Purchasing Managers
ManagementAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Purchasing Managers with an AI automation risk score of 17%. Analysis includes 18 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
- Communicating with People Outside the Organization
- Getting Information
- Working with Computers
Required Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Written Comprehension
- Fluency of Ideas
- Deductive Reasoning
Key Tasks
Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures.
Arrange for disposal of surplus materials.
Review purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.
Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.
Locate vendors of materials, equipment or supplies, and interview them to determine product availability and terms of sales.
Prepare bid awards requiring board approval.
Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in buying, selling, and distributing materials, equipment, machinery, and supplies.
Review, evaluate, and approve specifications for issuing and awarding bids.
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data