Job Openings at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Specific duties include the following:

• Manage supplier relationships: leverage Church enterprise expenditures to qualify, negotiate, select, and establish legal contracts with vendors of products and services at the best value for the Church. Ensure supplier performance of contracted terms and conditions.
• Understand and articulate customer and internal partner needs: document, design solutions for, and ensure that both product and service needs of sponsoring organizations are satisfied at the best possible value; interact with vendors, consultants and professional groups; serve as a product and service industry authority.
• Meet procurement needs: Use Purchasing tools including eMarket, PeopleSoft, and AX/Dynamics 365 to accept requisitions, create purchase orders, expedite orders, and create catalogs of frequently used goods and services.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and 4 years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience required
• Requires seasoned supply-chain knowledge and experience, and experience in supplier relationship management, strategic sourcing, outsourcing or purchasing. 
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts. 
• Up to 15% domestic and international travel for up to 2 weeks at time. 
• Preferred Qualifications: CPM or CPSM certification.

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Key Responsibilities

• Local Employer Engagement & Accountability
• Be an ambassador across all private and public sectors to represent the character, value, and capabilities of BYUPW students. 
• Develop and maintain a strong network of local and international employers who willingly provide a minimum of 2,000 job opportunities annually for prepared BYUPW students living within a 50 kilometer radius of a Global Education Center. Must be able to develop relationships of trust with business and government leaders in a way that represents the high standards of BYUPW and the Church. 
• Coordinate job fairs and open houses to introduce employers and other resources to meet and know prepared BYUPW students.
• Listen to and understand employer feedback loops to ensure alignment between student preparedness and employer expectations.
• With no over promising, track employer satisfaction and job placement success to improve future opportunities.
• Career Coaching with Students
• Support students throughout the job search process pipeline.  Prepare students to be confident in their job search, to be hard working, honest, have initiative and set goals for a life-time career path. 
• Assist with resumes, interview preparation, and career pathway planning based on individual readiness.
• Develop a network of local mentors of established LDS professionals who can guide students and also open doors for prepared students. 
• Collaborate with the Success Network to ensure students are engaged in relevant work-readiness programs.
• Conduct Skill Trainings
• Ensure quality job search training to develop soft skills of initiative, leadership, teamwork and ethical behavior. Lead training sessions on job readiness skills and coordinate with platform development teams to ensure tools meet student needs.
• Use employer feedback to tailor training content and delivery.
• Coordinate with Career Development Team (SLC)
• Work closely with the Career Development Team (SLC) and Institutional Research teams in Salt Lake City to identify opportunities and funding for job opportunities.
• Contribute to shared goals by providing insights from employer and student engagement.
• Engage in weekly meetings to review progress on achieving goals with employers and students.
• Participate in strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Report on GEC Metrics
• Track and report on key student employment metrics as defined by the Career Development Team in SLC.
• Use PowerBI and other systems to monitor job readiness, placement, student progression, and employer engagement.
• Provide regular updates that support strategic decision-making and program improvements.

Qualifications

• Must be worthy to hold a current temple recommend
• Bachelor’s degree required or 5 to 10 years of managing business operations.
• Minimum five years of P&L experience, responsible for business operations.
• Must feel confident engaging with high level business and community leaders.
• Experience in growing businesses and achieving goals is highly valued. Experience with career development and training is a plus.
• Fluent in English at a professional level (reading, writing, listening and speaking).
• Excellent interpersonal, writing, speaking, presentation, time management, and data analysis skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and learning management platforms preferred.

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Responsibilities

• 80%   Under general direction, provides key support for functional groups, including performance of a wide variety of specialized clerical functions involving compiling and arranging data, making computations, laying out and preparing reports, processing and coding documents.
• 10% Maintaining specialized and comprehensive records and filing. Sets up and prepares statistical reports.
• 10%   Resolves discrepancies and may communicate with a variety of administrative and professional employees within and outside the organization.

Qualifications

• Must be worthy of a temple recommend
• Post High School education administration with minimum 2-4 years of experience in position or specialization or equivalent combination of education or experience
• Ability to apply advanced skills to the position or specialization; ability to adapt procedures, processes, tools, equipment and techniques to accomplish the requirements of the position; ability to perform duties and tasks of substantial variety and complexity; ability to perform assignments broad in nature and usually require originality and ingenuity.
• May serve as a resource to others in the resolution of complex problems and issues.
• Ability to work under general supervision; demonstrates experience and judgment to plan and accomplish assigned tasks and goals.
• May orient, train, assign and check the work of other volunteers.
• May perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.