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Procurement Specialist

United States, Eagle 64900.00 - 97360.00 USD / Year · Job Posted June 16, 2026
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The Procurement Specialist works in collaboration with global and regional category teams to support the development and execution of sourcing strategies. Key responsibilities include partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to manage spend and analyze market trends, generating insights from sourcing and bidding activities, preparing materials for supplier negotiations, and supporting end-to-end project execution. This role also contributes to supplier relationship management and ensures adherence to procurement policies, controls, and compliance standards, including defining, executing, and monitoring appropriate purchasing channels. The Procurement Specialist serves as a key point of contact between internal stakeholders—such as operations, manufacturing, and facilities—and external suppliers to ensure efficient and effective procurement processes.

Job Responsibility

  • Participate with strategic planning and the execution of sourcing practices
  • Defines requirements and templates for analytics and market intelligence
  • Supports the continuous improvement and standardization of the strategic sourcing processes
  • Analyzes spend baseline, Category Area profile, and market insights to support development of Category and supplier strategies
  • Supports the development of Go-To-Market and negotiation strategies in alignment with the Category Manager and ensure proper documentation thereof
  • Performs supplier analysis including supplier screening, financials, and capability assessments to support supplier selection process
  • Executes end-to-end sourcing projects for less complex
  • Performs supplier selection and fact-based negotiations
  • Provides support to regions and countries on a case-by-case basis to offset local or global skills gaps
  • Builds up knowledge repository and encourage active enhancement by Global areas based on local experience
  • Assists and drive stakeholder alignment
  • Actively engages with stakeholders as defined in alignment throughout the strategy development and sourcing execution process
  • Coordinates operational interfacing and interactions
  • Escalates issues to appropriate level in the organization
  • Assists & actively supports in supplier relationship
  • Drives supplier performance by lifting and shifting best practices from one region to another region
  • Monitors, controls and reports KPI's for the assigned category
  • Productivity and Payment Terms recording and tracking

Requirements

  • 3 years experience in purchasing or supply chain required
  • Bachelor's degree in related field required
  • Analytical and Problem Solving
  • SAP and Ariba experience preferred
  • Prioritize work with multiply timelines and stakeholders
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities or projects
  • Excellent problem solving, interpersonal and organizational skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Lead and demonstrates cross-functional team management

Nice to have

  • Preferred Background with plant operations
  • SAP and Ariba experience preferred

What we offer

  • Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
  • Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
  • Paid Time Off
  • Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
  • Family-Friendly Employee events
  • Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services
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