Senior Specialist, Indirect Site Services Procurement
About The Position
The Senior Specialist, Indirect Site Services supports sourcing for multiple North American manufacturing sites, including DeSoto, Kansas; Elkhorn, Nebraska; Ames, Iowa; Worthington, Minnesota; and Millsboro, Delaware. The role focuses on indirect services categories such as Maintenance, Repair and Operations, Integrated Facilities Management, gases, electrical and mechanical site services, production equipment maintenance, and calibration services. The preferred work locations are DeSoto, Kansas, or Millsboro, Delaware. The position is hybrid, with three days on-site and two days working from home. The specialist develops and executes sourcing strategies, works with stakeholders and suppliers, leads procurement and negotiation processes, manages supplier performance, and identifies cost-reduction and working-capital improvement opportunities. The role also contributes to category strategies and ensures procurement is conducted ethically and in accordance with company policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Science, Engineering, or a related area of study.
- At least three years of procurement experience in Life Sciences or related industry environments.
- Experience with multi-site sourcing of indirect services categories, including gases, electrical/mechanical site services, production equipment maintenance, and calibration services.
- Strategic and effective negotiation and commercial skills.
- Ability to prioritize and multitask while working to an agreed schedule.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to work individually or as part of a team.
- Flexible approach to workload.
Nice To Haves
- Other purchasing qualification, such as CPM or CIPS.
Responsibilities
- Support manufacturing operations by driving sourcing strategies and stakeholder management for indirect services categories.
- Understand stakeholder requirements to establish supply strategies and proactively mitigate supply risks and issues.
- Lead stakeholder engagement meetings and schedule routine reviews.
- Translate stakeholder requirements into tangible business results.
- Develop requirements with business representatives, Legal, and other stakeholders.
- Conduct relationship management meetings with key and active suppliers.
- Manage supplier performance levels.
- Create and execute RFI and RFP processes, ensuring all business requirements are captured.
- Lead proposal assessments using predefined criteria derived from business requirements.
- Develop sourcing strategies aligned with stakeholder business requirements to drive value for the company.
- Create detailed pre-negotiation plans, lead negotiation sessions, and conduct post-negotiation debriefs.
- Prepare and implement appropriate forms of contract and commitment with suppliers.
- Liaise with corporate Legal for contract clause reviews.
- Ensure supplier agreements and relationships have a good supplier matrix embedded within them.
- Monitor, report, manage, and continuously improve supplier performance using OTIF metrics.
- Drive innovation with key suppliers and conduct routine meetings.
- Share best practices cross-functionally within the site team, region, and across categories.
- Ensure procurement is carried out ethically and in line with procurement policy and procedures.
- Identify, track, and deliver cost reduction and working capital improvement opportunities.
- Participate in strategic initiatives to improve and advance the category and subcategories.
- Support or manage category and subcategory performance in delivering critical department metrics.
- Actively participate in category teams, leading local or regional category strategies or subsets of global category strategies.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits and other insurance benefits for employees and families.
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k).
- Paid holidays.
- Vacation.
- Compassionate and sick days.
- Eligible for an annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
