Procurement Specialist

Responsible for coordinating incoming ingredient schedules, requirements, accounting reports, and build critical supplier relationship needs, including but not limited to service agreements, non-disclosures, purchase orders, invoices, insurance, and on-boarding documents. Understands the ramifications of procurement to companys supply chain.
Accountabilities:
Coordinate incoming material delivery schedules together with plant material managers. Monitor requirements for material needs and maintain reports to assure timely processing of delivery and payment to vendors. Proactively support and communicate updates on material specifications together with Research and Development and Corporate Quality.
Maintain and improve on systems developed to promote successful performance of our suppliers and to support our plants operations as it relates to procurement activities. Examples: scheduling, spot buying, ensure supply. Ideal candidate should be able to quickly understand current processes to guarantee supply. Upon successful adoption of current processes said candidate must, with the alignment of their line manager, initiative to improve, change or stop any process that they identify as an opportunity for improvement. All changes to process should promote continuous improvement and consistent supply. Examples of processes prime for evaluation: ensure supply escalations from the plant, scheduling, PO creation, vendor performance evaluation.
Collaborate with Sourcing Managers to perform category planning and annual bid activities. This may include but is not limited to gathering data and conducting all aspects of RFx process. Examples of activities: organizing bids pre-launch, sending out bid, aggregating bid responses, collaborating during negotiations and document collection for new suppliers, etc.
Support spot load purchases each week by working with team to understand loads that need to be secured above our contract commitments.
Partner with Sourcing Managers on cost management processes such as category spend analysis, total cost of ownership assessments, cost savings idea generation, and other cost based tactical activities that support category strategies.
Have a mindset that embraces radical candor for the betterment of supplier relations and teammates alike. The ideal candidate would embody this mindset and strive to do what is best for the team / overall success of the business. Speaking up when s/he sees an opportunity for improvement or change.
Facilitate and work closely with sourcing coordinator on various tactical needs as they arise within the procurement group, including but not limited to; issuance of purchase orders, obtaining and distributing data requests, reports, and analysis. May include conducting quality root-cause analysis and representing the Procurement department in meetings, etc.
Assist in driving continuous improvement to drive efficiencies and cost savings to supplier strategic department and company goals and objectives.
Contributes to building budgets and creating forecasts. Track information and maintain data, metrics, KPIs. Analyze data and assist with the creation of internal and external presentations for past, current and future spend. Be able to provide updates at any time.

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