Procurement Specialist, Professional & HR Services

• Provide operational support to the Commodity Manager & Category Manager positions through leadership of the bid process, bid analysis & first-pass sourcing recommendations.
• Primary responsibility for coordinating Supplier Relationship Management globally.
• Maintain & update all price information records within SAP, be accountable for all integrity of this data in the regional operating systems.
• Responsible for commodity performance metrics, analyzing business intelligence & reporting supplier data trends.
• Support the lower spend commodities in the HR Services space in the capacity of Category Lead - lead bid process, negotiations, contracting, and spend channel management with group of stakeholders.
• Lead monthly Contract Review meetings and monthly Stakeholder meetings.

• Bid/Negotiation - Lead the bid process, including but not limited to pre-bid source identification, RFI release, RFP development, bid scheduling, bid validation & participate in supplier negotiations. Support negotiations by providing bid analysis, productivity assessments & leverage opportunities. Obtain commodity volume forecast.
• Source Plan Administration & Contract Compliance - Primary owner of supplier master data contained in price information records database (currently MACOS) & contract compliance. Develop & submit business case for new source approvals. Manage the MIS & Visual Data Board process to ensure data integrity. Administer & maintain source plan through multiple regional systems.
• Business Analysis & Financial Reporting - Provide reporting on cost projections, risk estimates, productivities & working capital changes. Prepare clean sheet analysis as required by Commodity Managers in support of assigned commodities.
• Commodity Information - Primary responsibility to maintain all market intelligence records for assigned commodities in terms of product formulation, feedstock indicators (prices, volumes, etc.), worldwide manufacturers, technologies trends, freight & duty databases, exchange rates & competitive intelligence. Provide market analysis & recommendations to commodity Managers for review & incorporation into commodity & supplier strategies.
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) - Primary point of contact for supplier communications. Initiate & drive corrective actions as they relate to commodity strategies, supplier strategies & business continuity. Be responsible for process related to payments, invoice exceptions & cost of quality recoveries (over $5,000).

• Bachelor's degree.
• Desired - BS Business/finance, purchasing & supply chain management specialization or engineering.

• No minimum years of experience. 1-3 years preferred.
• Prior internship, co-op experience in purchasing, supply chain or related field preferred.

• Fundamental knowledge of business processes.
• Organization skills, strong Microsoft Access/Excel skills &/or other database programs.
• Ability to work in a very fast paced environment.
• Strong financial/statistical analysis, foreign language, manufacturing process, mathematical modeling, international experience, purchasing or technical expertise desired.

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