Purchasing Agent III

Sierra Nevada Corporation • Plano, TX

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About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity to deepen your purchasing and supplier management skills in a meaningful work environment that supports and protects explorers and heroes? Join our team! As a Purchasing Agent III, you'll support the Supply Management organization through Category, Agreement, and Performance Management of our Suppliers. You'll be utilizing your skills and expertise to purchase materials, supplies, and services on the most favorable terms for the organization. You'll be responsible for helping to qualify our suppliers, monitoring and ensuring our supplier quality and delivery, evaluating bids, negotiating prices and terms for purchased goods and services, tracking purchases, and maintaining a current database of our supplier information. Additionally, you'll provide subject matter expertise on complex procurements of significant dollar value, as well as independently manage multiple service type contracts. You'll help with the planning of the process for the purchasing function, and support programs. Your primary role is to ensure supplier performance to SNC and its missions, meeting supplier delivery, quality, service, cost and technical requirements through the entire purchase order lifecycle. You may support the identification and development of current and new suppliers to support Category goals, as well as monitoring, measuring and reporting supplier(s) progress. It will be important to contract appropriately, ensuring SNC protection and obligating suppliers to clearly specified requirements. You are responsible for what you buy, from whom and the corresponding results. As a Purchasing Agent, you will work to reduce the cost and increase the value of using the SNC supply base over time. You are the leader of a given procurement, and you represent your internal teammates who have communicated this requirement. The Mission Solutions and Technologies (MST) business area provides affordable, turn-key command/control, communications, integrated ISR, force protection and security solutions worldwide. The MST team has a long legacy of supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, commercial and international customers with years of experience in platform operations, engineering and full lifecycle management across domains - air, land, sea, space and cyber.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field and typically 6 or more years of relevant experience
• Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
• Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of required education

Nice To Haves

• The ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance may be required
• Working knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) compliance
• Experience working in CostPoint or other ERP systems
• Proficiency in oral and written communications
• Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
• Strong understanding of all aspects of finance and accounting related to procurement
• Complete understanding of the procurement lifecycle
• Relevant certifications (CPIM, CSSP, CPM, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Increasingly provide supply base expertise to SNC proposals and programs, knowing the suppliers well enough to be able to facilitate and guide cross-functional sourcing and supplier management activities
• Ensure accurate requirements are defined and understood and accepted by the supplier(s)
• Foster and lead supplier-related communication and relationships; information to and from the supplier will flow through you
• Act as the Point of Contact between SNC / Program(s) and the supply base
• As the Supply Management representative, you will own the relationship between SNC and your suppliers, even as you facilitate executive and PM interaction with these suppliers
• Lead negotiations to include, but not limited to, deliverable requirements, terms and conditions, pricing, schedule, and milestone development
• Document acquisitions and maintain files in compliance with government regulations, company policy, and best business practices, and provide audit support as required
• Track progress on subcontracts/POs: progress against schedule, available funding, actual and forecasted spending
• Identify risk and opportunities, and as assigned, develop risk management/mitigation plans and strategies
• Status supply base activity to programs, SCM organization
• As assigned, develop and drive given Category strategy integration with stakeholders across the BA(s) and enterprise
• You are the bridge between SNC and our supply base to ensure a collaborative approach to strategic thinking and problem solving - cross-functional collaboration both internally and externally will be expected
• Support department goals including, but not limited to: on-time delivery, negotiations, and PR processing time, to name a few

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%
• Life insurance
• 3 weeks paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous benefit package

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree