Purchasing Coordinator

Purchasing Coordinator

Company: Arapahoe Community College

Job Location: Littleton, 80160

Category: Business and Financial Services

Type: Full-Time

Salary: $60,500.00 - $68,750.00 Annually

Location: Littleton, CO

Job Type: Administrator/Professional-Technical (Full-Time)

Job Number: 00345

Division: Finance & Administrative Services

Department: Purchasing

FLSA: Exempt

ACC Careers: Where You Can Move Mountains

Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains sits one of the oldest community colleges in Colorado, Arapahoe Community College. With a rich history of educational excellence, ACC embraces a culture that values diversity, individualized support, and unwavering commitment to student success, without exception.

Job Summary

Arapahoe Community College is seeking a detail-oriented and service-focused Purchasing Coordinator to support the procurement of goods and services across the college. This role plays a critical part in ensuring compliance with State procurement rules while helping departments efficiently meet their purchasing needs.

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Purchasing, the Purchasing Coordinator serves as a campus resource and subject-matter expert for purchasing methods, systems, and workflows. The role balances hands-on transactional work with analysis, vendor coordination, training, and continuous improvement-all in a collaborative, customer-focused environment.

This position is ideal for a purchasing professional who enjoys problem-solving, working cross-functionally, and helping organizations maximize value while maintaining regulatory integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and process procurements by evaluating purchase requests, determining appropriate procurement methods, and ensuring compliance with State rules, CCCS requirements, and internal policies.
• Manage competitive solicitations and vendor interactions, including documented quotes, researching products, evaluating bids, and communicating outcomes.
• Administer purchasing programs and systems, including oversight of the travel card program, support of the purchasing card program, official function requests, and maintenance of accurate procurement records.
• Provide college-wide support, training, and customer service by advising faculty and staff on procurement processes, delivering training, and collaborating on purchasing projects.
• Analyze spending and support planning efforts through expenditure analysis, cost-saving recommendations, reporting, audits, and participation in the annual budgeting process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree OR equivalent combination of education and/or relevant purchasing experience. The equivalency will not count towards the experience requirements listed below.
• Relevant purchasing experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Ability to identify problems, determine accuracy and relevancy of information, and use sound judgement to evaluate and make recommendations.
• Ability to organize work, set priorities, determine resource requirements, coordinate with other areas, monitor progress, and evaluate outcomes.

Application Instructions

All applicants must submit:

1. Resume
2. Detailed letter of interest (cover letter) addressing the job announcement. Please include any experiences you may have embedding equity and inclusion in your work, see below.

At ACC, we seek to hire candidates who are committed to fostering respectful, welcoming, and supportive environments for all individuals. In your cover letter, please describe how you have worked to create such environments in your current or previous roles, and share what this commitment means to you in your professional practice.

Reach out to us at HRrecruitment@arapahoe.edu if you have any questions.

ACC seeks applicants who understand and have first-hand experience working with diverse populations, which may include but are not limited to, historically marginalized populations such as people of color, LGBTQ+ community members, veterans, first generation graduates, and people with disabilities.