Strategic Purchasing Specialist

This position is responsible for:

• managing the effective and efficient purchasing of components, commodities, services, and capital equipment for the sites in North America.
• Focus on long term vision for company and commodities.
• Industry knowledge expert
• The implementation of the initiatives of Global Purchasing.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of suppliers in area of responsibility/categories.
• Formulates strategies for categories and serves as subject-matter expert on key categories of goods and services.
• Develops and executes action plans to meet targets for cost, quality, and delivery.
• Negotiates prices, terms, and conditions of agreements and executes agreements with suppliers.
• Interfaces with Group Legal on agreements and approves executive contract summaries for Group Legal.
• Evaluates industry trends to determine potential impacts and initiates actions to ensure continuity of supply chain.
• Conducts semiannual audits of key suppliers to assess cost, quality, and delivery.
• Investigates potential suppliers for optimum alignment of capabilities with requirements.
• Develops domestic and international long-term relationships with suppliers.
• Mentors and coaches operational buyers on key accountabilities.
• Manages purchases of goods and services for sites and completes transactions for purchasing in SAP.
• Coordinates agreements for goods and services covered by local, national, or global agreements.
• Serves as interface between sites and suppliers to ensure prompt resolution of issues (delivery, quality, etc.).
• Creates materials in SAP and maintains database of materials with respect to prices, sources, etc.
• Organizes documentation to create or to update vendors and coordinates documentation with corporate office.
• Researches discrepancies between invoices and purchase orders and approves invoices for accounts payable.
• Validates local contracts and obtains certificates of liability insurance for projects.
• Ensures compliance with policies and procedures of Group Legal and Global Purchasing.
• Performs other duties as required to support objectives of sites and Global Purchasing.

 

Your Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree from a 4-year college or university.
• Proficiency with Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience with SAP preferred.
• Strong ability to communicate clearly and effectively and to provide world-class customer service.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills and ability to prioritize and to simultaneously handle multiple tasks.
• Must fluently read and speak English.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in procurement.
• Experience in manufacturing preferred.
• Commodity management
• Contract negotiations