Vaco Boston has partnered with a leading manufacturing company North of Boston. The Procurement team is looking to bring on a Senior Procurement Specialist. This would be a hybrid position looking for someone to start ASAP. Please reach out for a full job description and immediate consideration
Key Responsibilities:- Manage and build strong relationships with suppliers.
- Negotiate costs and contracts with suppliers.
- Work cross-functionally with various departments.
- Maintain purchase contracts, confidentiality agreements, and purchase/price files.
- Approve pricing for order requisitions to suppliers.
- Support production planning to ensure delivery of raw material/supplies.
- Assist with customer quality assessments and audits.
- Analyze trends in the market.
- Maintain SAP system, RFQ issue and Quote review requirements
- Ability to analyze cost calculation and cost drivers and use them to evaluate, develop and delivery cost reduction strategies
- Negotiate pricing with suppliers and process quotations
- Establish logical new model cost targets
- Achieve cost targets through effective supplier selection and negotiation
Qualifications:
* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
* Proficient in Microsoft Office.
* Experience with Oracle, Microsoft D365 or another MRP application.
