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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (Business, Operations, Supply Management or Engineering) preferred or equivalent experience.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in Procurement, Administrative, or Supply Chain Management preferred, with alternate backgrounds in Manufacturing Operations or Start-Up environment considered.
• Proficient level of expertise of areas such as commodity markets and RFI/RFQ benchmarking, and familiarity with strategic analysis tools such as scorecards, paretos, and five forces analysis.
• Very strong Excel skills and be able to perform V lookups and create complex pivot tables, charts, and graphs at a minimum.
• Must have an ability to read and understand technical documents and engineering drawings.
• Strong negotiation, oral and written communication skills, excellent analytical, planning, and process development skills, strong business judgement, and high level of initiative are all required.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate logical and persuasive arguments across the organization is required.

Responsibilities

• Create, implement, and maintain strategic sourcing strategies and tactical purchasing for assigned commodity portfolio ranging across mechanical commodities, electronics, composites, or indirect material/services.
• Conduct spend analysis, supplier assessment, and supplier selection using landed cost modeling.
• Evaluate vendor quotes and prepare structured business award recommendations to internal stakeholders.
• Purchase and negotiate price, lead time, and net terms for assigned commodities.
• Identify and execute areas of opportunity to reduce costs and inventory by negotiating favorable business/service agreements with suppliers (consignment/VMI), value engineering, or purchase price variance.
• Negotiate and manage cost models for suppliers (price, volume discounts, commodity cost forecasts and cost drivers, etc.).
• Collaborate with Quality to capture appropriate performance measurements (Quality, Cost and Delivery) of supply base and provide timely feedback to assigned suppliers.
• Continuously improve vendor and commodity knowledge by visiting current and prospective suppliers.
• Work with Accounts Payable and vendors to ensure on-time payments.

Benefits

• health insurance
• 401(k)
• short and long-term disability
• paid time off
• growth and developmental opportunities
• other incentive compensation programs