Procurement Specialist

The Role

The Procurement Specialist for Healthcare Linen Services Group is responsible for the day-to-day purchasing related activities, vendor management, and contract compliance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and communicate effectively with Vendors, Procurement, Finance, Commercial team, Plant Sites, and other HLSG cross functional teams.
• Balance multiple tasks while improving the efficiency of our Procurement team, managing competing priorities effectively.
• Purchase order review and approval in the ERP system, NetSuite, and overall vendor management.
• Develops a business relationship with functional stakeholders and solicits feedback on sourcing and vendor performance.
• Supports the development of cross-functional teams by identifying internal customers and stakeholders for inclusion; interfaces with internal customers to understand requirements and resolves issues; involves key stakeholders in sourcing development and execution; informs Sr. Procurement Manager of conflicts between stakeholder requirements and sourcing strategy.
• Sets the standards for conducting internal and external research on supply market and competitive activities within assigned spend categories to ensure the highest levels of insight is generated.
• Participates in the management of on-going vendor relationships and supplier performance across their portfolio; participates in regular supplier meetings and implements improvement strategies with suppliers.
• Oversees purchasing for assigned categories.
• Monitor status of open purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery of all materials, including timely resolution, communication, and mitigation of future potential problems.
• Work with internal team members to achieve optimal spend for assigned categories based on forecast, demand variation and material lead times.
• Coordinate material ordering, and the introduction of new suppliers and/or materials.
• Be a shared resource among the procurement team when support is needed.
• Continue to work with leadership on maintaining and managing vendor management database.

Qualifications

• • 2 years' experience in procurement operations
  • Highly motivated, self-directed, innovative, and able to work independently or among teams with keen judgement, common sense and resourcefulness.
  • 2 years experience in ERP systems, NetSuite experience a plus.
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Outlook)
  • Adapts and thrives in a demanding, start-up, fast-paced environment.
  • Superior communication and interpersonal skills (verbal, non-verbal, written), with the ability to build relationships at all levels, both internally and externally.
  • Possesses a high level of critical thinking.
  • Consistently operates with an elevated level of professionalism and integrity, including dealing with confidential information.

Contract role with possible potential for contract-hire. Daily expected tasks over the next few months include:

Invoice tariff reviews

Budget tracking

Managing Copier/Printer setups/issues

Managing Company Cell Phones

A/P & NetSuite issue resolution

Completion of Credit applications

Manage Certificate of Insurance Requests

Other daily tasks to be assigned