Procurement Specialist jobs in Jersey City, NJ

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Summary

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages and assists with day-to-day procurement processes
  • Identifies new procurement and cost savings opportunities
  • Establishes and maintains Coupa P2P catalogs including products and services descriptions, images, and pricing
  • Provides transactional support of requisitions, POs, and invoices to ensure accuracy
  • Provides buyer role triage support to obtain proper reviews of applicable requisitions that could require sourcing events
  • Compiles metric/reporting on all regional and/or category transactional activity
  • Enables suppliers by reviewing contracts and setting up the appropriate PO structure to capture spend details in Coupa
  • Maintains internally managed catalogs by coordinating with the supplier, procurement team peers and business users
  • Assists and/or manages the product price change process in accordance with contract terms and/or negotiated terms
  • Tracks and reports on supplier related issues, failures, and quality defects
  • Works as a team with other Buyers to cover temporary vacancies and develop buying strategies that can be duplicated throughout the department
  • Develops and focuses on continuous improvement of standard operating procedures; trains others on P2P system and Procurement processes and tools
• Ensures excellent customer service to all customers/stakeholders (internal and external)
  • Manages efforts to resolve internal/external stakeholder issues
  • Manages day-to-day supplier relations and escalations; Communicate updates and issues to leadership and internal stakeholders both verbally and written form
  • Promotes Coupa user adoption by improving catalog usability and established, preferred suppliers
• Assist in developing and implementing procurement projects and programs
  • Coordinates and facilitates meetings internally as well as externally with suppliers
  • Assigned categories and is responsible for developing category plans to include sourcing and contract opportunities resulting in company and/or region-specific savings
  • Represents designated regions and categories as a subject matter expert for the purpose of reporting, contract development, supplier evaluations, and development/execution of procurement strategy
• Maintains monthly supplier performance measurement reports and facilitates monthly/quarterly performance review meetings with preferred suppliers
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience is required
• At least (5) five years of related work experience; trade show, event, retail or hospitality industry experience is preferred
• Experience with a Procure-to-Pay (P2P) platform such as Coupa and SAP SRM as a heavy end-user, technical owner, implementer, buyer or system administrator is strongly preferred
• Procure-to-pay solution experience a plus
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications including: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook and SharePoint

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