Associate's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Typically possesses zero to three years of experience in negotiating and purchasing.
The successful candidate must have a basic knowledge and demonstrated ability to apply principles of financial analysis, activity based costing and supply chain methodology.
Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with customers and suppliers.
Excellent written and verbal communications are required. Independently commit the company by planning and authorizing purchase contracts, contract changes and other procurement instruments having signatory authority.
Lead procurement team and managing the total procurement effort for assigned projects/programs, including directing such tasks as fact finding, price and cost analysis, source selection, negotiations, and bidder briefings and debriefings.
Lead on-site audits and supplier assessments as necessary to qualify, evaluate and develop suppliers.
Improve supplier performance by monitoring cost, quality, and schedule compliance; initiating and implementing appropriate action to resolve problems; and, mediating conflicts and establish resolution with customers and suppliers.
Manage procurement packages by gaining a thorough understanding of supplier-customer relationships; by developing a working knowledge of own organizations relationships with other TIMCO organizations; and, by developing and implementing and authorizing actions to incorporate with other functional disciplines.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of procurement basics, ethical business conduct, legal principles, and protection of TIMCO, supplier and customer proprietary data by complying with company policies, procedures and accepted business practices.
Maintain contractual integrity of procurement packages by reviewing, determining and incorporating appropriate State and Federal regulations, contract flow-down requirements, and other special terms and conditions peculiar to individual contracts types.
Develop other procurement team members by providing guidance on technical procurement issues.
Foster increased productivity and advancement opportunities by personal commitment to professional development and by practicing continuous improvement of processes.
Support Corporate goals for small business/small disadvantaged business by promoting the use of qualified sources and by seeking, encouraging and assisting new candidates to become qualified.
Good attention to detail, can learn MS Office suite of apps.
Maintains moderately complex purchase orders and change orders
Assists in driving innovation, improving ways of working, and enhancing supplier management systems
Aids in executing purchasing and sourcing strategies, addressing short-term and long-term material requirements to achieve the purchasing performance metrics of timely delivery, right quality and optimum cost
Assists with the undertaking of analysis supporting the resolution of risk issues and gap identification
Aids in training peers and other stakeholders on the procurement process
Helps maintain effective stakeholder relationships with internal customers to become a trusted business partner
A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cyber security assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Desired Skills/Attributes:
Experience with SAP ECC for materials management, purchase orders, change orders, requisitions.
Develop and maintain Outline Agreements, Source Lists, and monitor PO Automation across apparatus categories.
Execute Purchase Orders, Change Orders, and Request for Proposals across multiple apparatus categories.
Familiarity with Ariba
Education Requirement:
4 year degree or equivalent based on demonstrated experience.