Procurement specialist
in this role, you will work with the category management team to identify opportunities for cost savings and improve supply chain efficiency.
about the job:
- conduct market research and analysis to inform procurement decisions.
- develop and implement strategies to reduce costs and improve quality of goods and services.
- collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business results.
- analyze data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
requirements:
- bachelor's degree in related field.
- 4+ years of experience in procurement or a related field.
- strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities.
qualifications:
- apics training or certification is a plus.
- experience working with data tools such as excel, power bi, and ariba.
- strong knowledge of procurement principles and practices.
what you'll do:
- generate and lead medium spend initiatives to improve yearly savings and trade working capital.
- review, approve, or reject purchase requisitions through ariba.
- drive spend analysis and ensure clear spend reporting by reclassifying vendor spend to the proper taxonomy.
- work together with the procurement data team to build reporting/bi that drives and accelerates savings initiatives.
- responsible for facilitating rfp enablement with category managers.
- lead and execute strategy for sub-categories alongside the cm.
- drive our spend under contract kpi by partnering with the category manager to ensure our contracts are loaded into our clm tool.
- reviews and negotiates contracts and sows for assigned categories.
- researches the category and provides market intelligence to the category manager.
- generates financial/savings reporting using our preferred tool.
- engages and enables training our indirect stakeholders on how to effectively engage with the team and how to utilize our solutions/agreements.
- support jci supplier business continuity program by deploying actions to reach category targets.
- analyze spend data at a part number level to identify cost reduction, standardization, or simplification opportunities.