Senior Procurement Specialist

2 weeks ago


Billerica, United States Vaco Remote Work Freelance Full time

Vaco Boston has partnered with a leading manufacturing company North of Boston. The Procurement team is looking to bring on a Senior Procurement Specialist. This would be a hybrid position looking for someone to start ASAP. Please reach out for a full job description and immediate consideration

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage and build strong relationships with suppliers.
  • Negotiate costs and contracts with suppliers.
  • Work cross-functionally with various departments.
  • Maintain purchase contracts, confidentiality agreements, and purchase/price files.
  • Approve pricing for order requisitions to suppliers.
  • Support production planning to ensure delivery of raw material/supplies.
  • Assist with customer quality assessments and audits.
  • Analyze trends in the market.
  • Maintain SAP system, RFQ issue and Quote review requirements
  • Ability to analyze cost calculation and cost drivers and use them to evaluate, develop and delivery cost reduction strategies
  • Negotiate pricing with suppliers and process quotations
  • Establish logical new model cost targets
  • Achieve cost targets through effective supplier selection and negotiation


Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Experience with Oracle, Microsoft D365 or another MRP application.

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .

Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

  • the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
  • licensure and certification requirements;
  • office location and other geographic considerations;
  • other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.



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