Duration: 6 months- potential to convert into full time
Responsibilities
- Executes complex buying strategies to purchase and arrange timely deliveries of supplies and materials; expedites as needed and serves as liaison between vendors and users, getting prior approval for purchases in excess of established limits
- Resolves complex delivery, quality or other related problems with purchases and invoices
- Updates project plans and purchasing systems; reviews and analyzes requisitions and supply plans for domestic and international purchases
- Defines, communicates and tracks scheduling, risk, change, opportunities and resource management
- Gains alignment on project prioritization and requirements
- Works with cross-functional business partners as well as SupplyChain Management (SCM) network
- Track the vendor's progress against the original and/or revised schedule
- Responsible for effectively communicating with cross-functional team members on project status and SCM tasks
- Review and target supplier delivery improvements and late order resolution
- Works in conjunction with strategic procurement, supplier quality and logistics for improving total cost of ownership of products/services
- Responsible for order execution and delivery on all indirect materials purchasing for the Customer Services business division
- Leverage existing procurement processes and compliance while seeking to identify best management practices, improved procurement processes and other continual improvement initiatives to facilitate efficient processes