Strategic Sourcing Specialist; ONSITE

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Full Time Professional Mountain Pass, CA, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Company Overview:

MP Materials (NYSE: MP) is on a mission to restore the full rare earth supply chain to the United States of America. From electric cars to wind turbines and drones, rare earths are essential to the low-carbon, electrified technologies that power modern life. We hire ambitious, mission-driven people motivated to solve problems and affect change. Our values are grounded in teamwork, resiliency, and integrity, with an enduring commitment to our employees, community, and the environment.

In the coming years, MP Materials will grow from a core materials and chemical processing company into a large industrial manufacturer. Our employees will lead this exciting transformation and grow professionally with us.

Position Overview:

This position is responsible for purchasing and negotiating materials, equipment, and services from suppliers. The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the procurement field and relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals to perform a variety of tasks. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Attention to detail is critical.

Position Responsibilities:

• Purchase materials, equipment, and services for maintenance, repairs, and operation of the Mine in the best interests of the company. Serves as company representative in negotiations with suppliers.
• Creates purchase orders and agreements. Ensures transactions are managed in a seamless process from order entry through invoice payment. Maintains supporting documentation for all purchases.
• Utilizes practices such as RFQ, bid analysis, and negotiation to ensure maximized value from expenditures. Seek new practices and methods to increase the value of services.
• Reviews approved requisitions, creates purchase orders, and manages the PO lifecycle from creation to closing.
• Maintains consistent communication between suppliers and internal parties. Works to resolve problems that affect company quality and delivery commitments.
• Provide technical and expert counsel to internal customers on topics such as purchasing policies, purchasing processes, supplier sourcing, and SAP requirements for purchasing.
• Liaises with other procurement and legal professionals to assure that contractual terms and conditions are acceptable and serve to minimize risk. Evaluates competitive bids and quotations.
• Negotiates agreements that achieve lowest cost for materials balanced against optimum quantity, reliability and on-time delivery metrics.
• Maintains awareness of current market conditions, new products, and supply sources for assigned commodities, new technologies, and methods that enhance value of purchasing process.
• Identifies key purchasing criteria for each material or service being sourced. Evaluates with suppliers to determine factors that affect price and availability. Performs market analysis and utilizes standardized criteria in identification and selection of potential sources of supply.
• Supports development of estimates by obtaining proposals for materials and services needed in support of the mine operations.
• Receives and reviews purchase requisitions for materials and services for completeness and proper level of approval. Issues and tracks purchase commitments to ensure timely delivery and acceptable performance by suppliers.
• Proficiency in total life cycle cost or other commercial analysis and process improvement methods utilized to support company…