Senior Sourcing Specialist - Oil & Gas

Primary Services is excited to announce the role of Senior Sourcing Specialist - Oil & Gas for our client, a leader in their industry. This position offers a fantastic opportunity to leverage your expertise in category strategy, market intelligence, and sustainability.

Responsibilities:

• Develops comprehensive category strategies that align with stakeholder goals and strategies by utilizing market intelligence, demand management, sustainability, supplier diversity and total cost of ownership.
• Identifies and elevates areas of highest risk within the category and leads multi-functional teams to develop actionable risk mitigation strategies.
• Identify, successfully get support from the appropriate stakeholders, and delivers cost savings projects to meet organizational savings targets.
• Develop and provide spend analytics, market research and cost modeling for internal purposes and to business unit client in support of category strategies
• Build strong working relationships with key natural gas utility stakeholders
• Leverage industry knowledge and technology to establish should cost models, identify opportunities for spend leverage and drive supplier negotiations
• Actively monitor industry trends and best practices related to category assignments and incorporate them into category and execution plans and present to business unit clients as appropriate.
• Research and develop a working knowledge of the assigned commodities/services or areas of responsibilities, including how the commodities/services are made, rendered, specification requirements, and how the commodities/services are used by the Company.
• Work with business unit to formulate and define the scope and objective of purchases to fully understand entire purchase/service requirement and to assess risks.

Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Communications or other related discipline
• Experience: 5 years of relevant work experience required in strategic sourcing with responsibilities for large, complex negotiations and a proven record of achieving bottom-line savings for year-over-year sustainable cost reduction.
• Strong analytical mindset that translates to operational strategies. Has experience with driving value through understanding market dynamics along with a working knowledge of category management principles.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills. Experience with mentoring of junior procurement specialists and is seen as a leader within the team/organization.
• Experience with SAP and strong Excel skills.