Senior Procurement Specialist

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Location: Houston, Tx 

Posted on: 02/2021 

Need more information:    Call Necole Smith at (314) 396-9464 or email recruiter at nsmith@globalessentialstaffing.com 

Job Summary:  

Senior procurement specialist will manage relationships and contracts with a company’s suppliers to ensure best pricing, delivery, safety and service. Will oversee the ordering of materials a business uses through analyzing costs, negotiating contract details, and offering strategies and solutions to help companies better manage total cost of ownership on supplies and vendor services. Additional duties include managing others, tracking orders, resolving issues concerning disputes, reporting, and making bids for a vendor’s services.  

Essential Duties:  

• Duties include preparing and initiating invitations to bids to selected suppliers, negotiation, Purchase Order award, and Purchase Order close-out of equipment and services, including managing supplier performance aspects of major projects and contracts. 
• Works closely with the Sourcing leads, Material Coordinators, and network of Project Managers.  
• Review planned Bill of Materials to ensure Purchase Orders are created prior to commitment and  approval process.  
• Transmits approved purchase orders with appropriate supporting documents to Supplier and tracks acknowledgement by Supplier, confirm system lead time, delivery date, and cost.  
• Reviews, updates, and maintains open Purchase Orders until closed.  
• Reports Supplier non-conformances and prepares return documentation to Supplier with follow up until resolved. 
• Work with all relevant parties in the consolidation, reduction, and rationalization of the local supplier base and achieve cost improvement targets assigned by the Manager.  
• Serve as the single point of contact for Supplier's questions, leads supplier conference calls or meetings for the resolution or mitigation plans of key or critical issues to ensure alignment with project expectations.  
• Leads on the preparation of reporting and KPI measurement (e.g. savings report). 
• Leads in developing and maintaining Supplier Relationship Management program.  

Required Skills & Abilities:  

• Maintains the highest level of ethical and professional standards of conduct.  
• Leads onboarding and training support, mentoring, and development of team members.  
• Identifies common contract risk areas and advises program-level business representatives.  
• Serves as a recognized expert on a specific category or categories of supply.  
• Superior working knowledge of project-based procurement of specially engineered, complex equipment for large scale projects. 
• Must be able to adapt to varying project-specific requirements and timing requirements Rev 1/24/18. 
• Must be organized and able to effectively multitask and pro-actively manage multiple purchase orders on different projects, including managing Suppliers as necessary.  
• Experienced with exporting/importing material. 
• Able to work independently, and with others, and as an appropriate coach and lead others.  

Education and/ or Work Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in the supply chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, or equivalent related experience.  
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in procurement, supply chain, planning, or material management position. . 
• Strong Substation and Transmission line experience.  
• Able to effectively communicate commercial solutions and concepts to procurement personnel and  non-procurement personnel.  
• Advanced Excel user and proficient in MS Office suite. 

Need more information:    Call Necole Smith at (314) 396-9464 or email recruiter at nsmith@globalessentialstaffing.com