Position Responsibilities
- Strategize and develop long-term cost-effective procurement strategies
- Assess and reorganize current procurement buying processes
- Ability to quickly identify areas for improvement and provide recommendations to senior management
- Analyze existing materials, vendors, pricing
- Vendor and supplier bidding, negotiating and relationship management
- Develop and leverage buying power of multiple business units within the organization
- Preparation of bid packages and pre-negotiation strategy
- Daily interaction with external suppliers for procurement of construction/fabrication goods and services
- Analyze and evaluate proposals
- Research and select key vendors and suppliers
- Streamline and forecast material needs, buys and pricing
- Perform price analysis and cost evaluation
- Lead negotiations and agreement terms
- Negotiate and coordinate modifications to purchase agreements
- Negotiate term supply contracts/agreements and RFP’s
- Document control for purchase contracts including review for completeness, revision control, categorization, process development and search capability
- Work closely with senior management, production, project management, engineering fabrication and suppliers to establish business building relationships
Requirements
- Prior experience in large-scale material buys in manufacturing
- Demonstrated procurement experience in façade, curtainwall, building enclosure industries (preferred)
- Procurement experience in manufacturing required
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Strong business acumen and ability to make strategic decisions which align with business operations and production
- Strong negotiation and business building skills
- Exceptional relationship skills both internally and externally
- Strong vendor relations
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Self-motivated, with demonstrated sense of urgency, and ownership of tasks
- Detail oriented
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Demonstrated problem solving skills