R10092896 Field Sourcing Specialist (Open)

Location:

Goodlettsville, TN - Management

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Airgas is Hiring for a Field Sourcing Specialist in Goodlettsville, TN!

We are looking for you!

• Comprehensive Family Benefits: Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.

• Support for Parents: We offer up to 14-week paid child birth benefits to support growing families.

• Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.

• Early Access: Your benefits start after just 30 days of employment.

Recruiter: Adrienne (Adrienne.Ogletree-Adrien-SC@airliquide.com)

Provide dedicated professional sourcing and other value creation services to assigned business units or operating zone to support and achieve safety, efficiency, compliance and savings initiatives and objectives. Specific activities include competitive bidding, proposal analysis, negotiation of price and commercial terms, vendor management and asset sales.

Job Duties:

• Foster and coordinate all communication between Air Liquide and bidders.

• Assist in developing technical specifications and/or scopes of work with internal customers.

• Evaluate, qualify and recommend bidders.

• Develop and issue formal requests for quotes (RFQ's).

• Guide job walks and bid clarification meetings with internal customers.

• Issue clarifications or amendments to the specification or work scope to all bidders.

• Complete commercial bid tabulations.

• Complete technical bid tabulations including analysis with internal customers.

• Negotiate final price and commercial terms.

• Make sourcing recommendations to internal customers.

• Develop and finalize materials and services contracts as required.

• Identify and address business risks during the bidding and sourcing process.

• Ensure that all contractors are appropriately pre-screened for safety, and initiate the contractor pre-screening process for new contractors as required.

• Confirm that hold harmless and indemnification documentation is in place as well as a current certificate of insurance is on file with all contractors. Initiate and negotiate hold harmless and indemnification documentation for new contractors as required.

• Confirm that critical suppliers are on the approved supplier list, and initiate the critical supplier qualification process for new suppliers as required.

• Attend and actively participate in budget planning meetings for assigned BU or zone.

• Actively participate in TAR planning meetings.

• Guide TAR procurement planning process and pre-TAR supplier site visits.

• Maintain TAR activity tracking sheet for each major TAR.

• Maintain current listing of active and upcoming tactical (capital and expense) sourcing initiatives.

• Develop business plan strategies / opportunities for BU or zone spend in unmanaged categories.

• Document and report all cost savings associated with sourcing activities.

• Provide supporting documentation on sourcing activities as backup to purchase orders.

• Maintain current listing of contractors utilized in assigned BU or zone.

• Advocate the use of managed suppliers (frame agreements).

• Report events of non-compliance (leakage) of frame agreements to appropriate category manager.

• Identify opp