-senior-procurement-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/genedx-senior-procurement-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T02:13:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3367,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1702},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1702"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgenedx-senior-procurement-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgenedx-senior-procurement-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgenedx-senior-procurement-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/genedx-senior-procurement-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgenedx-senior-procurement-specialist"}]}