Procurement Specialist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, procurement, business, finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 3 to 5 years of progressive experience in indirect sourcing, purchasing, procurement, category support, or a related corporate environment.
• Demonstrated experience conducting competitive sourcing events, analyzing bids, negotiating commercial terms, preparing supplier recommendations, and processing purchase orders.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including spend analysis, total-cost evaluation, pricing comparisons, savings validation, and data-driven decision support.
• Working knowledge of procurement policies, competitive-bidding practices, approval authority, supplier risk, contract processes, and procure-to-pay controls.
• Hands-on experience with procurement, sourcing, supplier management, contract lifecycle management, contingent workforce, or ERP solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organization, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and manage multiple sourcing and procurement activities with accuracy and limited oversight.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with PowerPoint and Word.
• Commercial and sourcing acumen, including the ability to evaluate supplier proposals, negotiate effectively, and make sound recommendations.
• Data-driven analytical mindset and ability to translate spend, market, supplier, and operational data into actionable insights.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to influence decisions and explain procurement requirements clearly.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, remove roadblocks, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative, proactive, customer-focused approach to building trust with stakeholders and suppliers.
• Attention to detail, documentation discipline, problem-solving ability, and commitment to ethical conduct and compliance.
• Continuous-improvement mindset and ability to learn procurement tools, technologies, categories, and business processes quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting indirect categories such as professional services, technology, facilities, marketing, human resources, travel, contingent labor, or other corporate services.
• Experience with platforms such as SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, Ironclad, Oracle ERP, or comparable solutions.
• Professional procurement or supply-management certification; preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements, define scopes, develop sourcing strategies, and establish evaluation criteria for assigned indirect spend categories.
• Conduct requests for information, proposals, and quotations, as well as competitive bidding; coordinate supplier communications, bid analysis, evaluations, and award recommendations.
• Analyze spend, pricing, market conditions, demand, and total cost of ownership to identify savings, cost avoidance, consolidation, and value-improvement opportunities.
• Negotiate commercial terms, pricing, service levels, delivery requirements, and other business terms within delegated authority, partnering with relevant internal stakeholders as needed.
• Support contract development, review, approval, execution, renewal, and obligation tracking.
• Evaluate and recommend suppliers based on cost, quality, service, capacity, risk, compliance, innovation, and business continuity considerations.
• Develop and maintain supplier relationships; support performance reviews, corrective action plans, issue resolution, continuous improvement, and risk mitigation.
• Procure products and services at the best overall value consistent with quality, reliability, timing, risk, and urgency of need.
• Create, review, and process requisitions, purchase orders, change orders, and related procurement transactions in accordance with company standards, approval authority, policies, and procedures.
• Review non-standard and lower-complexity purchases, recommend sourcing approaches, and resolve purchasing, receiving, invoicing, catalog, and payment exceptions.
• Ensure sourcing and purchasing activities comply with procurement policies, competitive-bidding requirements, approval controls, ethical standards, contractual obligations, and applicable regulations.
• Maintain accurate sourcing files, bid documentation, approvals, supplier records, contracts, pricing, and audit support documentation.
• Use procure-to-pay, sourcing, contract lifecycle management, supplier management, and ERP systems to execute work, maintain data quality, and support controls.
• Maintain assigned catalogs, pricing, supplier content, and reference data; communicate relevant changes to users and stakeholders.
• Create and review reports and dashboards for spend, savings, purchase orders, invoices, supplier performance, cycle times, compliance, aging, and other procurement indicators.
• Manage multiple sourcing and procurement projects, provide timely status updates, escalate risks, and drive actions to completion.
• Support procurement system enhancements, testing, user acceptance testing, training, deployment, and adoption; troubleshoot user and supplier issues and coordinate support tickets as needed.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and strengthen sourcing and procure-to-pay processes.
• Provide procurement process, policy, and system guidance to employees and suppliers, including job aids or training as needed.
• Perform other sourcing, procurement, systems, and special-project duties as assigned.