Procurement Sourcing Leader

An excellent company in Pensacola, Florida, focused on the creation of renewable wind energy, is looking for a full-time Procurement Sourcing Leader to join their team. As part of North America's Indirect Sourcing team, the ideal candidate for this position would be the Go-To person for local business and act as the liaison between all Sourcing functions and local key stakeholders (Schenectady, Greenville, and Salem). Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies. Achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how the work of one's own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy sourcing strategy for key Indirect Material Sourcing Metrics such as deflation, usage reduction, and days to pay improvement.
• Lead strategic sourcing commercial negotiations with suppliers, incl. price, volumes/capacity, T&Cs, delivery, Incoterms, payment, warranty and vendor recovery for Indirect Materials and Services.
• Negotiate, implement, and manage supplier agreements.
• Serve as Indirect Sourcing business partner to local key stakeholders (Involve plant managers & functions to review regularly the cost reduction action plan and ensure deployment on time of cost reduction activities)
• Be the Sourcing representative and first point of escalation for supplier related issues
• Drive Sourcing process compliance as gatekeeper for PO placement and supplier selection.
• Assures full alignment and implementation of Global/Regional agreements/contracts made by applicable Commodity Leaders
• Support, maintain, and update key sourcing tools, processes and systems, preferred supplier list, etc
• Ensure strict adoption and implementation of all ethics and compliance regulations and train/inform relevant stakeholders
• Establish supply sources for key stakeholder needs, implementing GE Preferred vendor programs in alignment with Global Sourcing
• Communicate periodic updates of Sourcing Strategy & Performance to Plant/Regional stakeholders
• Build the monthly reporting in coordination with Global Sourcing
• Support and provide updates on Cost Reduction Initiatives
• Own sourcing specific ERPs, processes and tools. Review and improve processes. Work on special initiatives.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of Indirect Sourcing. Use prior experience and acquired expertise to execute Sourcing strategy.
• Provide informal guidance to new team members. Explain complex information to others in straightforward situations.
• Impacts projects, processes and procedures in own field. The role operates with some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities/provision of advice within an enabling discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Activities require professional judgment but may require more senior levels of guidance.
• Utilizes technical expertise and judgement to solve problems. Leverages technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or other advanced degree from an accredited university or college in Business, Economics, Engineering, or equal
• Fluent in the English language
• Strong negotiation and contracting skills
• 3-5 years sourcing experience
• Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously
• Excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; strong PC and database management skills
• Strong problem-solving and issue-resolution skills
• Project management & process improvement skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs
• Established project management skills
• Strong negotiation and contracting skills
• Experience with Oracle ERP
• Experience in Indirect Sourcing
• Lean experience

Compensation and Benefits:

• This position is full-time and pays $40.87/hour

• Hours are Monday through Friday
• Contract position
• After meeting the qualification requirements, employees are offered through Landrum: Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance, and Matching 401k

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