Job # OCP25415

Job Title Procurement Specialist

Office Location Brookshire, TX

Business Function/Department PES/Procurement

Sales Territory, if applicable N/A

General Role Description

 Perform pre-purchase activities for buyers to ensure effective procurement of equipment and services

Role Accountabilities

-   Analyze demand, forecast, and on-hand inventory to ensure buyers' purchase requisition queues are accurate

-   Negotiate non-disclosure agreements for new suppliers, as required

-   Coordinate with engineering to implement bill of material changes and manage new or obsolete materials

-   Coordinate procurement activities with the planning and engineering departments for product revisions and obsolete units

-   Execute special optimization and continuous improvement projects as directed by the Procurement Manager, as needed

-   Identify and recommend opportunities for efficiency in the procurement process, and implement as requested

-   Serve as point of contact for engineering and special projects

-   Update item master prices, as necessary

-   Notify suppliers to issue invoices after equipment, materials, and services have been received, and are past due

-   Enter schedules and shipping details in ERP, as necessary

General Employee Accountabilities

-   Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-   Give manager best advice

-   Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-   Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-   Exemplify Company Core Values:  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-   Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-   Recommend viable improvements proactively

-   Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

-   Associates degree in business, supply chain management, or industrial distribution, or equivalent via education and/or work experience

-   3 years purchasing or demand analysis experience

-   Demonstrated knowledge of purchasing and sourcing systems

-   Proficiency in an ERP purchasing system

-   Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

-   Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

-   Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

-   Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and Outlook

-   Availability to travel domestically and internationally less than 5%, with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

-   Bachelors degree in business, supply chain management or industrial distribution

-   Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment

-   Advanced Excel skills

-   Proficiency in Oracle

-   Project management experience

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