12+ month renewable term contract. Likely to extend multi-year / option to hire.
Client: A major global corporation and a leader in their industry operating over 350 manufacturing facilities with annual revenue earning over $24B and employing over 15,000.
Overview:
The Procurement Specialist will coordinate capital expenditure project purchases from bid to delivery. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring all deliverables such as design drawings, approvals, factory acceptance tests (FATs), site acceptance tests (SATs), etc. are delivered per the agreed contract terms and payments are made in accordance with terms. Risk related to purchases will be managed, and any defined threats to the project will be escalated to the project team in accordance with the project organizational structure. The role will coordinate with the vendors as well as various other groups inside and outside of the organization.
Role:
- Prepare construction contracts, consulting agreements, letters of authorization and other contract documents for the CAPEX organization consistent with procurement.
- Execute standard construction agreements with inputs from the project team.
- Ensure documents are prepared and electronically filed consistently across the department.
- Develop relationship with North America and Global procurement teams to coordinate execution of non-standard agreements.
- Manage collection of forecasted/capital contract strategies with a 0+3-year outlook; summarize, group and communicate procurement needs to North American Procurement and at Market Procurement to leverage requirements against projects.
- Create and update purchase orders in SAP
- Participate in negotiations led by the global procurement team to gather required commercial information for purchase order execution
- Coordinate supplier requests for changes to terms and conditions to drive to a fully executed agreement
- Manage the flow of information, goods, and services to and from equipment suppliers in connection with purchase orders for capital projects. .
- Review scheduled shipment dates and confirm on-time delivery.
- Review scheduled drawing deliverables and confirm on time delivery.
- Ensure purchase order milestones are complete to validate invoice payments.
- Manage internal and external communications through a group mailbox
- Develop relationships with suppliers and clients to promote the availability of supplier resources to meet and exceed project needs.
- Develop communication strategy with suppliers to promote proactive escalations for contract deliverables and/or contract milestones at risk.
- Develop a risk mitigation or recovery plan with suppliers when milestones dates are at risk
- Ensure drawings are submitted as instructed (using BIM tool) and coordinate with suppliers if instructions are not followed.
- Develop metrics to track vendor performance.
- Develop relationships internally with engineers and project management to communicate any risks to meeting contract milestones and/or contract deliverables.
- Develop an Issues Report to help drive the team to act and make decisions.
- Partner with project teams up front to define the expediting strategy of each capital project.
- Report on project procurement status to finance, engineering management, and project management.
- Utilize Microsoft Excel, Power Apps, SharePoint, SAP and other software.
Qualifications:
- 5 – 7+ years previous experience in procurement, supply chain, or purchasing (buyer role) in construction and/or capital equipment purchasing.
- SAP software purchasing module experience (SAP PO creation) is a plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite products, including but not limited to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and SharePoint.
- Manufacturing experience is highly desired.