Procurement Specialist

DP World•North Carolina, NC

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Procurement Specialist will purchase indirect materials and services, capital equipment, packaging, MRO, and other categories of items as assigned, ensuring the lowest total cost is achieved. This role requires maintaining thorough knowledge of assigned categories and serving as an expert for internal customers. The specialist will support and enable regional strategies, participate in and lead cross-functional teams for continuous improvement, and support annual cost reduction strategies. Key activities include negotiating pricing, sourcing new business, identifying opportunities for standardization and supplier consolidation, and initiating activities to pursue these opportunities. The role involves utilizing ERP systems for purchasing functions, creating and maintaining material documents, info records, purchasing contracts, and lease agreements. Additionally, the specialist will train and support Plant Lead Requisitioners on purchasing processes and SAP transactions, perform purchasing audits at plants, and travel to new business launch sites or sites with concern status to support and resolve purchasing-related issues. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Business, Supply Chain or similar field of study
Knowledge of program and project management
Ability to negotiate as an agent on the company’s behalf, ensuring the company is represented in the best possible way.
Ability to work well in cross-functional teams that include internal and external customers, and suppliers.
Firm understanding of the Procure to Pay process, request for quotation (RFQ) process, as well as cost reduction and supply base rationalization.
Able to complete strategic actions and initiatives in a timely manner while adhering to project budgets.
Ability to travel to sites for startup initiatives and to train and work with site purchasing professionals.

Nice To Haves

Experience within automotive or technology industries is desirable.
Experience within SAP is preferred.

Responsibilities

Purchase indirect materials and services, capital equipment, packaging, MRO, and other categories of items as assigned, ensuring lowest total cost is achieved.
Maintain thorough knowledge of categories assigned, functions as an expert for internal customers.
Support and enable regional strategies for specific categories where applicable, participate and lead cross functional teams as appropriate to bring continuous improvements to projects.
Support annual cost reduction strategies, including but not limited to: negotiate pricing ensuring the lowest price up-front, source new business per the regional category strategy, identify potential category and/or supplier opportunity areas (e.g. standardization, supplier consolidation, etc.), communicate potential opportunities internally, and initiate activities to assemble appropriate resources to pursue opportunity areas.
Work on ERP utilization in the purchasing function, create and maintain all material documents, info records, purchasing contracts and lease agreements in ERP or risk database, and utilize ERP reports to track costs and monitor spending.
Train and support Plant Lead Requisitioners on all purchasing processes, procedures, and on SAP in regards to all required transactions and reports.
Perform purchasing audits at plants to insure Plant Lead Requisitioners are following all processes and procedures.
Travel to new business launch sites when required to support purchasing processes/functions until permanent position is filled, trained and functioning.
Travel to sites with concern status with regards to a purchasing related issue/opportunity and/or the purchasing processes and resolve/stabilize.
Lead on Non Compliance Research and Resolution
Participation in Launch
Other duties as assigned