What are the responsibilities and job description for the Procurement Specialist position at Cellofoam North America Inc.?
Job Details
Description
Position Summary:
The procurement specialist's responsibilities include but not limited to sourcing new strategic suppliers, ensuring that the purchased products and materials meet specific technical specifications, negotiating purchase terms, and evaluating supplier performance. The purchasing specialist will also be responsible for ensuring timely deliveries and resolving any supply issues or discrepancies.
To be successful as a procurement specialist, you should be able to develop efficient procurement solutions and support senior management with the development and implementation of sourcing strategies. Ultimately, an outstanding purchasing specialist should have excellent communication and negotiation skills, be an analytical thinker, with high energy, uncompromised integrity and demonstrate a good working knowledge of purchasing strategies.
Essential Position Requirements (include but are not limited to):
- Liaising with internal teams to identify strategic needs and initiatives.
- Evaluating products and suppliers according to key business criteria maximize corporate volume purchases with strong cost reduction goals and tracking.
- Researching and identifying prospective suppliers.
- Establish and maintain strong, strategic supplier relations
- Requesting quotes and negotiating purchase terms and conditions.
- Preparing, issuing, scheduling and tracking purchase orders.
- Monitoring supplier performance and resolving issues and concerns.
- Reviewing reports and maintaining accurate inventory.
- Complying with Cellofoam North America Inc. policies, procedures, core values and regulatory standards.
- Adhere to Cellofoam North America Inc. company focus of Safety, Financial, Customer and People.
Qualifications
Job Qualifications
Position Requirements and Qualifications
Corporate Procurement Specialist Requirements:
- 5 years of experience as a purchasing specialist or in a similar role.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain management, or a similar field preferred.
- Logistics and Transportation Management experience.
- Good working knowledge of purchasing strategies.
- Maintaining confidentiality, with excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Great Plains and other application software, purchasing, and resource planning systems.
- Team player with strong organizational skills.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8-hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- On call
This Position Description is intended as a summary of the job responsibilities for this specific position. Cellofoam North America Inc. (the Company) reserves the right to add, remove, and/or alter job responsibilities in whole or in part with or without notice. This Position Description is not a contract. Every employee’s employment with the Company is voluntary and is subject to termination by the employee or the Company at will, with or without cause, and, with or without notice, at any time. Nothing in this Position Description or Company policies shall be interpreted to be in conflict or to eliminate or modify in any way the employment-at-will status of the Company’s employees.
