Procurement Specialist

Job Title: Procurement Specialist

Job Location: Houston, Texas – 77043

Job Duration: 12 months (potential to convert to a permanent position)

Pay Rate: $40 per hr. on W2.

Shift: Day

DESCRIPTION:

• We seek an experienced Procurement individual highly motivated and self-driven to:
• Lead sourcing actives and negotiations for low to high value aerospace and industrial type components to optimize cost opportunities, contract coverage, and secure supply continuity.
• Undertake contractual and price negotiations with new and existing suppliers to mitigate commercial risk and optimise commercial advantage for current and future programmes.
• Carry out in depth cost breakdowns analysis (including cost estimation) and negotiate the lowest TCA in order to contribute to the divisional cost saving targets.
• Drive cost reduction and resourcing programmes to support strategy execution ensuring impact on existing supply chains are managed.
• Develop and deliver robust and integrated Commodity and Supplier strategies to provide supply chains capable of providing business needs across all stakeholder areas.
• Ensure a close cooperation with internal customers to ensure customer care and early involvement.

YOUR ROLE:

• Integrates Procurement in the project management process (PM@Siemens) and organizes, controls and monitors all Procurement activities in a project.
• Participates in project/sales meetings as project core team member to exert a shaping influence at an early stage and to optimize internal workflows and processes.
• Establishes proper sourcing and Procurement processes and controls all Procurement resources and activities in the project.
• Analyzes customer inquiries during bid preparation / opportunity management phases and exactly understands the customer's functional needs in order to include (supplier) innovations.
• Supports project calculation with reliable material cost data.
• Analyzes scope of supply and contract agreements, carries out risk analyses and introduces negotiation recommendations.
• Analyzes sales and operations planning in respect of starting / new projects, assessing and controlling of material costs within the whole project business in order to ensure the involvement of Procurement.
• Drives Procurement strategies in projects and ensures their implementation.
• Heads up contractual and price negotiations and/or supports the specialist buyers responsible for particular material fields.
• Clarifies internal indicators for project controlling and compiling all relevant information to submit qualified reports.
• Forwards systematically all relevant Procurement related project information

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS:

• Ability to work in a complex, fast changing global organisational environment.
• 10 years of experience in strategic sourcing/commodity management.
• Outstanding Excel skills.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent commercial, contractual, and project management acumen.
• Familiarity with component Manufacturing processes and Quality
• Knowledge of working with a global supplier base, in a matrix environment.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Masters degree and/or CIPS desired