Procurement Analyst

Illinois  ‐ Onsite
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Support Category Managers and perform activities to source, manage, maintain, and implement contracts and purchase orders and the associated databases.

Maintenance of PassPort contract, purchase order and inventory modules to ensure complete and accurate information. Support and maintain purchase order module to ensure complete and accurate information.

Support, manage and implement the process that controls changes to customer requirements on material requests, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, vendor exceptions, receiving reconciliation, engineering specifications, category IDs, business unit disputes with the suppliers, deviations from normal Supply processes, and emergent requests.

Support and perform day to day process resolution including: unenterable invoices, supplier changes and adds, unit of measure changes, economies of scale identification and changes. Investigate and correct issues associated with mismatch invoices; contracts, purchase orders, deliveries, shipping, expediting orders, quality, and receiving.

Support and implement the process that monitors and reports out on supplier performance trends, savings opportunities and achieved, discounts, and settlement agreements.

Support the work plan and outage schedule requirements for material and services requirements.

Actively participate on change management, commodity strategy and procurement teams representing material availability to ensure compliance to Supply Chain Management operational goals

Sourcing activities related to the purchase of materials or services.

Implementation of the Strategic Sourcing objectives and alliance partnerships to ensure consistent quality of material and timely delivery, price savings, and overall supply chain improvements.

Maintenance of a qualified supplier pool is available.

Communicates across business units, with Suppliers, and other stakeholders to successfully source and purchase materials and services.

Oversees the Implementation of supply chain monitoring activities through the use of performance indicators and trend analysis; the mitigation of supply chain risk and the resolution of supply process issue resolution. Oversees the implementation of supplier performance monitoring and associated performance improvement initiatives

Manages complex, high dollar purchasing activities.

SKILLS:

  • Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, science or related field with five (5) years experience or High school diploma or equivalent, with 7-10 years of experience
  • Excellent PC and computer skills (Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Passport, Hyperion)
  • Excellent communicator, written and oral, with strengths in organization, planning and negotiation skills
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Working knowledge of the Inventory, Purchasing, and Accounts Payable modules of Passport (Purchasing, Contracts, and Action Tracking); and eSourcing tool.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Use and understand effective change management skills and strategies.
  • Understanding of commodities, suppliers, market alignments and supply concepts and technical and non-technical clients.
  • Must have experience in services, not materials.
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
22.11.2014
Project ID:
812329
Contract type
Freelance
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