Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Integrate and communicate the overall procurement strategy
  
• Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships, lead negotiations of agreements with our legal team and owns contractual process to reach final approvals
  
• Acts as the liaison between internal and external partners to solve operational, contractual, legal, product, and functional challenges.
  
• Develop and control the supply base to drive lowest total cost of ownership
  
• Develop and lead quarterly business reviews (QBRâ??s) for all commodities
  
• Evaluate supplier processes and monitors supplier performance to obtain lowest total supply chain costs and best overall product line offering.
  
• Crafts and maintains various reports and analyses in support of internal business owners and key stakeholders
  
• Supports Finance to assure timely resolution of payment issues and accurate tracking of productivity projects.
  
• Participate and support the Global Procurement team as an active member.
  
• Negotiate supplier contracts to optimize supply, terms and conditions, and contract prices
  
• Implement best industry practices within the organization and the supporting supplier base
  
• Conduct periodic audits and capability assessments to identify trends and make recommendations for continuous improvement in productivity and efficiency of operation
  
• Collaborate with Supplier Quality Engineering to monitor, measure, and improve supplier quality
  
• Manage supply chain performance and report monthly performance results, identifying issues and recommending corrective actions
  
• Establish supplier scorecards and document supplier development plans
  
• Collaborate with engineering to help develop and implement supply chain strategy during new product introduction
  
• Facilitate the coordinated effort of collecting trend data in the areas of supply and market stability to proactively develop risk mitigation strategies/solutions.
  
• Continually assess and develop the supply chain teamâ??s skill set and training to ensure appropriate resources are in place to support the strategy and team professional development.
  
• Other duties may be assigned.
  

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Junior Buyers, Buyers and Senior Buyers. Will have matrix responsibility for Sourcing, Supplier Quality and Tier One Support.
  

QUALIFICATIONS:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  

Education And/Or Experience

• Bachelora??s degree in a business or technical discipline, or possess the equivalent combination of education and experience. Graduate Degree preferred.
  
• At least 5 years of related experience from within a manufacturing or purchasing environment.
  
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills.
  
• Possess sound knowledge of ERP Systems and Material Requirement Planning.
  
• Specific knowledge in the areas of planning and purchasing methods and procedures, and techniques of specification and contract writing.
  
• Tenacious commitment to continuous improvement
  
• Excellent relationship and influencing skills
  

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

CPM and / or CPIM certification.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to utilize a personal computer and related business software including, but not limited to, spreadsheet, word processor and relational database software.
• Ability to manage and utilize an automated sales order entry system.