Senior Procurement Specialist - WACO, TX

Job Posted 8/25/2024
Msccn
Waco
United States
Category 📦 Operations
Job Description
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Job Description

The Procurement Manager (Senior Specialist) is responsible for executing source-to-contract procurement processes in alignment with business goals and industry best practices, ensuring compliance with procurement policies, and contributing to supplier diversity and sustainability. This role plays an essential part in executing supplier management activities, implementing continuous improvement projects, and driving day-to-day supplier excellence.

•Assist with source to contract procurement processes in line with business goals and industry best practices, ensuring alignment with defined category strategic vision.

•Maintain compliance with procurement policy and team activities to business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value.

•Execute supplier management activities in alignment to category SRM strategy, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions, including negotiations and workshops.

•Adhere to risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience.

•Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, implementing strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.

•Execute continuous improvement projects initiated by the PSC team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations.

•Oversee Specialists’ execution of procurement activities and provide feedback while developing own capabilities and accumulates category expertise in accordance with individual learning path.

•Actively enable team goals, ensuring performance targets and objectives are delivered successfully.

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities
Qualifications

Qualifications:

•Specific and tactical expertise in enabling implementation of procurement processes, including source-to-contract planning and cost assessment, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.

•Ample experience in the respective category area, with familiarity tailoring processes to meet category needs.

•Ability to enable the bidding and negotiation processes, with adept ability to implement complex long-term projects with a focus on creating effective supplier relationships.

•Capacity and experience assisting with collaborative supplier relationships, aligning procurement activities with business needs.

•Innovative problem-solving skills combined with a solution-oriented mindset, enabling creative approaches and clear communication at all organizational levels.

•Cross-functional collaboration abilities and teamwork skills, effectively navigating diverse team dynamics.

•Strong soft skills and emotional intelligence, facilitating empathetic interactions, effective communication, and robust relationship-building.

•Impactful executive functioning abilities and autonomous work ethic, maintaining efficient performance in challenging situations and building consensus in decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications:

•Bachelor’s degree desired, equivalent hands-on experience within Procurement/Business will be considered. Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Mgmt. or related field desired.

•Minimum of 5 years of experience in procurement, supply chain or related business or operations function.

•Previous experience in procurement activities including source to contract, requisition to pay, and negotiation.

•Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Power Platform).

•Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.


Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​



The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​


 $80500 - $153000