The Strategic Sourcing Specialist will be responsible for managing the Company’s sourcing activities (sourcing strategy, supplier relationship management, contract management, purchase order scheduling) for its Continuous Spend categories, including raw materials and finished products, with focus on ammonium nitrate, chemicals and ammonium nitrate-related products.
As coordinator of the ammonium nitrate network, the Sourcing Specialist will execute the supply plan delivered by Planning with all the ammonium nitate vendors and including the inputs from Logistics & Distribution, Procurement and Commercial areas, ensuring the product is supplied to customers across the region in a timely manner, and manage the exceptions when the products are not available in full.
As a member of Orica’s North American Supply group, the Sourcing Specialist plays a critical role in driving, implementing, and embedding a significant amount of change required to improve functional capability and deliver substantial cost savings.
In addition, this role will provide category management for direct spend vendors (e.g. supplier’s/competitors, raw materials, chemicals suppliers, etc.) while ensuring successful implementation of global corporate category initiatives. This role will also act as the central point of contact for strategic projects in the region that require Sourcing and Procurement representation. This role will report to the North American Sourcing Lead but liaise with Global Category Managers, Leads and business stakeholders to assist in global implementations and ensure alignment in goals and objectives.