Procurement Specialist

Job OverviewRequirement/Must Have:Strong experience in SAP.Manufacturing environment preferred.Excellent organization skills.Responsibilities:Expedites as needed and serves as liaison between vendors and users.Resolves complex delivery, quality or other related problems with purchases and invoices.Develops project plans and purchasing systems; reviews and analyzes requisitions and supply plans for domestic and international purchases.Negotiates prices, terms and quality requirements; develops requests for quotes and develops new supply sources.Evaluates market conditions.Guides value analysis to identify cost improvements, develops cost saving proposals including make-versus-buy analysis, alternative sourcing and vendor evaluation criteria.Manages a work queue and ensures that POs are issued in due time.Ensures close cooperation with internal customers, engineering team, supplier quality teams, and operation teams to ensure customer care and early involvement.Manages a portfolio of supplier relationships, negotiates price increase requests, prepares RFQ packs, onboards suppliers, runs bidding processes, and conducts negotiations for medium purchasing volumes.Contributes to implementation and ensures usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance.Supports supplier management processes including qualification, selection, evaluation, development, and classification; updates supplier evaluation systems to obtain and develop the best suppliers and ensure transparency and high procurement quality.Supports and/or leads procurement business plan activities.