Sr. Procurement Specialist

Orbia•St. Gabriel, LA

14d•$79,000 - $129,000•Onsite

About The Position

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. That’s the spirit of the community you’ll find at Orbia: where the purpose to advance life around the world drives our global team of over 23,000 every single day. From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. Every operation at the St. Gabriel, LA site depends on one thing happening behind the scenes: the right materials, services, and suppliers arriving on time, on budget, and fully compliant. As a Senior Procurement Specialist, you are the person who makes that happen. You begin your day by aligning priorities with the Procurement Manager, balancing multiple requests across engineering and non-engineering teams. You are not just managing workload, you are acting as a partner, enabler, and facilitator, ensuring internal customers receive value for every dollar spent while supporting the broader business strategy. As the site’s procurement expert, you work closely with operations, mechanical, and electrical teams to understand their needs and translate them into smart commercial solutions. Whether sourcing engineering materials, spares, raw materials, or services, you lead supplier appraisals, selection, and negotiations for medium-complexity procurements, always securing optimal terms and conditions that meet both technical and commercial requirements. Your role goes beyond buying. You help implement and continuously improve engineering and non-engineering procurement strategies, processes, procedures, and contractual standards. You support the development of strong, compliant supplier relationships—monitoring performance, driving improvement, and ensuring alignment with company policies, applicable laws, and contract law requirements. You also play a key role in monitoring and reporting procurement spend, supporting the Procurement Manager with data, insights, and recommendations that improve efficiency and delivery standards across the business. Your ability to analyze spending, work confidently in SAP and Excel, and communicate clearly ensures decisions are informed and impactful. From time to time, you may provide direct line management to temporary procurement resources, offering guidance and oversight to ensure continuity and quality of service. Above all, you take ownership of your professional growth. You continuously develop your commercial expertise, influence stakeholders to adopt best-practice procurement approaches, and ensure compliance with agreed strategies and processes. Your success is measured not only by cost savings, but by internal customer satisfaction, supplier performance, and operational reliability.

Requirements

Degree in Business Studies
5+ years of SAP experience required (S4 and P2P preferred)
In-depth knowledge of contract law, purchasing terms, and conditions
Strong expertise in supplier selection strategies and negotiations
Experience managing suppliers across different geographical regions with varying legal and financial conditions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across functions
Strong IT capability, including SAP, Microsoft Office, and advanced Excel
A proactive, organized, and detail-oriented approach to managing competing priorities
A mindset focused on value creation, compliance, and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

Aligning priorities with the Procurement Manager, balancing multiple requests across engineering and non-engineering teams
Acting as a partner, enabler, and facilitator, ensuring internal customers receive value for every dollar spent while supporting the broader business strategy
Working closely with operations, mechanical, and electrical teams to understand their needs and translate them into smart commercial solutions
Leading supplier appraisals, selection, and negotiations for medium-complexity procurements, always securing optimal terms and conditions that meet both technical and commercial requirements
Implementing and continuously improving engineering and non-engineering procurement strategies, processes, procedures, and contractual standards
Supporting the development of strong, compliant supplier relationships—monitoring performance, driving improvement, and ensuring alignment with company policies, applicable laws, and contract law requirements
Monitoring and reporting procurement spend, supporting the Procurement Manager with data, insights, and recommendations that improve efficiency and delivery standards across the business
Providing direct line management to temporary procurement resources, offering guidance and oversight to ensure continuity and quality of service
Continuously developing commercial expertise, influencing stakeholders to adopt best-practice procurement approaches, and ensuring compliance with agreed strategies and processes