Description
Summary:
Seeking a Procurement professional to evaluate and develop MRO suppliers, lead commercial topics, define sourcing strategy, and manage supplier relationships for a facility.
Highlights:
1. Lead commercial topics and define sourcing strategy with key stakeholders
2. Own commercial relationships, manage contracts, and drive deflation plans
3. Identify and implement supply base improvement opportunities
**Job Description:**
Evaluate, define \& develop MRO suppliers that could supply Torreon Facility. Lead \& close commercial topics with selected vendors, define sourcing strategy and make deployment with Torreon facility main stakeholders. Support \& Maintain supplier base upon ramp up and once in production upon escalation requests
**Duties and Responsibilities**
* Own commercial relationship with this supplier base, mange contracts, negotiations, pricing, asset management, deflation plans etc.
* Establish and maintain reliable sources of supply to ensure timely procurement of all assigned goods, materials, and services.
* Owner of assigned supply base and responsible for all management related to supplier performance.
* Identifies and implements supply base improvement opportunities to support both short term and long\-term production / product needs.
* Completes data analyses and generates reports to drive spend visibility and identify opportunities for supply base optimization.
* Build partnerships with internal stakeholders to gather and understand the requirements of their procurement needs; facilitate communication between business units, internal stakeholders, and suppliers
* Participates in the development, review, and approval of supplier selection methodologies.
* Develop expertise in applicable manufacturing processes and capabilities, materials, applications, and industry trends.
* Prepares and executes RFP/RFQ's and analyzes quotations and bids.
* Proactively coordinates the supplier selection and qualification process
* Conducts, analyzes, and shares cost break down analysis to aide negotiations of per unit cost; drives best overall cost and commercial terms
* Supports cost savings reviews, standard setting, commodity, and financial reviews
* Conduct research on market dynamics, cost drivers, supplier business models, and historical spend to support negotiations for assigned categories and contracts
* Manage supplier relationship including communicating risks/opportunities with cross functional teams
* Support the building of long\-term commercial relationships with strategic suppliers.
**Job Skills Requirements**
* Bachelor’s degree in supply chain/Logistics, Engineering, Business,
* or related technical field.
* Specific course work in purchasing, materials management,
* engineering, or quality assurance desirable
* Basic Communication Skills course/certification is preferred
**Experience Requirements**
* Min 5 years' experience in similar role. Experience working with MRO, Service providers, CAPEX, PO management, etc.
**Physical \& Environmental Requirements**
* Willingness to travel domestically and/or globally (up to 40%).