Position Overview:

This position is responsible for purchasing and negotiating materials, equipment, and services from suppliers. The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the procurement field and relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals to perform a variety of tasks. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Attention to detail is critical.

Position Responsibilities:

• Purchase materials, equipment, and services for maintenance, repairs, and operation of the Mine in the best interests of the company. Serves as company representative in negotiations with suppliers.
• Creates purchase orders and agreements. Ensures transactions are managed in a seamless process from order entry through invoice payment. Maintains supporting documentation for all purchases.
• Utilizes practices such as RFQ, bid analysis, and negotiation to ensure maximized value from expenditures. Seek new practices and methods to increase the value of services.
• Reviews approved requisitions, creates purchase orders, and manages the PO lifecycle from creation to closing.
• Maintains consistent communication between suppliers and internal parties. Works to resolve problems that affect company quality and delivery commitments.
• Provide technical and expert counsel to internal customers on topics such as purchasing policies, purchasing processes, supplier sourcing, and SAP requirements for purchasing.
• Liaises with other procurement and legal professionals to assure that contractual terms and conditions are acceptable and serve to minimize risk. Evaluates competitive bids and quotations.
• Negotiates agreements that achieve lowest cost for materials balanced against optimum quantity, reliability and on-time delivery metrics.
• Maintains awareness of current market conditions, new products, and supply sources for assigned commodities, new technologies, and methods that enhance value of purchasing process.
• Identifies key purchasing criteria for each material or service being sourced. Evaluates with suppliers to determine factors that affect price and availability. Performs market analysis and utilizes standardized criteria in identification and selection of potential sources of supply.
• Supports development of estimates by obtaining proposals for materials and services needed in support of the mine operations.
• Receives and reviews purchase requisitions for materials and services for completeness and proper level of approval. Issues and tracks purchase commitments to ensure timely delivery and acceptable performance by suppliers.
• Proficiency in total life cycle cost or other commercial analysis and process improvement methods utilized to support company initiatives.
• Review suppliers for compliance with company's quality and compliance criteria.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Business, or related field preferred or (4 years' experience in Lieu of degree) plus minimum 5-year relevant experience.

Preferred Education/Certification/Licensure:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain or business administration preferred.
• CPSM (Certified Professional in Supply Management) preferred.

Specialized Skills:

• Strong analytical and presentation skills.
• Extensive experience with SAP, Excel, Power Point, and other Microsoft Office products.
• Exhibits strong personal integrity and a high level of customer service .
• Able to act independently and be hands on with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to act with confidence and speed in execution.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate change with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Is a Change Champion. Has the courage to lead change. Takes a broad business perspective and is willing to speak up. Stimulates new thinking in a positive and non-threatening fashion.
• A strong collaborator across the business, Supply Chain and other support Functions.
• Can deal with ambiguity, showing strong self-confidence and determination.

Safety Provision - Employees are responsible for following all company, industry and regulatory procedures and laws to ensure a safe work environment for themselves and the company. Employees must have a willingness to promote safety among the workforce, participate in Process Hazard Analysis procedures and Pre-Startup Safety Reviews.

(PPE) Personal Protective Equipment is required when performing work in a mine, manufacturing, outdoor, or plant environment. Required PPE may include, but is not limited to, hard hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, safety footwear, respirator, rubber steel-toe boots, protective clothing, gloves, and any other protective equipment as required.

Working Conditions - Our facility sits at an elevation of 4,700 feet. Employees may be subject to extreme weather conditions when working in an outdoor setting (heat and cold, wind). Work is at an open pit mine or manufacturing/chemical plant setting, which may include exposure to moving mechanical parts, toxic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, explosives, fumes, or airborne particles.

Physical Demands -Manual dexterity; sense of touch; sense of smell; speaking clearly; hearing-speech range; hearing - all ranges; seeing, reading and comprehensions; seeing - distant/near; depth perception; color vision. While performing the job responsibilities, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to stand and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel and to manipulate laboratory equipment. The employee is occasionally required to walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Employees must pass a full-face respiratory fit test. Employees must be able to lift 50 lbs. Must be able to work in PPE level C. These requirements are representative, but not all-inclusive, of the knowledge, skill, and ability required of the employee.