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PPG in Huntsville, AL is hiring a Strategic Sourcing Specialist! As a Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you will support PPG Aerospace Small Business reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Optimize Tendering Process to ensure compliance and effective competitive bidding.
- Continue to optimize process to drive organization efficiency and best value.
- Sustained training to all partners to make sure all contracts are carried out with right process/procedure.
- Drive regional or global sourcing strategy including single source elimination, procurement centralization, resource consolidation and frame agreement negotiation.
- Drive e-Auction/negotiation strategy to meet cost saving and working capital target.
- Manage purchase orders to ensure compliance and risk is appropriately managed.
- Drive innovation in purchasing tools, process and sourcing strategy. (Lean initiatives, VE, VSM)
- Supplier relationship maintenance and supplier performance management.
- Continuously optimize working process to improve internal customer satisfaction.
- Small Business Reporting - FAR 52.219
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree business or related field required.
- 3-5 years sourcing experience.
- Experiences with e-Auction is preferable.
- Strong MS Office experience, including Excel with ability to analyze data and make decisions.
- Strategic sourcing, opportunity analyses, and contract negotiations a must.
- Organizationally savvy and able to influence and balance priorities.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, proactively seeks relationships, and hands-on results orientated.
- Able to work autonomously and manage change projects through cross-functional teams.
- Must be able to travel domestically up to 30% of the time.
- Demonstrated ability to identify business process issues and drive process improvement.
- Eye for business and ability to manage commercial relationships and negotiations.
About us:
Here at PPG we make it happen, and we seek candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our values, with the commitment and drive to strive today to do better than yesterday – everyday.
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