Buying Professional

Come join our team. Our client is looking for a Buying Professional for an 11-month contract in Houston, TX 77043.

A leading global energy technology company focuses on providing innovative solutions and services across the entire energy value chain. With a robust portfolio that encompasses power generation, transmission, and distribution, committed to advancing sustainable energy practices and enhancing the efficiency and reliability of energy systems worldwide.

Contract Duration: 11 Months
Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience.
• Senior professional expertise, with extensive functional, commercial, and/or technical knowledge in an area of competence.
• Deep professional know-how and experience in one Sub Job Family.
• Master domain experience.
• Transfers and applies know-how to/in various contexts experience.
• Solid professional judgment and problem-solving competence.
• Improves existing processes and approaches experience.

What You Will Be Doing Daily Responsibilities

• Implements Commodity strategies to ensure long-term, cost-efficient supply of materials.
• Contributes to implementation and ensures usage of globally defined methods, processes, and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g. compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems).
• Prepares and conducts negotiations to obtain the highest feasible savings.
• Generates, documents, and implements savings to contribute to the success of the business and make results transparent.
• Executes Supplier Management processes (e.g. qualification, selection, evaluation, development, classification).
• Ensures close cooperation with Internal Customers (requisitioners) to ensure customer care and early involvement.
• Provides supplier information to the project and conducts project-specific supplier evaluations (project evaluations).
• Identifying and analyzing internal customer needs, analyzing and discussing technical specifications, in cooperation with the Sales Management responsible or together with the technical Project Manager.
• Prepares negotiations and contracts.
• They integrate analysis, development, testing, and implementation. They interpret and functionally influence policy and guidelines in their area of business/technology and develop processes and systems to deliver functional objectives.
• Plan own work according to targets agreed, within a quarterly up to an annual cycle, by integrating resources in a project-driven environment.
• Provide functional advice and guidance to colleagues and customers.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.