Procurement Specialist

Position Type: Contract

About the role

Join a multi-national medtech company as a Procurement Specialist. On-site work is required.

Requirements

• Strong experience in SAP
• Manufacturing environment experience preferred
• Excellent organization skills

Responsibilities

• Develop complex buying strategies to purchase and arrange timely deliveries of supplies and materials; expedite as needed and serve as liaison between vendors and users
• Resolve complex delivery, quality, or other related problems with purchases and invoices
• Develop project plans and purchasing systems; review and analyze requisitions and supply plans for domestic and international purchases
• Negotiate prices, terms, and quality requirements; develop requests for quotes and new supply sources; evaluate market conditions
• Guide value analysis to identify cost improvements, develop cost-saving proposals including make-versus-buy analysis, alternative sourcing, and vendor evaluation criteria
• Manage a work queue to ensure purchase orders are issued on time
• Ensure close cooperation with internal customers (MRPCs, requisitions), engineering teams, supplier quality teams, and operations teams to ensure customer care and early involvement
• Manage a portfolio of supplier relationships, negotiate price increase requests, prepare RFQ packs, onboard suppliers, run bidding processes, and conduct negotiations for medium purchasing volumes
• Contribute to the implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes, and systems to maintain high process efficiency and compliance (e.g., compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, and IT systems)
• Support Supplier Management processes (e.g., qualification, selection, evaluation, development, classification); update supplier evaluation systems to obtain and develop the best suppliers and ensure transparency and high procurement quality
• Support and/or lead Procurement Business Plan activities