Procurement Sourcing Specialist

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Senior Specialist, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Job Description

The Senior Specialist, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement plays a key role in delivering innovative, high-quality products on time and at competitive prices. Working under the leadership of the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Manager, this role applies sourcing and procurement best practices to manage contracts, develop and maintain strong supplier relationships, and support stakeholders across the organization. The Senior Specialist supports departments with general contracting and procurement requirements, identifies and acquires goods and services in a timely and efficient manner within purchasing policies, and provides cross-functional support for the Procure-to-Pay process.

This position maintains regular communication between leadership, internal customers, business groups, and suppliers to ensure a resilient and efficient supply base.

• Obtain customer requirements and coordinate communications between Engineering, Operations, Sales, and Project Management to ensure customer needs are clearly understood and supported.
• Research, evaluate, and qualify suppliers based on customer requirements and organizational needs to build a robust and reliable supply base.
• Provide customer-facing support by coordinating and organizing deliverables required to bid on new customer programs and to set up new customers.
• Maintain and continuously improve the new customer setup process, including standardizing internal relationships and forms required to support new business.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and suppliers to negotiate agreements or develop statements of work that fully support business needs.
• Grow and diversify the supply base to support business continuity and enable competitive supplier bidding.
• Develop both long-term and short-term customer support and supplier strategies that align with organizational objectives.
• Own supplier communications and supplier relationship management, including translating customer forecasts and providing supplier capacity updates.
• Promote long-term, fair, and respectful supplier relationships that prioritize business needs while aligning with core values.
• Collaborate with Legal to ensure sales agreements and contracts are prioritized, properly structured, and represent organizational interests.
• Own and develop a standardized, scalable supplier bid process capable of supporting significant organizational growth.
• Perform and maintain supplier screening activities for all current suppliers based on established or newly developed policies and guidelines.
• Conduct continuous process reviews to identify value-added and non-value-added activities, promote best practices, and increase efficiency.
• Resolve invoice holds through direct supplier interaction, cycle counts, and systems investigation to ensure timely payment and accurate records.
• Conduct regular supplier financial reviews and risk assessments to identify and mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities.
• Train internal customers and drive compliance with requisition and purchase order processes, as well as invoice approval procedures.
• Maintain a comprehensive contracts repository that includes valid agreements, statements of work, certificates of insurance, and supporting documentation to minimize risk and prevent contract expirations.
• Advise management of potential issues in the supply chain and recommend measures to address and mitigate those issues.
• Ensure the supply base is formally informed of organizational requirements and implement a supplier audit framework to ensure compliance, measure performance, and identify supply chain risks.
• Take ownership of the full supply chain and fulfillment stream, including early detection…