Senior Procurement Job Description
Senior procurement
provides support and knowledge transfer of SAP Solutions to SME’s and End users in Procurement Supply Chain.
Senior Procurement Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective senior procurement job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included senior procurement job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Ensure Master Data and purchasing parameters are correct to fully execute site procurement strategies
Managing relationships with suppliers, Asia Pacific Procurement teams and internal customers
Responsible for maintenance of corporate procurement Globeshare including content writing to a fair extent
Drive and support in centralization of CRM reporting activities for corporate procurement, GSC Finance
Proactively seek and lead innovative ways to improve the procurement process
Plays a leadership and advisory role to clients and colleagues in handling complex procurement tasks and issues, which frequently cut across sectors, countries and/or work units
Coordinate and communicate purchasing policies and procedures to suppliers
Escalate any known supplier issues or constraints to Procurement Manager and complete any prescribed actions to resolve
Manage non-conforming materials with Supplier Quality Engineering in a timely manner and ensure any required procurement actions including but, not limited to, quarantine, return or disposal, plus follow-up on completion of supplier corrective actions
Demonstrate understanding of site procurement metrics and participates in root cause corrective measure activities as requested
Senior Procurement Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Procurement
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: APICS, CPM, CPSM, ISM, CPIM, FAC, CPCM, RCCA, CSCP, NAPM
Education for Senior Procurement
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior procurement job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Education, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Business/Administration, Management, Technical, MBA, Accounting
Skills for Senior Procurement
Desired skills for senior procurement include:
Federal Acquisition Regulations
Procurement
Supply chain processes
SAP PRISM and other procurement tools
Purchasing
ITAR and import/export requirements
Operations
SAP
FDA requirements
Desired experience for senior procurement includes:
Minimum 10+ years of engineering experience with progressive responsibilities within mechanical manufacturing environment
Good personal skills with the ability to effectively work with individuals and groups at all organization levels
Willingness to adapt to changing business needs and face to challenges
IT literate with good working knowledge of standard office tools and applications (including e-mail, MS Office etc)
Category expertise and management
Manage internal client relationships and meet/exceed their business requirements and expectations
Senior Procurement Examples
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Senior Procurement Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior procurement. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior procurement
- Work closely with Value Stream Operations and Production Control Planner to address any tactical concerns involving the flow of purchased materials to meet the production schedule
- Develop & drive procurement processes, tender activity, etc
- Development and administration activities for Request For Information (RFI), Request for Proposals (RFP) and Request for Quotes (RFQ)
- Conduct fact-finding and lead negotiations (price, schedules and terms & conditions) with suppliers
- Pre-award and post-award supplier management activities
- Participate in supplier development activity
- Negotiations (supplier price, delivery and exceptions to purchase order flowdowns, , Terms and Conditions)
- Implement and monitor supplier metrics for assigned suppliers to ensure supplier performance standards are met
- Identify opportunities for schedule agreements to reduce replenishment lead times and costs
- Implement engineering changes in a timely manner to minimize risk of both manufacturing disruption and excess inventory
Qualifications for senior procurement
- Manage vendor relationship and performance
- Strong negotiation skills to negotiate best buy purchases
- Operational Execution of sourcing strategy, project planning, analytics, negotiations, contract administration
- Bachelor of Business degree from accredited school, MBA preferred but not mandatory
- Preferably to have exposure in manufacturing or petrochemicals environment
- Be innovative, act as an effective team member with pro-activeness skill
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Our company is looking for a senior procurement. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior procurement
- Responsible for preparation and issuance of Request for Proposals / Request for Quotes (RFP/RFQs), researching and evaluating qualifications of procurement sources, prepare detailed evaluations of proposals, negotiating material to target costs
- Actively develop and manage the Procurement capability within TSP with the primary goals of improving supplier performance, achieving cost savings, managing supplier relationships, and strengthening compliance to a rigorous sourcing process
- Promote the use of existing procurement standard operating procedures to ensure that standards are being consistently adhered to and, further develop areas for process improvement
- Present findings and recommendations on complex issues or problems impacting major operations in a variety of formats
- Plan and develop quality processes, procedures, and methodologies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of work methods and management controls for a major component of Agency operations
- Develop, coordinate, and implement purchasing strategies to satisfy key technology requirements while driving for best-in-class capital efficiency
- Manage all aspects of global supplier performance, including quality, cost, operations, service, and technology
- Engage closely with internal customers such as engineering, operations, R&D, QA, and finance to ensure alignment on key performance indicators
- Develop procurement strategies to support capacity expansion, including new construction
- Deliver procurement strategy for all external supplier spend categories
Qualifications for senior procurement
- Good proficiency of English and Bahasa, both spoken and written
- Ability to lead formal negotiations (price, schedule and supplier exceptions to contractual requirements
- DoD procurement experience and knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (FAR/DFARS)
- Assure business objectives are met such as low cost materials, multiple sourcing, supplier risk assessment
- Be driven to succeed with a high sense of ownership
- Candidate must possess demonstrated project management skills and be a proven creative problem solvers
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a senior procurement. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior procurement
- Design and align procurement processes, systems, and policies with functional business processes
- Minimize cost (e.g., pricing) and maximize value (e.g., meet service expectations) in the procurement process via any number of tactics (e.g., strategic sourcing, negotiations, should-cost modelling, reverse auction)
- Implement procurement best practices for all services and categories
- Deploy the Procurement strategy of the Company and assure its implementation
- Engage with business leaders and other procurement team members to establish strategic global relationships with major vendors
- Develop, implement and maintain procurement policies and review on a regular basis to ensure relevance and conformance with best practices and ensure compliance with internal and regulatory policies
- Establish strategic goals and objectives and maintain full strategic responsibility for the Procurement organization
- Accountable for overall budget and financial performance of the Procurement organization
- The position will be responsible for accurately populating and maintaining complex databases to provide fact-based information for SIS procurement categories, contract documents, and the comprehensive supplier scorecard
- Work effectively with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve the best results for the company
Qualifications for senior procurement
- Demonstrated knowledge of how to effectively operate in a regulated procurement environment (FDA, GMED, NCIS )
- Proficient in MS Office and SAP (added advantage)
- 4+ years relevant experience in procurement/supply chain role
- 7+ years of experience with government procurement
- Ability to negotiate pricing and contract terms and conditions that mitigate risks
- Ability to handle multiple complex requirements in a high demand environment to meet critical deadlines
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Our company is looking for a senior procurement. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior procurement
- Plans, organizes, directs, and controls policies and activities related to the procurement function in an effort to obtain the best value for the right goods and or services requested by departments
- Develops a system to evaluate vendor qualifications and quotations that utilize appropriate negotiation and purchasing techniques to ensure quality, price, delivery, and service
- Leads the organization toward minimizing overall purchasing costs, without compromising quality or reliability of supply
- Establishes purchasing budgets, plans, policies, systems, and procedures that achieve strategic objectives
- Leads two direct reports and has indirect responsibility for procurement professionals within business units
- Develop and maintain a forecast model for high dollar, high demand items based on expected work-scope and scrap rates
- Produce accurate monthly optimized forecasts, which combine the statistical forecast model and the logical forecast model into an overall forecast
- Liaison with the Value Stream Managers and other departments to ensure that forecast and replenishment plans are accurate and are being utilized by the Value Stream Managers and other departments
- Ensure flow-down to suppliers of requirements from customer contracts
- Approves places and expedites order requests
Qualifications for senior procurement
- Must be US CITIZENSHIP WITH THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN A TS/SCI with CI Poly SECURITY CLEARANCE
- Experience with software agreements a plus
- Knowledge of build to print PO processes and management
- Familiarity with Costpoint
- Must be US CITIZENSHIP WITH CURRENT/ACTIVE TS/SCI with CI Poly SECURITY CLEARANCE
- Excellent time management skills - manage multiple priorities simultaneously and meet team performance cadence (PO acknowledgements
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Our company is hiring for a senior procurement. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior procurement
- Develop and execute strategic sourcing activities for assigned spend categories, leveraging industry best practices, commodity experience, sourcing methodology and global partnerships whenever possible, under the supervision of the Procurement Manager
- Establishes proper hedging positions to insulate the business unit from any external disruptions to supply
- Ensures consistent and repeatable execution of the sourcing process
- Support for ongoing category management/planning (strategy management) activities including driving supplier performance, demand management savings and increasing category compliance
- Develop integrated (tactical and strategic) category sourcing strategy that will deliver strongest business value, and drives category transformation
- Communicate, negotiate and own relationships with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization, including being the primary interface to legal
- Lead clients through business case development, the optimal sourcing approach and structure, evaluate strategically aligned sourcing opportunities and any related impact(s), risks, compliance issues and/or regulatory impacts that may arise from such business arrangements
- Evaluate contract to ensure compliance with legal requirements and organizational requirements
- Proactively aligns stakeholders and necessary support internally for successful project implementation
- Develops RFI / RFP / RFQ for new and existing products
Qualifications for senior procurement
- Coordination of Property Control Audits on Tooling
- Stakeholder Management & Communication — Proactively seeks to engage business partners and stakeholders
- Fluency in French and English are essential
- Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in Business, Information Technology, Legal, Supply Chain Management (Procurement) or related field preferred or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- AExperienced in developing category strategies for specific elements of a category through the use of leading category management methodology
- Knowledge of hardware and software commodities