Procurement Specialist - Indirect

Join to apply for the Procurement Specialist - Indirect role at Lamb Weston LATAM
.

Location:

Eagle,

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry and a public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world. A highly innovative global corporation with a start‑up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference.

You’ll gain access to hands‑on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

We’re looking for someone with a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and an eagerness for a fresh challenge.

The Procurement Specialist – Indirect works in cooperation with the global or Regional Category teams to support the development and execution of sourcing practices for MRO and Capex. The key activities include interacting with cross‑functional stakeholders to manage spend and market analytics, generating insights from bid events, preparing supplier negotiation materials, supporting project execution and supplier relationship management, and driving controls and compliance (including definition of buying channels, execution, and monitoring of those).

The role acts as a point of interaction between Manufacturing Plants, Global Engineering, and Facility Management.

• Participate in strategic planning and the execution of sourcing practices.
• Define requirements and templates for analytics and market intelligence.
• Support the continuous improvement and standardization of the strategic sourcing processes.
• Analyze spend baseline, Category Area profile, and market insights to support the development of Category and supplier strategies.
• Support the development of Go‑To‑Market and negotiation strategies in alignment with the Category Manager and ensure proper documentation thereof.
• Perform supplier analysis including supplier screening, financials, and capability assessments to support the supplier selection process.
• Execute end‑to‑end sourcing projects for less complex categories.
• Perform supplier selection and fact‑based negotiations.
• Provide support to regions and countries on a case‑by‑case basis to offset local or global skills gaps (bring specific Category or technical knowledge to key stakeholder meetings and negotiations).
• Build up a knowledge repository and encourage active enhancement by Global areas based on local experience.
• Assist and drive stakeholder alignment.
• Actively engage with stakeholders as defined in alignment throughout the strategy development and sourcing execution process.
• Coordinate operational interfacing and interactions.
• Escalate issues to the appropriate level in the organization.
• Assist and actively support supplier relationship management.
• Drive supplier performance by lifting and shifting best practices from one region to another region.
• Monitor, control and report KPIs for the assigned category.
• Record and track productivity and payment terms.
• Travel expectation of 25%.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
• 3 years’ experience in purchasing or supply chain required.
• Experience in contracting and sourcing of categories.
• Preferred background with plant operations.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• SAP and Ariba experience preferred.
• Ability to prioritize work with multiple timelines and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities or projects.
• Excellent problem‑solving, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Lead and demonstrate cross‑functional team management.

• Most work is performed in a temperature‑controlled office environment.
• Incumbent may sit for long periods of time at a desk or computer terminal.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to…