Senior Procurement Specialist

Senior Procurement Specialist

The Senior Procurement Specialist manages the sourcing of goods, services, and projects while continuously identifying and implementing opportunities to lower total cost of ownership. This position performs services on high level capital and expense categories or may manage a category of goods and services spend between $100 and $175M per year. This position is expected to make a contribution to meeting company total cost of ownership reduction goals.

Key Accountabilities

• Prepare bid packages, statement of work documents, and requests (RFP / RFI) according to specifications and business requirements while supporting business with all commercial needs including dispute resolution and contract interpretation.
• Build, lead, and maintain development of sourcing strategies from project identification through close-out including alternative sourcing options.
• Negotiate complex commercial agreements within assigned categories in partnership with internal stakeholders, including legal and risk departments.
• Build and maintain Supplier / Contractor relationships with the objective of reducing total costs, increasing productivity, and eliminating inefficiencies in the supply chain.
• Lead cross functional teams to develop and implement category and supplier initiatives resulting in process efficiencies, total cost of ownership (TCO) savings in line with business goals.
• Drive use of spend analytics and market research in order to develop profiles for assigned category(s).
• Drive development of KPI's for both supplier and category performance while using subject matter expertise and supplier industry knowledge to establish "should cost" models, identify opportunities, and drive supplier negotiations.
• Drive collaborative relationships with business, state leadership and business operations management in order to gather feedback, understand issues, recognize opportunities, and influence category strategies.

Knowledge / Skills

Experience / Education

Work Environment

Travel Requirements

Other

Competencies

Champions safety

Customer obsessed

Cultivates innovation

Nimble learning

Drives Results

Collaborates