Essential Duties & Responsibilities
• Partner with functional stakeholders and business leadership to understand business strategy, business objectives, and product requirements and specifications.
• Management and leadership of procurement specialists coordinating workloads, process audits/improvements, as well as operational efficiency
• Mentor and develop Procurement Specialists
• Develop procurement supply standards working with the quality, engineering, and operations functions.
• Establish, analyze, and optimize the business's procurement strategy ensuring alignment with annual business plan, product roadmaps and launch timelines.
• Support market evaluation and vendor profiles to aid supplier selection on a global basis, and in partnership with the Strategic Sourcing team.
• Use supplier relationship management best practices throughout negotiation, contracting, onboarding and renewal.
• Support regular vendor performance and quality evaluations, and supplier risk assessments for continuity of supply.
• Collect and interpret procurement data including cost analysis reporting ensuring compliance with budgets and mitigating risks such as supply chain disruptions or price volatility
• Perform regular reviews of established procurement processes to ensure continual improvement.
• Support New Product Introductions
Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in business, engineering, supply chain or operations.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in industrial manufacturing
Skills and Competencies
• Demonstrated experience in developing and executing procurement strategy.
• Excellent contracting and procurement negotiating skills
• Excellent MRP skills, SAP experience preferred
• Proven history of relationship and conflict management
• Strategic thinking and creative problem solving
• Strong communication and collaboration with peer group and senior leadership
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
Office Setting
• Choice of sitting or standing or alternating between them (stand-up desk optional)
• Keyboarding/typing on a computer for extended periods of time
• Moderate noise, i.e., phones, printer, light foot traffic
