Procurement Specialist-Manufacturing

Holtec International is seeking a Procurement Specialist to join our Material Procurement Group. This hands-on position requires the associate to be a strong communicator, have outstanding negotiating skills and be able to grasp and maintain the company's bottom line. The Procurement Specialist must not only be able to establish and grow quality business contacts with supply vendors but be able to objectively budget the purchase of those products with the company's best interests in mind.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensure that the Procurement Policy and relevant Procurement Procedures are strictly applied.
• Self-manage workload and assist other Procurement Specialists or Production Project Leads, as necessary, to complete requisite duties for achievement of customer projects.
• Identifying supplier contract changes, communicating with the manufacturing facilities to find root cause issues, and creating transition plans with the Procurement Manager
• Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of the Procurement Strategy, Policy, and Procedures
• Foster competition among suppliers, leverage agreements across the enterprise, manage risk and promote cost savings and reduction where possible.
• Maintain supportive relationships and communicate regularly with qualified, consistent, and reputable supplier sources, while locating, researching, and expanding supplier base
• Receive and analyze requests for materials, goods and services.
• Negotiate pricing and business terms and, when appropriate, coordinate purchase effort with the Legal Department to minimize risk.
• Prepare and submit purchase orders.
• Plan, track and manage orders to meet daily delivery requirements aged inventory.
• Completes purchasing requests and transactions.

Qualified candidates should possess the following:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10 years of Procurement experience negotiating supply agreements.
• Steel or Metal buying experience necessary.
• Team oriented strategy development and implementation
• Strong vendor interface as well as excellent negotiation and communication skills
• Ability to review technical specifications and drawings.
• Demonstrated knowledge of purchasing practices, supply chain management and contract law as it applies to the procurement process.
• Strong ability to support cross-functional teams. Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Proven presentation skills
• Experience creating and managing large RFPs.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to identify milestones and meet deadlines.
• Experience with the steel market and procuring steel directly from steel mills is a plus.