Senior Procurement Specialist

Job Title: Senior Associate, Procurement

Job Code: 42777

Job Location: Greenville, Texas On-site

Job Schedule: 9/80 Regular: Off every other Friday, 1st Shift 

Job Description

L3Harris Technologies, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) is seeking an exceptionally motivated, proactive individual to support the Procurement function. This role requires an eye for detail, accuracy, excellent interpersonal skills, and proven track record for taking the initiative, delivering exceptional results, and exceeding expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Position requires the ability to maintain a DoD Security Clearance. An active DoD (in-scope) Secret Clearance is required. 
• Draft, issue, and negotiate various contract vehicles, including RFPs, NDAs, Purchase Orders, Master Purchase and Service Agreements, Intercompany Work Authorizations, and others.
• Complete supplier selection process while understanding and mitigating risk associated with the project, and initiate corrective action with Suppliers when necessary.
• Communicate with contacts inside and outside of Procurement department to explain and interpret operational processes, practices, and procedures.
• Develop, maintain, and manage relationships with suppliers to achieve Program, Customer, and Corporate goals for sales, orders, and profit.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with cross-functional partners, to help influence and guide stakeholders, customers, and other external partners on Procurement matters.
• Negotiates and coordinates additions, deletions, or modifications to procurements.
• May sign supplier agreements and purchase orders within established authority.
• Experience with militarized aircraft.
• SAP ERP Experience.
• Work collaboratively with Supplier Quality.
• Practical understanding of Procurements' relationship with other functions and the ability to influence and gain trust within these relationships to collaborate with the team and define the appropriate execution methods to meet cash flow, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Intermediate negotiation skills in best value, lead times, pay terms, milestones, and executing legal documents (i.e., Purchase Order (PO), Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), Long Term Agreements, Terms and Conditions etc.) to effectively align with the customer needs.
• Must be available for business travel (up to 10%).

Essential Functions:

• Support for estimating efforts for bid pursuits
• Sources, negotiates, and purchases parts, services, license and subscriptions, and/or supplies necessary for operation of an organization.
• Reviews proposals, negotiates pricing and terms and conditions, selects or recommends suppliers, analyzes trends, follows up with orders placed, verifies delivery schedules, approves payments, and maintains necessary records.  May also prepare request for proposals (RFP) and bid packages.
• Compiles and analyzes statistical data to determine feasibility of buying and repairing products and to establish price objectives.  Evaluates bids and selects suppliers based on price, delivery, quality, and service to obtain best overall value for L3Harris.  Monitors performance of suppliers.
• This position requires close, professional & courteous daily interface with internal and external customers and all levels of leadership.  Applicant must have excellent communication skills and a thorough understanding of cross-functional interactions as they relate to Depot activities. Strong organizational skills, prioritizing, and the ability to multi-task and interact with several individuals at once is a must.
• Candidate must be willing to be on call, work over-time, weekends, and odd shifts, as program support requires.

Qualifications:

• Procurement sourcing, negotiation, and compliance experience is required.
• Experience in the Aerospace Industry preferred.
• Candidate must be able to work closely with team members and have a willingness to learn.
• Good verbal and written communication skills required.
• Experience inputting and retrieving data in SAP desired.
• Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Requires practical knowledge of job area. Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.  Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience.  In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.