Procurement Specialist

Procurement Specialist  

Location: Onsite ONLY

 Position Overview:

As a Procurement Specialist, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop and lead commodity strategies, drive sourcing initiatives, and achieve total cost reduction objectives. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring a resilient and weatherproof supply chain for our business unit. You will take charge of high-value aerospace and industrial components sourcing activities, optimizing costs, and leading major negotiations with key suppliers to secure favorable contracts.

Responsibilities:

• Lead sourcing activities and negotiations for medium and high-value aerospace and industrial components, focusing on cost optimization and comprehensive contract coverage.
• Drive major contractual and price negotiations with existing key suppliers, ensuring favorable terms and conditions.
• Develop and implement tailored supply chain strategies that deliver long-term improvements in quality, cost, and delivery performance.
• Support internal procurement transformation programs and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate and collaborate with global supply chain management counterparts, senior stakeholders, and other procurement teams within Siemens to recommend sourcing strategies at the business unit and Siemens Energy global sourcing board levels.
• Provide regular reports on plans, activities, and results to direct and functional managers.
• Ensure strong cooperation with internal customers, ensuring early involvement and a focus on customer care.
• Promote the use of e-procurement tools to enhance data accuracy, automate processes, standardize management information dashboards, and foster supplier collaboration.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience (8 years) required.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in strategic sourcing and/or commodity management.
• Strong commercial, contractual, and project management skills, with the ability to negotiate and manage complex agreements.
• Previous experience within a manufacturing or engineering environment is preferred.
• Experience working with a global supplier base in a matrix environment.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive decision-making.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, with experience in Lean and Six Sigma methodologies for continuous improvement.
• Prior experience as a strategy consultant and/or a law degree is advantageous.

About the Team:

You will be joining a dynamic and diverse team of professionals committed to driving excellence across sourcing and procurement. Together, we work towards delivering impactful strategies and solutions that support the company's growth and success. If you are a proactive leader with a strategic mindset and a passion for continuous improvement, we invite you to apply and make a lasting impact on our supply chain operations.

Essential Job Functions:

• Ability to work in a faced-paced environment and show problem solving and multi-tasking skills
• Must be able to discern both written and verbal instructional communication
• Must be able to exchange accurate information both written and verbal

About Us:

I.K. Hofmann is a privately held woman-owned family business founded in Germany in 1985 and today has more than 110 branch offices in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, and the United States.

As an ISO 9001 certified organization, I.K. Hofmann has built a reputation for delivering the highest levels of service and quality while staying true to our founder’s vision of being a staffing firm that cares about our people. In fact our candidates rank us in the top 1% of staffing firms in the USA in terms of our Net Promotor Score with a score of 74 which is more than double the Published Staffing Firm Benchmark of 29. Don’t take our word for it though, click HERE to see why 82% of our clients and candidates HIGHLY Recommend Us, and say that we deliver one of the highest quality experiences in the staffing industry.

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