Logistics Procurement Manager
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. The posting includes Summary (which is about the role). Responsibilities section present. Qualifications (required) and Preferred (maybe combine). There's also "What We Offer" which includes Base Pay Range and benefits. So we need sections: About the role (maybe from Summary), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe Qualifications required), Skills (maybe from qualifications like Excel, communication), Benefits (What We Offer includes benefits), Pay (Base Pay Range). Schedule? Not present (no schedule info). Travel mentioned: "20 - 30% Travel" maybe could be schedule? But schedule is about work hours, not travel. Probably we omit Schedule section because no specific schedule content. Also we should not include placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Pay section: we have Base Pay Range: $106,500 - $156,200. Also mention incentive/sales variable compensation. That's specific. So include Pay.
Benefits: list many items: health, dental & vision insurance, parental leave, short term disability, EAP, 25 days PTO, holidays, additional time off, 401k with match, student debt payoff, professional development, wellness programs, financial education. We'll put as .
Skills: from qualifications: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, proficiency with Microsoft 365 apps, comfort using Copilot, ability to negotiate complex agreements in English, communicate effectively, strong written and verbal communication, ability to present data-driven recommendations, etc. Also maybe "Ability to analyze transportation rates..." but that's more qualifications. We'll separate: Requirements (required qualifications) and Skills (maybe specific abilities). But we can combine? The instruction: Use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need both Requirements and Qualifications? Might be overlapping. Usually Requirements = required qualifications, Qualifications = preferred? But we have both required and preferred. We'll treat Requirements as required qualifications, Qualifications as preferred? Or we could put required under Requirements and preferred under Qualifications. Let's do that.
Thus sections:
About the role
with summary paragraph.
Responsibilities
with list of responsibilities (preserve all). Need to extract bullet points from responsibilities block. The responsibilities block is a long paragraph with sentences separated by periods. We need to split into list items. We'll create - for each distinct responsibility sentence.
Let's parse responsibilities:
"Develop, maintain, and execute global procurement strategies for ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage services, covering an annual spend of approximately $25 million."
"Lead global and regional sourcing events, commercial negotiations, supplier selections, contract development, and contract renewals for the assigned logistics categories."
"Monitor global transportation markets and translate into procurement strategies"
"Establish category-specific procurement plans that align with Momentive’s business requirements, supply chain strategies, service expectations, sustainability objectives, and financial targets."
"Manage strategic relationships with ocean carriers, air freight providers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and other logistics service providers to ensure reliable capacity, competitive costs, operational flexibility, and continuity of supply."
"Establish supplier performance expectations including scorecards, business reviews, corrective-action plans, and continuous-improvement initiatives focused on cost, service, capacity, quality, compliance, and responsiveness."
"Partner with regional commodity managers and logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, commercial, finance, legal, and Global Trade Compliance stakeholders to align global strategies with regional and local operating requirements."
"Serve as the primary procurement escalation point for commercial, contractual, capacity, service, and supplier-performance issues involving the assigned logistics modes. Support the business in resolving significant operational issues while maintaining appropriate procurement relationships."
"Develop and maintain contingency strategies for critical trade lanes"
"Ensure contracts and sourcing decisions support applicable legal, regulatory, safety, dangerous-goods, customs, trade-compliance, insurance, and Responsible Care requirements."
"Represent Procurement in digitalization initiatives such as Transportation Management System (TMS) implementation, data visibility, and process improvements that strengthen shipment execution, freight-cost management, and performance measurement."
Also there is "20 - 30% Travel" after responsibilities? Actually appears after responsibilities block before Qualifications. That's not a responsibility but maybe a note. We could include under About the role or maybe as a separate line but not a heading. Since no Schedule section, we could include travel note in About the role paragraph or as a separate
. Probably include in About the role.
Now Requirements (required qualifications):
List:
- BS/BA degree or equivalent.
- Minimum of five years of professional experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain management, or logistics, including experience with ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, or comparable global transportation services.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing sourcing strategies, leading competitive bid events, negotiating complex commercial agreements, and managing multi-year supplier contracts.
- Proven ability to analyze transportation rates, shipment data, supplier proposals, and market information to support sourcing and negotiation decisions.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to organize, validate, analyze, and summarize large datasets using common tools in the application
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Teams, with the ability to prepare sourcing recommendations, presentations, reports, and stakeholder communications.
- Comfort using Microsoft 365 Copilot or other company-approved AI tools to analyze information, develop initial drafts and improve productivity, while independently validating outputs and following company data-security requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate complex agreements in English.
- Ability to communicate effectively with employees, suppliers, and leaders at all organizational levels through clear verbal communication, professional business writing, data-driven recommendations, and executive-level presentations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present data-driven recommendations to senior leaders and negotiate effectively with global suppliers.
Note some duplication (communication). We'll keep as list.
Qualifications (preferred):
- Experience procuring international transportation and logistics services in the chemical, specialty materials, manufacturing or other regulated industry.
- Working knowledge of dangerous-goods transportation, customs and trade compliance, carrier capacity management and international supply-chain risk.
- Experience managing global ocean carriers, air freight providers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, 3PLs or 4PLs.
- Relevant professional certification, such as CPSM, CSCP, CIPS, PMP, Lean or Six Sigma.
- Additional language skills and experience working in a global, cross-cultural environment.
Skills: maybe we could extract specific skills like Excel, Microsoft 365, Copilot, negotiation, communication, data analysis, etc. But we already have many under Requirements. To avoid duplication, we could put Skills separate focusing on soft/technical skills not covered? However instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one "Requirements" section and maybe not have Skills. But we need to follow headings list but only include when real content. We could omit Skills if content would be thin. But we have many skill items; we could still include Skills but risk duplication. Better to include Skills as a section highlighting specific abilities: Excel, Microsoft 365, Copilot, negotiation, communication, data analysis, presentation. But those are already in Requirements. However we could still include them; duplication may be okay but instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; not to invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is not prohibited but could be considered redundant. Safer to not duplicate; we can put Skills as a short list of distinct skill items not captured elsewhere: maybe "Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel", "Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications", "Comfort using Microsoft 365 Copilot", "Ability to negotiate complex agreements in English", "Strong written and verbal communication skills", "Ability to present data-driven recommendations to senior leaders". Those are indeed in Requirements but we could still list them; it's okay.
Alternatively we could omit Skills section and just have Requirements (including both required and preferred) and Benefits and Pay. But headings list includes Skills; we can omit if no specific content beyond what's already covered. The instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". If we put Skills but content is just repeating, it's still specific content (skills). It's not filler. So we can include.
Now Benefits: list items.
Pay: Base Pay Range and incentive info.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We must not include or . Just output the fragment.
Let's craft.
We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed.
We'll produce:
About the role
In this role you will develop and execute Momentive’s global procurement strategies for ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage services. You will manage supplier relationships, sourcing events, negotiations, contracts, and commercial performance across these logistics categories. Working closely with regional logistics commodity and logistics managers, as well as key business stakeholders, you will ensure alignment between global strategies and regional requirements. You will be accountable for delivering competitive logistics costs, securing reliable capacity, driving strong supplier performance, and managing commercial and supply risks across Momentive’s global transportation network. The role involves 20‑30% travel.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and execute global procurement strategies for ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage services, covering an annual spend of approximately $25 million.
- Lead global and regional sourcing events, commercial negotiations, supplier selections, contract development, and contract renewals for the assigned logistics categories.
- Monitor global transportation markets and translate into procurement strategies.
- Establish category-specific procurement plans that align with Momentive’s business requirements, supply chain strategies, service expectations, sustainability objectives, and financial targets.
- Manage strategic relationships with ocean carriers, air freight providers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and other logistics service providers to ensure reliable capacity, competitive costs, operational flexibility, and continuity of supply.
- Establish supplier performance expectations including scorecards, business reviews, corrective-action plans, and continuous-improvement initiatives focused on cost, service, capacity, quality, compliance, and responsiveness.
- Partner with regional commodity managers and logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, commercial, finance, legal, and Global Trade Compliance stakeholders to align global strategies with regional and local operating requirements.
- Serve as the primary procurement escalation point for commercial, contractual, capacity, service, and supplier‑performance issues involving the assigned logistics modes; support the business in resolving significant operational issues while maintaining appropriate procurement relationships.
- Develop and maintain contingency strategies for critical trade lanes.
- Ensure contracts and sourcing decisions support applicable legal, regulatory, safety, dangerous‑goods, customs, trade‑compliance, insurance, and Responsible Care requirements.
- Represent Procurement in digitalization initiatives such as Transportation Management System (TMS) implementation, data visibility, and process improvements that strengthen shipment execution, freight‑cost management, and performance measurement.
Requirements
- BS/BA degree or equivalent.
- Minimum of five years of professional experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain management, or logistics, including experience with ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, or comparable global transportation services.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing sourcing strategies, leading competitive bid events, negotiating complex commercial agreements, and managing multi‑year supplier contracts.
- Proven ability to analyze transportation rates, shipment data, supplier proposals, and market information to support sourcing and negotiation decisions.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to organize, validate, analyze, and summarize large datasets using
About the role
with summary paragraph.Responsibilities
with- list of responsibilities (preserve all). Need to extract bullet points from responsibilities block. The responsibilities block is a long paragraph with sentences separated by periods. We need to split into list items. We'll create
- for each distinct responsibility sentence.
Let's parse responsibilities:
"Develop, maintain, and execute global procurement strategies for ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage services, covering an annual spend of approximately $25 million."
"Lead global and regional sourcing events, commercial negotiations, supplier selections, contract development, and contract renewals for the assigned logistics categories."
"Monitor global transportation markets and translate into procurement strategies"
"Establish category-specific procurement plans that align with Momentive’s business requirements, supply chain strategies, service expectations, sustainability objectives, and financial targets."
"Manage strategic relationships with ocean carriers, air freight providers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and other logistics service providers to ensure reliable capacity, competitive costs, operational flexibility, and continuity of supply."
"Establish supplier performance expectations including scorecards, business reviews, corrective-action plans, and continuous-improvement initiatives focused on cost, service, capacity, quality, compliance, and responsiveness."
"Partner with regional commodity managers and logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, commercial, finance, legal, and Global Trade Compliance stakeholders to align global strategies with regional and local operating requirements."
"Serve as the primary procurement escalation point for commercial, contractual, capacity, service, and supplier-performance issues involving the assigned logistics modes. Support the business in resolving significant operational issues while maintaining appropriate procurement relationships."
"Develop and maintain contingency strategies for critical trade lanes"
"Ensure contracts and sourcing decisions support applicable legal, regulatory, safety, dangerous-goods, customs, trade-compliance, insurance, and Responsible Care requirements."
"Represent Procurement in digitalization initiatives such as Transportation Management System (TMS) implementation, data visibility, and process improvements that strengthen shipment execution, freight-cost management, and performance measurement."
Also there is "20 - 30% Travel" after responsibilities? Actually appears after responsibilities block before Qualifications. That's not a responsibility but maybe a note. We could include under About the role or maybe as a separate line but not a heading. Since no Schedule section, we could include travel note in About the role paragraph or as a separate
. Probably include in About the role. Now Requirements (required qualifications): List: - BS/BA degree or equivalent. - Minimum of five years of professional experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain management, or logistics, including experience with ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, or comparable global transportation services. - Demonstrated experience developing and executing sourcing strategies, leading competitive bid events, negotiating complex commercial agreements, and managing multi-year supplier contracts. - Proven ability to analyze transportation rates, shipment data, supplier proposals, and market information to support sourcing and negotiation decisions. - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to organize, validate, analyze, and summarize large datasets using common tools in the application - Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Teams, with the ability to prepare sourcing recommendations, presentations, reports, and stakeholder communications. - Comfort using Microsoft 365 Copilot or other company-approved AI tools to analyze information, develop initial drafts and improve productivity, while independently validating outputs and following company data-security requirements. - Demonstrated ability to negotiate complex agreements in English. - Ability to communicate effectively with employees, suppliers, and leaders at all organizational levels through clear verbal communication, professional business writing, data-driven recommendations, and executive-level presentations. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present data-driven recommendations to senior leaders and negotiate effectively with global suppliers. Note some duplication (communication). We'll keep as list. Qualifications (preferred): - Experience procuring international transportation and logistics services in the chemical, specialty materials, manufacturing or other regulated industry. - Working knowledge of dangerous-goods transportation, customs and trade compliance, carrier capacity management and international supply-chain risk. - Experience managing global ocean carriers, air freight providers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, 3PLs or 4PLs. - Relevant professional certification, such as CPSM, CSCP, CIPS, PMP, Lean or Six Sigma. - Additional language skills and experience working in a global, cross-cultural environment. Skills: maybe we could extract specific skills like Excel, Microsoft 365, Copilot, negotiation, communication, data analysis, etc. But we already have many under Requirements. To avoid duplication, we could put Skills separate focusing on soft/technical skills not covered? However instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one "Requirements" section and maybe not have Skills. But we need to follow headings list but only include when real content. We could omit Skills if content would be thin. But we have many skill items; we could still include Skills but risk duplication. Better to include Skills as a section highlighting specific abilities: Excel, Microsoft 365, Copilot, negotiation, communication, data analysis, presentation. But those are already in Requirements. However we could still include them; duplication may be okay but instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; not to invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is not prohibited but could be considered redundant. Safer to not duplicate; we can put Skills as a short list of distinct skill items not captured elsewhere: maybe "Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel", "Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications", "Comfort using Microsoft 365 Copilot", "Ability to negotiate complex agreements in English", "Strong written and verbal communication skills", "Ability to present data-driven recommendations to senior leaders". Those are indeed in Requirements but we could still list them; it's okay. Alternatively we could omit Skills section and just have Requirements (including both required and preferred) and Benefits and Pay. But headings list includes Skills; we can omit if no specific content beyond what's already covered. The instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". If we put Skills but content is just repeating, it's still specific content (skills). It's not filler. So we can include. Now Benefits: list items. Pay: Base Pay Range and incentive info. Now produce HTML fragment. We must not include or . Just output the fragment. Let's craft. We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed. We'll produce:
About the role
In this role you will develop and execute Momentive’s global procurement strategies for ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage services. You will manage supplier relationships, sourcing events, negotiations, contracts, and commercial performance across these logistics categories. Working closely with regional logistics commodity and logistics managers, as well as key business stakeholders, you will ensure alignment between global strategies and regional requirements. You will be accountable for delivering competitive logistics costs, securing reliable capacity, driving strong supplier performance, and managing commercial and supply risks across Momentive’s global transportation network. The role involves 20‑30% travel.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and execute global procurement strategies for ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage services, covering an annual spend of approximately $25 million.
- Lead global and regional sourcing events, commercial negotiations, supplier selections, contract development, and contract renewals for the assigned logistics categories.
- Monitor global transportation markets and translate into procurement strategies.
- Establish category-specific procurement plans that align with Momentive’s business requirements, supply chain strategies, service expectations, sustainability objectives, and financial targets.
- Manage strategic relationships with ocean carriers, air freight providers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and other logistics service providers to ensure reliable capacity, competitive costs, operational flexibility, and continuity of supply.
- Establish supplier performance expectations including scorecards, business reviews, corrective-action plans, and continuous-improvement initiatives focused on cost, service, capacity, quality, compliance, and responsiveness.
- Partner with regional commodity managers and logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, commercial, finance, legal, and Global Trade Compliance stakeholders to align global strategies with regional and local operating requirements.
- Serve as the primary procurement escalation point for commercial, contractual, capacity, service, and supplier‑performance issues involving the assigned logistics modes; support the business in resolving significant operational issues while maintaining appropriate procurement relationships.
- Develop and maintain contingency strategies for critical trade lanes.
- Ensure contracts and sourcing decisions support applicable legal, regulatory, safety, dangerous‑goods, customs, trade‑compliance, insurance, and Responsible Care requirements.
- Represent Procurement in digitalization initiatives such as Transportation Management System (TMS) implementation, data visibility, and process improvements that strengthen shipment execution, freight‑cost management, and performance measurement.
Requirements
- BS/BA degree or equivalent.
- Minimum of five years of professional experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain management, or logistics, including experience with ocean freight, air freight, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, or comparable global transportation services.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing sourcing strategies, leading competitive bid events, negotiating complex commercial agreements, and managing multi‑year supplier contracts.
- Proven ability to analyze transportation rates, shipment data, supplier proposals, and market information to support sourcing and negotiation decisions.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to organize, validate, analyze, and summarize large datasets using