Associate Procurement Representative

The Procurement Representative – Procurement Hub supports a range of Source to Pay activities, including but not limited to stakeholder and supplier communication and support, designs and administration of RFx events, supplier negotiation, supplier selection/onboarding, reporting, compliance checks, policy enforcement, rate negotiation, catalog management and procure to pay services.

Responsibilities:

• Works with and supports the Global Indirect category managers with all phases of the procurement process from sourcing activities, term and rate negotiation, supplier onboarding and strategic selection of goods and services while complying with purchasing policies
• Collaborate with Business and Suppliers to design and administer eSourcing tool for RFx events
• Supplier rate negotiation and recommendation to Business
• Identify suppliers and look for cost optimization in tail spend management
• Report generation for internal and client leadership
• Participate and manage client, business, and supplier calls
• Data Analysis, rate aggregation, rate benchmarking to identify unique ways to influence client spend and opportunities to reduce cost
• Reconcile engagements to ensure completion and maintain client, customer, and supplier relationships
• Create presentation decks for internal procurement and business stakeholders
• Identify process gaps in the business process with recommendation for improvement

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in management, Business, Finance, Engineering, or Supply Chain
• 5+ years of experience in master data, procurement, shared services, finance, supply chain operations or related field.
• Experience with managing and delivering multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Chemistry, or Finance.  Or in process of completing an advanced degree
• Demonstrated history of leadership, teamwork, and project management skills
• Experience in SAP, GEP or other Source to Pay systems in a procurement or shared services environment
• Experience in sourcing Indirect Procurement or supply chain management experience
• Finance, audit, compliance experience