Purchasing Specialist

Purpose and Objective:
• Manages procurement initiatives for production and non-production products and services. Leads and executes strategies to achieve agreed upon service levels with internal and external customers. Teams with Strategic Sourcing, Quality Engineering, Purchased Product Engineering, and Material Flow in the production environment to achieve and manage favorable commodities contracts. Teams with Facilities, IT, HS&E, HR, Finance, and Capital Equipment Coordinators in a non-production environment to achieve and manage multi-million dollar contracts and long term agreements.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
• Determines functional objectives and manages organizational performance to achieve on-time delivery, quality and cost performance, and contract fulfillment for all purchased products and services.
• Responsible to negotiate with the suppliers best possible prices for goods to keep the company expenditure to a minimum, to obtain 3 quotations at all time for purchases.
• Responsible in coordinating with Accounting Department for payment request.
• Responsible in maintaining a good relationship with all suppliers, keeping a polite and professional attitudes at all times.
• Develops and implements strategic inventory management to achieve operating plan objectives.
• Develops and implements procurement strategies for infrastructure product and service requirements to support all business objectives, monitors support, and interfaces with cross-divisional infrastructure management personnel to create cohesive and integrated procurement plans.
• Participates in strategy and decision processes leading to outsourcing of services, and manages associated procurement activity.
• Provides information and oversight of effective commodity and natural customer-focused teams.
• Any and all other duties and tasks assigned.