Strategic Buyer

About the Company: This position is responsible for achieving the best possible cost savings while ensuring the most beneficial supply base for the company. This includes the strategic relationship, the contracting, performance review, and improvement of the supply base.

About the Role: The following job functions are not all-inclusive. The employee will be required to perform other job-related tasks/responsibilities the supervisor requests. Job duties may change as required by the needs of the company.

Responsibilities:

• Develop strategy for sourcing events and execute the entire process, in partnership with key stakeholders
• Request and analyze requests for proposals and lead negotiation strategy
• Build robust documentation to support the sourcing events and ensure the sourcing event is compliant with requirements, including technical requirements as well as providing fair chance for every potential supplier to earn the business
• Ensures a data driven approach to category management
• Ability to develop tailored strategies, such as traditional RFQs leading to contracts for specific purchases as well as working to enable Catalogs if applicable
• Lead activities related to supplier relationship management
• Responsible for tracking and reporting savings.
• Ensure cost-effectiveness, quality and timely procurement and delivery of all supplier services
• Coordinate and support user departments on supplier pre-qualification, selection, and development processes, quotation, and tender processes in a timely and transparent manner
• Manage development and preparation of indirect purchase contracts and ensure all contract renewal reviews are done on time
• Preparing appropriate financial, analytical, and other reports
• Develops and oversees the strategic sourcing of various Capital Projects while ensuring alignment to business units and plants located throughout GA.
• Study/research best practice processes and benchmark the company processes at regular intervals.
• Assist in mitigating risk in terms of contractual exposure to the company.
• Develop and implements a preferential procurement strategy for compliance for indirect procurement.
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications:

• Possess and display Interroll s Values at all times:

1. Long-Term Thinking
2. Committed to Excellence
3. Always Respectful
4. Passionate about Customers

• Bachelor s Degree preferred.
• Possess at least five years experience in a purchasing or warehouse operation in a manufacturing environment.
• Possess working knowledge of product and parts used for manufacturing.
• Prior experience working on capital projects and/or major repairs in an industrial business setting preferred
• Prior experience working across a multi-site enterprise preferred
• Prior experience working in a globally integrated organization preferred

Physical Demands: While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands and fingers, handle, or feel and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision. The noise level in the work environment is generally quiet.

Equal Opportunity Statement: The company is committed to diversity and inclusivity.