How You Will Make a Difference
A Procurement Specialist fills a remote role in MountainSeed’s Procurement Department. The Procurement Specialist will contribute by supporting the Procurement Manager with the responsibility of providing procurement technical advice to banks in conjunction with agreed procurement strategies and monitoring day-to-day appraisal orders. The role involves extensive verbal and written communication while working in a fast-paced environment.
In This Role, You’ll Get To:
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Build and maintain relationships with a dedicated list of clients
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Attend client onboarding meetings and offer sound advice to new clients
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Provide world-class customer service to all clients, vendors, and co-workers
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Participate in client calls or client meetings as requested by the client
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Work closely with the Customer Success Team to communicate information about the client
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Provide accurate and timely responses to clients and appraiser messages and questions
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Escalate difficult, complex, or unusual assignments to the Procurement Manager
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Review each new order for clarity and completeness, and obtain additional information from the financial institution as needed
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Select and assign appraisers based on policies and procedures.
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Assist team members with orders as needed
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Adhere to all Procurement processes and procedure
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Respond to bid questions from the client or appraiser
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Review and deliver bids to the clients
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Request required documents or information necessary to facilitate the appraisal order.
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Source appraisal bids for complex orders as needed
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Follow up with appraisers as needed to ensure timely delivery of reports
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Pass on all appraiser updates to the clients in a timely manner, as appropriate
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Attend weekly team meetings
This opportunity is for you if you have/are:
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Appraisal experience working or financial institutions and/or real-estate appraisal ordering experience from a financial institution
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Certified General appraiser license is preferred
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Demonstrated knowledge of valuation methods, techniques and forms including an understanding of property rights (i.e., fee simple, leased fee, and leasehold)
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Knowledge of, and experience working with USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) and the myriad of laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines governing the appraisal valuation process at financial institutions, including the primary federal financial institution regulators’ regulations and guidelines, as well as state appraisal and appraisal-management-company statutes and board rules
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Proactive client-service mentality and desire to deliver first-class service to clients
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Attention to detail, strong written and verbal communication skills, and efficiency in responding to written messages through a computer system.
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Affinity for working in a fast-paced environment with continuous focus on self- and company-improvement
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Technological literacy and mastery of navigating standard office software
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
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Review appraisal orders in a timely manner
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Technological literacy and mastery of navigating standard office software
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Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
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Excellent time and management skills
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Excellent written and oral communication skills
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Demonstration of Core Values
PERFORMANCE METRICS:
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Scorecards completed in accordance with policy
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Team Production Units
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Customer Service Audits
COMPETENCIES:
Customer-Service Focused/Self-Starter/Attention to Detail/Teamwork/Information Gathering/ Analytical Thinking/Technical Expertise/Results Oriented/Self Confident/Problem Solving/Stress Management
As a MountainSeed employee you will enjoy benefits such as 3 weeks PTO, 13 company paid holidays, paid parental leave, and a flexible working environment. Medical, Dental, Vision and 401K plans are available first of the month following 30 days of employment. This position will be hybrid. The office is located at 2100 Powers Ferry Road, Atlanta 30339.
ABOUT MOUNTAINSEED:
Guided by our mission to provide opportunity and help people thrive using their God-given abilities, MountainSeed takes a fresh approach to tech-enabled real estate services. We serve our clients in several arenas, including due diligence-related services, decision-support analytical tools, and capital market solutions
MountainSeed MarketPlace
As the largest commercial real estate services marketplace in the nation, we have experience with all types of commercial real estate services. We enable financial institutions with outsourced commercial and residential appraisal management and review services. We also provide additional appraisal-related needs including evaluations and environmental reports, property inspections, tenant risk assessments and more. With an experienced full-time staff of commercial and residential appraisal reviewers located in every US state, we combine the expertise of dedicated, local reviewers with the power of national coverage for a seamless experience that delivers the best of both worlds.
MountainSeed Analytics
With access to nearly 1 million property records and more being added daily, the MountainSeed Analytics platform provides real estate data insights that are both accurate and timely. Sourced directly from property commercial real estate reports, more than 100 data fields are tracked by geography and property type – providing insights into both large and small markets across the US.
OUR PURPOSE is to provide opportunities that help people thrive using their God-given abilities.
OUR CORE VALUES
Be a Self-Starter.
Constantly search out opportunities to improve yourself, your team, and the business. Have the courage to identify problems, solve them, or tell someone who can. Work with a true sense of urgency. Take action, take responsibility, and finish it on time.
Be a Team Player.
Encourage others and celebrate when they succeed. Be willing to pitch in when someone needs help, prioritizing team results above individual results. We believe MountainSeed will succeed to the extent that we can create healthy, high-performing teams.
Don’t be an optimist or a pessimist. Be a patriot.
Everything at MountainSeed is not good, and everything is not bad. Passionately seek the greater good for the organization, and be brutally honest about what’s working and what’s not working. MountainSeed isn’t loved because it’s great. MountainSeed will be great because it’s loved.
Do it Right.
Be the kind of person who does things right even when no one’s watching, even if your boss won’t catch it, and even if the client won’t notice. No one’s perfect, but be solid and have integrity.
Be Humble.
Ask first how you can add value. Humility gets harder the more power you have. Invert the org chart – serve those you lead. At MountainSeed, the best idea wins no matter where it comes from. Be intellectually humble, the kind of person that can change your mind in the face of new information or a different perspective.
MountainSeed is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.