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Position Title: Lead Buyer
Work Location: REMOTE
Assignment Duration: 12 months
Work Arrangement: Remote
Position Summary:
The Lead Buyer Leader is responsible for Capex related procurement activities for our organization Americas sites supporting projects ranging in size from $10m to $500m. This role will manage and assist a team of order management personnel to procure goods and services for strategic growth capital projects in the Americas.
Background & Context:
This is a hands-on player/manager role supporting our organization’s strategic growth projects, delivering new manufacturing capacity to our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
• Assist in the development of procurement strategies for equipment and services coordinate procurement activities for assigned strategic growth projects.
• Ensure project sourcing objectives, actions and priorities are aligned both within Global Capex Procurement, Global Engineering and with other key business partners.
• Manage and procure engineered equipment, construction services and engineering Services procurement in support of Growth and Investments projects >$10MM.
• Lead the capital procurement RFP process to ensure a fair, timely and efficient bidding process utilizing email and P2P Tools (e.g., Ariba, etc.).
• Collaborate with external and internal Stakeholders and Category Managers to develop Procurement Strategies and ensure the proper vendor selection.
• Plan, lead and execute commercial negotiations and contractual terms for supply agreements.
• Manage relationships with suppliers and act as the primary point of contact within the project team.
• Drive awareness of supply issues within the project, clarifying business impact and lead mitigation/resolution actions.
• Develop project risk management strategies and drive development and implementation of appropriate risk mitigation plans.
• Work closely with Project Management to monitor supplier performance metrics and actively participate in the tracking and reporting of said metrics to drive supplier accountability.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to develop cost reduction strategies and implementation plans that meet project / business needs.
• Report project related savings as well as maintain the project savings pipeline.
• Review and negotiate supplier change orders.
• Coordinate, lead or participate in projects that lead to the development and improved efficiency of the Capex Procurement process and proceedures
• Timely and effective recruitment and training of project procurement resources to staff up new capex projects
Qualification & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in the field of Business, Purchasing, Engineering or Construction.
• Experience in capex heavy industries such as Pharma, oil & gas or tech. Solid commercial experience either in Procurement or construction procurement preferred
• CIPS, Six Sigma, Project Management (or equivalent) preferred
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to craft commercial contract and agreements
• Project and procurement management skills
• Team leader with ability to work efficiently in a matrix organization & interdisciplinary teams
• Excellent business mindset, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• MS Office, SAP, Oracle Unifier, Ariba experience