Sr Procurement Specialist

Career Area

Procurement

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Supports the execution of designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring procurement capabilities to provide business solutions that are globally effective & applicable.

• Leading projects associated with lean processes, global market understanding, tools, and systems.
• Designs and develops solutions, collaborates with senior stakeholders and business users to collect voice-of-business/voice-of-customer, business requirements, and prepares implementation plans for successful deployment.
• Contributes to strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services and development of associated tools and training.
• Serves as the lead technical representative for a respective discipline and will work directly with a wide range of procurement and enterprise representatives, including presenting recommendations to senior leaders.

Data Analytics (Knowledge of techniques and processes for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data; ability to discover useful information, draw logical conclusions, and support decision-making.)

Level Working Knowledge:

• Collects required data through various data sources and documents them for evaluating trends and activities.
• Assists in preparing charts, graphs, tables, and other tools to represent the results obtained from data analysis.
• Researches business-related data, analyzes, interprets, and presents findings to management.
• Recognizes and assesses problems, opportunities, and methods for improving existing business performance.
• Utilizes designated data analysis software to analyze the data.

Negotiating (Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.)

Level Expert:

• Leads complex, high-impact or volatile negotiations involving high business risks.
• Advocates a win-win approach to negotiating.
• Explains appropriateness of using adversarial negotiating versus joint problem-solving techniques.
• Overcomes resistance to the negotiation process.
• T teaches others the subtleties of negotiating strategic or high-impact agreements.
• Negotiates complex matters involving multiple parties.

Matrix Management (Understanding of the importance of being able to leverage external resources when required and ability to build and use effective working relationships within own department and across department, functional, and geographic reporting lines.)

Level Extensive

Experience:

• Analyzes issues and determines who needs to be consulted or updated.
• Helps others in understanding their roles and responsibilities within a matrix.
• Builds networks and effective working relationships in relevant organizational areas.
• Works to achieve consensus across organizational and functional lines.
• Describes viewpoints of several functional groups.
• Obtains timely decisions from multiple parties in an efficient manner.

Vendor/Supplier Management (Knowledge of external provider management processes and ability to effectively manage the business relationship with external providers such as vendors, service providers, contractors, consultants, and suppliers.)

Level Extensive

Experience:

• Manages actual and perceived conflict of interest issues.
• Influences existing and new vendor relationships and the approved vendor list.
• Interprets documents detailing service provisions and financial arrangements.
• Explains case studies of effective and ineffective partnering relationships and lessons learned.
• Monitors and communicates vendor effectiveness, reliability, and performance.
• Advises others on…