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89 recently expanded its Procurement Services department under new leadership . Julie Ann Jones joined Drexel , the 15th largest private university in the US , last January as Assistant Vice President of Procurement Services . What brought Jones to Drexel was the opportunity to build a procurement department at a university that has the institutional will to make meaningful change to the way it does business , including the development of a more socially responsible and economically inclusive procurement strategy .
The procurement space at Drexel involves an annual spend of approximately $ 350mn across a diverse range of departments , and transitioning this function through the prism of social responsibility and economic inclusion is no small undertaking . However , Jones has the necessary experience in spades – having engaged with suppliers during her seven years working in IT and on supply chain systems at Philadelphia Housing Authority and while serving as Executive Director , Project Management & Procurement at La Salle University .
In effecting this institutional change , Jones placed a premium on pragmatism
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