Essential Functions:
• Planning, creating, and processing timely requisitions and purchase orders for raw materials, sub-assemblies, finished goods, and services.
• Researching and identifying prospective suppliers of assigned categories.
• Seek to reduce dependency on single-source suppliers through contracts and strategic partnerships.
• Ensuring commercial, legal and contractual compliance in all the procurement transactions.
• Executing RFPs and RFIs that are essential to the continued business support
• Working with the Quality Team for inspection upon delivery to ensure orders are filled correctly and that goods meet specifications.
• Developing strong relationships with key suppliers and measure suppliers’ performance based on cost, quality, delivery, and service level.
• Communicating with suppliers daily and organizing meetings and projects as needed to resolve supply issues.
• Initiating corrective actions on defected materials and/or unexpected services conducted and following through the resolution with suppliers.
• Working with other internal departments such as finance, sales, and operations to resolve issues and concerns.
• Teamwork – An ability to develop and nurture good working relationships with colleagues in other departments by collaborating and working toward the common goals.
• Be proficient in SAP for the purchasing of materials and goods.
• Executing reports from within SAP and exporting to analyze.
• Maintain the SRM (Internal System) for the Procurement requirements within this system