Procurement Specialist

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• Strong experience in SAP.
• Manufacturing environment preferred.
• Excellent organization skills.

Responsibilities:

• Expedites as needed and serves as liaison between vendors and users.
• Resolves complex delivery, quality or other related problems with purchases and invoices.
• Develops project plans and purchasing systems; reviews and analyzes requisitions and supply plans for domestic and international purchases.
• Negotiates prices, terms and quality requirements; develops requests for quotes and develops new supply sources.
• Evaluates market conditions.
• Guides value analysis to identify cost improvements, develops cost saving proposals including make-versus-buy analysis, alternative sourcing and vendor evaluation criteria.
• Manages a work queue and ensures that POs are issued in due time.
• Ensures close cooperation with internal customers, engineering team, supplier quality teams, and operation teams to ensure customer care and early involvement.
• Manages a portfolio of supplier relationships, negotiates price increase requests, prepares RFQ packs, onboards suppliers, runs bidding processes, and conducts negotiations for medium purchasing volumes.
• Contributes to implementation and ensures usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance.
• Supports supplier management processes including qualification, selection, evaluation, development, and classification; updates supplier evaluation systems to obtain and develop the best suppliers and ensure transparency and high procurement quality.
• Supports and/or leads procurement business plan activities.