Senior Associate, Procurement

L3Harris Technologies is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. We provide an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

About the Role

The Procurement function is responsible for acquiring goods and services from suppliers, ensuring the right quality, quantity, timing, value, and source to optimize business performance. This role aims to achieve substantial cost reductions, increase product development speed, and enhance quality assurance through KPIs, strategic planning, supplier vetting, supplier relationship/performance management, category management, risk management, and Lean Practices.

The procurement professional will manage the life-cycle of purchase orders—from initial source selection, supplier onboarding, and vetting, through solicitation, negotiation, and awarding purchase orders, to facilitating supplier support requests, managing cost and schedule, and finalizing purchase order closeout processes.

L3Harris serves a variety of customer segments, including U.S. Federal Government, other governments, defense and aerospace, and commercial sectors, both international and domestic. Compliance with all government and agency laws and regulations is required.

Responsibilities

• Works under moderate guidance to support assigned commodities of basic to medium complexity.
• Communicates effectively with suppliers, management, and cross-functional teams to address requests and inquiries.
• Ensures all applicable program, company, compliance, engineering, quality, technical specifications, and other item-specific conformance criteria are clearly conveyed to suppliers for accountability.
• Sources, administers, manages, and closes out purchase orders based on experience, technical proficiency, commodity expertise, and supplier relationship and risk management capabilities.
• Negotiates pricing, lead times, payment terms, and executes legal documents (e.g., Non-Disclosure Agreements, Legal Agreements, Terms and Conditions).
• Reviews Purchase Order (PO) Compliance packages up to Delegation of Authority (DOA) level, including source justifications, commercial certifications, price justifications, and compliance with FAR/DFARS, FAA AMS, and DOD CPSR requirements.
• Ensures suppliers adhere to technical specifications and terms of the purchase order.
• Analyzes and ensures compliance with prime contract and program contractual, legal, technical, and quality requirements.
• Develops action plans to address supplier performance trends, mitigate risks, and resolve issues.
• Proactively communicates with suppliers to identify and resolve internal supply chain disruptions.
• Manages and resolves Supplier Support Requests (e.g., supplier deviation requests, first article inspection, supplier change notifications, engineering change notices).
• Promotes supplier relationship management practices and enhances system processes, including return-to-vendor, nonconformance requests, supplier root cause corrective actions, and supplier payments.
• Manages all aspects of supplier communications, actions, and issue resolution within a cross-functional team.
• Incorporates personal metrics into workload while understanding supplier metrics.
• May mentor others as a peer.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience, or Master’s Degree with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

Skills

• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel).
• Continuous improvement experience or certification in Lean Six Sigma (preferred).
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive problem-solving with strong decision-making capability.
• Ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Basic knowledge of FAR/DFARS, prime and program flow-down requirements, Quality Assurance Codes, and Trade Compliance Laws.
• Basic understanding of Supply Chain’s influence on the annual operating plan, including orders, sales, profit, and cash flow.

Schedule

9/80 work schedule.