Supply Chain Specialist

Essential Responsibilities

• Actively manage relationships with suppliers.
• Develop scope of work documentation, unit pricing, and contract management documents.
• Assist in the selection of suppliers & establish overall performance objectives and KPIs.
• Set up and maintain Vendor Scorecards.
• Ensure project RFPs contain accurate scopes of work, inclusions, exclusions, and completion timing expectations and are distributed and managed appropriately.
• Negotiate prices, terms, volume discounts, delivery time frames, and award contracts.
• Maintain a high degree of integrity and fairness in dealings and transactions with all suppliers and regularly monitor that activity to ensure consistency and supplier/trade relationships.
• Identify supplier capabilities gaps to ensure their projects are in our pipeline.
• Optimize the procurement process to reduce cost, redundancy, and waste.
• Improve efficiency and strengthen supply chain processes and logistics.
• Schedule and move goods and supplies.
• Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.
• Create and analyze spreadsheets with pricing and specification comparison and present data to the management team as directed.
• Maintain all price lists and assist in preparing budgets for upcoming projects.
• Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
• Review the supplier contracts to verify if the vendor is meeting expectations and service level agreements.

Qualifications & Abilities

• Associates degree in any field or completion of two years of post-secondary study.
• Two years of experience in roles scheduling and managing deadlines.
• Two years of coursework, training, or experience in inventory management and process optimization.
• Working knowledge of managing vendor or partner relationships.
• Documented coursework, training, or experience in communications, project management, data analysis, & digital technology.