Purchasing Specialist

Position: Purchasing Specialist

Become a Purchasing Specialist and build a better tomorrow. In this job, youll be supporting sourcing strategies for the energy infrastructure of tomorrow in areas such as transportation electrification, energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy storage, customer experience, and Information Technology within the Indirect Procurement (IP) team. The Indirect Procurement group manages over $1.2 billion in annual spend for Information Technology, Customer Service, Professional Services, and Consulting Services.

Its challenging but deeply rewarding work. Your interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills will be fully exercised as you manage a variety of strategies that focus on value creation, cost savings, continuous improvement, and risk mitigation. You will be responsible for supporting the development and optimization of sourcing strategies and continuous improvement initiatives. You will lead/participate in competitive solicitations, supplier selection, achievement of applicable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), contract negotiations, and development.

Responsibilities

• Assists in driving innovation, improving ways of working, and enhancing supplier management systems

• Aids in executing purchasing and sourcing strategies, addressing short-term and long-term material requirements to achieve the purchasing performance metrics of timely delivery, right quality, and optimum cost

• Assists with the undertaking of analysis supporting the resolution of risk issues and gap identification

• Participates in the negotiation process to achieve best value and commercial terms and conditions of moderately complex purchase orders, change orders, requests for proposals, and contracts/agreements

• Aids in training peers and other stakeholders on the procurement process

• Helps maintain effective stakeholder relationships with internal customers to become a trusted business partner

• Aids in identifying critical suppliers and creates appropriate engagement plans to ensure the supply chain risk profile and inputs to continuous improvement are proactively managed

• Helps understand suppliers position, desired outcomes, and leverage points and establishes structured negotiation plans with clarity of desired outcomes, leveraging stakeholder input and support where appropriate

Note: A material job duty of all positions is ensuring the protection of all physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using SAP software in a purchasing environment, and utilizing Ariba Sourcing, Contracting, and P2P modules

• Experience sourcing new vendors

• Experience leading a Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation (RFQ), or Request for Information (RFI) process

• Knowledge and decision-making experience of purchasing practices and policies, and knowledge of procurement contracts and standard terms and conditions

• Experience with industry best practices, standards, utility regulations, procedures and compliance as they relate to purchasing

• Experience prioritizing and managing multiple projects simultaneously, and analyzing information and making strategic decisions regarding scope, impact, policy, development, and implementation

• CPM, CPSM, CPCM, CCCM, and/or PMP certification(s)