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Procurement Specialist
Tasks and requirements to be fulfilled:
1. Evaluate key spend, performance, and compliance data to lead supplier or category decisions.
2. Uses knowledge of the market segment for assigned categories to identify trends and mitigate potential market-related issues.
3. Identify, develop, and implement sourcing strategy, work with cross-functional teams to ensure strategies are executed, and effectively communicate initiatives to gain customer and supplier buy-in and drive them towards anticipated outcomes.
4. Builds mechanisms and leads initiatives to ensure suppliers’ costs don’t exceed established goals. Constantly seeks ways to reduce spending and demonstrates the ability to advise business owners on whether a given purchase is reasonable and justified.
5. Determines which suppliers should be positioned for long-term contracts based on the suppliers’ overall value to the business. Establishes and implements standards for partnering with these suppliers.
6. Establishes supplier diversity/sourcing targets and expands supplier selection options accordingly. Regularly evaluates these targets to raise the bar in terms of deliverables.
7. Negotiate commercials, contract terms, and implementation plans with suppliers. Collaborate with legal, business, operations, and tax teams to ensure compliance documents and contract management with suppliers.
8. Operates with significant autonomy and discretion.
9. Promote the Procurement team internally and externally.
10. Create mechanisms to measure supplier performances like scorecards, metrics, and QBRs.
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