Purpose
The Senior Specialist, Procurement Management is responsible for executing source-to-contract procurement processes in alignment with business goals and industry best practices, ensuring compliance with procurement policies, and contributing to supplier diversity and sustainability. This role plays an essential part in executing supplier management activities, implementing continuous improvement projects, and driving day-to-day supplier excellence.
NOTE: This role will be a hybrid schedule in the northern Chicago suburbs (3 days onsite / 2 days remote)
Responsibilities
- Assist with source to contract procurement processes in line with business goals and industry best practices, ensuring alignment with defined category strategic vision.
- Maintain compliance with procurement policy and team activities to business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value.
- Execute supplier management activities in alignment to category SRM strategy, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions, including negotiations and workshops.
- Adhere to risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience.
- Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, implementing strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.
- Execute continuous improvement projects initiated by the PSC team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations.
- Oversee Specialists’ execution of procurement activities and provide feedback while developing own capabilities and accumulates category expertise in accordance with individual learning path.
- Actively enable team goals, ensuring performance targets and objectives are delivered successfully.
