Procurement Buyer (Manufacturing)

Job Title: Procurement Specialist Location: Houston, TX Employment Type: Contract (12 months) Industry: Manufacturing Compensation: $32.14 - $42.85 /hr. 1st shift) About the Opportunity:
Develops complex buying strategies to purchase and arrange timely deliveries of supplies and materials; 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.
Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting: This role offers the opportunity to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while providing you with room to grow and develop professionally. About Acara Solutions Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider- we help companies compete for talent. With experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and design talent solutions that deliver the business outcomes they want. We draw on decades of experience to provide contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide. Negotiates prices, terms and quality requirements; Guides value analysis to identify cost improvements, develops cost saving proposals including make-versus-buy analysis, alternative sourcing and vendor evaluation criteria.
Ensure a close cooperation with Internal Customers (MRPCs, requisitioners), engineering team, supplier quality teams, operation teams to ensure customer care and early involvement.
Manage a portfolio of suppliers relationships, negotiate price increase requests, prepare RFQ packs, onboarding suppliers, run bidding processes, and conduct negotiations for medium Purchasing Volumes.
Contribute to implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems).
update supplier evaluation systems to obtain and develop the best suppliers and ensure transparency and high procurement quality.
Support and lead Procurement Business Plan activities.

High School Diploma or GED.
~2+ years of experience in SAP.

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