As a Senior Procurement Specialist, you will be is the owner of your designated categories. You will be responsible for creating, influencing, and implementing sourcing strategies on a local level including new or changing items, P2P (Procure to Pay) channel management, and leading supplier relationship management. You will have ownership over ensuring supply strategies for your categories short and long-term, data collection and analysis.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of local material risk mitigation plans and sourcing strategies
• Perform any data retrieval, analysis and representation required, mapping how ordering and channels work within the locations serviced and identify improvements to be targeted
• Interface with local suppliers to assist with supplier development, supplier relationship management, or supplier switch out activities to support the sourcing strategy
• Assure localized requirements are communicated to supply base
• Integrate innovation, renovation and post award cost improvement elements from suppliers and the local business into all in scope functional or site/production processes
• Support future scenario planning for the business for your owned categories
• Perform other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related field
• 3+ years’ purchasing, strategic sourcing, procurement, customer service, sales, finance, logistics or related supply chain experience
• Fluent in English
• SAP system experience is an advantage 
• Previous experience in a multinational compnay is an advantage