Procurement Specialist Job Columbus area,Indiana USA,Supply Chain/Logistics

The candidate will be responsible for attending and leading meetings with the procurement team, tracking project progress, following up on action items, and providing updates to leadership. Experience with purchase orders (POs) and supplier management is highly preferred for this role.
Open to candidates with a degree in Supply Chain Management or a degree in another field combined with relevant experience.
This position is expected to last 6 months to 1 year, with a Monday–Friday schedule from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, working fully onsite.
Once the hiring manager is ready to move forward, selected candidates will be invited to participate in a 45-minute, in-person interview.

Description:

Project Management skills to drive Procurement project
Keep project information accurate:
Check that project records contain the required part numbers, savings information, project owners, and approval references.
Track deadlines and follow up:
Monitor upcoming and overdue milestones, follow up with project owners, and track their plans to bring delayed projects back on schedule.
Coordinate project readiness:
Track engineering-resource assignments, required reviews, and open questions so projects are ready to move to the next stage.
Follow up on approvals:
Work with Procurement, Finance, Engineering, and the project-management office to close pending approvals.
Support cost-saving business cases:
Help maintain tariff-saving templates and check assumptions with Finance and Sourcing.
Prepare management updates:
Compile completed projects, savings, project status, and future cost-saving opportunities for review meetings.

Summary:

Conducts complex analysis of markets, supply chains, and supply base; applies analysis to purchasing process improvement initiatives.
Identifies qualified suppliers and executes sound source selection processes.
Has regular interface with suppliers within area of responsibility and maintains the supplier relationship.
Understands how key purchasing principles are used toward assuring supply.

Key Responsibilities:

Independently carries out sourcing activities with full consideration for the impact of those activities on the end-to-end supply chain.
Executes sourcing tactics of varying complexity in accordance with established category/commodity strategies reflecting the optimum cost, quality, delivery.
Participates in sourcing and commodity strategy formulation.
Analyzes complex sourcing and purchasing initiatives and processes in support of the delivery of cost effective and high-quality goods and services.
Prepares and presents to senior purchasing/sourcing leadership recommendations of improvement opportunities and alternative courses of action.
Ensures consistent application of sourcing procedures and processes.
Supports purchasing/sourcing management in activities such as price benchmarking, vendor management, industry and market analysis, process analysis, and model building.
May lead a team of sourcing analysts and specialists at the business unit and/or international purchasing organization (IPO) regional level.
Leads analysis projects/initiatives providing coaching to less experienced analysts and specialists.
Negotiates select contracts.
Develops and maintains effective relationships with suppliers to the benefit of both parties.
Understands the importance of compliance and is alert to situations that can pose risk to Client Inc.

Qualifications and

Competencies:

Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
Business insight
- Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals.
Negotiations Excellence - Utilizes tools and methods in negotiations to achieve Client stakeholder objectives and achieve a mutually agreed upon all…