Buyer

Senior Procurement Specialist

We are seeking a Senior Procurement Specialist to support procurement and subcontracting operations within a manufacturing environment. This individual will serve as a key partner to manufacturing sites, supply chain teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure materials and subcontracting activities are executed efficiently through SAP. Key responsibilities include managing end-to-end procurement and purchasing activities within SAP, creating, maintaining, and monitoring purchase orders to support manufacturing operations, executing and overseeing subcontracting processes, including material planning and supplier coordination, partnering with manufacturing sites, planners, suppliers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to ensure continuity of supply, analyzing purchasing and inventory challenges and developing solutions to prevent disruptions, ensuring compliance with procurement policies, procedures, and established workflows, monitoring supplier performance and supporting issue resolution related to deliveries, quality, and inventory, driving process improvements and recommending efficiencies within procurement operations, supporting reporting, data analysis, and purchasing metrics as needed, and providing guidance or mentorship to junior procurement staff.

Skills: Purchasing, Purchase order, SAP, Procurement, Buyer purchasing, Supply chain

Top Skills Details: Purchasing, Purchase order, SAP

Additional Skills & Qualifications: Required qualifications include 5-8+ years of procurement, purchasing, supply chain, or buyer experience, subcontracting experience, 2+ years entering PO's through SAP, proven ability to manage high-volume transactional purchasing activities, and ability to work independently while managing competing priorities. Preferred qualifications include direct SAP subcontracting experience (highly preferred), manufacturing industry background, experience supporting chemical manufacturing, specialty materials, or engineered products environments, experience leading projects, mentoring others, or serving as a procurement subject matter expert, and continuous improvement or process optimization experience.

Experience Level: Intermediate Level

Job Type & Location: This is a contract to hire position based out of Saint Paul, MN.

Pay and Benefits: The pay range for this position is $38.46 - $45.67/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: medical, dental & vision, critical illness, accident, and hospital, 401(k) retirement plan pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available, life insurance (voluntary life & AD&D for the employee and dependents), short and long-term disability, health spending account (HSA), transportation benefits, employee assistance program, time off/leave (PTO, vacation or sick leave).

Workplace Type: This is a hybrid position in Saint Paul, MN.

Application Deadline: This position is anticipated to close on Aug 24, 2026.