Purchasing Specialist
North Canton, OH, US, 44720
Purpose and Scope
The purpose of this position is to maintain, enhance and standardize the source-to-pay business process and systems across company’s SAP facilities. This includes creation of standard work for purchasing processes, source-to-pay training, compliance, auditing, creation and tracking of key performance indicators. This includes the compliance aspects of purchasing processes such as SOX and ISO/TS certifications
Responsibilities
- Procurement Specialist – Work within a project team to integrate new acquisitions into our corporate procurement standard processes through training; and SAP & Ariba configurations.
- Procurement Training Coordinator – Engage various departments that impact the supply chain to solicit training topics and coordinate the monthly training plans for the year.
- Manage adequate organizational help chain support for procurement processes.
- Utilize companyU, the ERP Newsletter, uPerform and other training tools to maintain organizational proficiency.
- SOX Compliance – Through the governance, risk and compliance process, ensure SAP procurement user roles and accesses create the proper separation of duties (SOD) to mitigate the risk of fraudulent procurement practices.
- Material Standards Coordinator – Work with Accounting and Supply Assurance teams yearly to improve and facilitate the process of updating the direct material standard costs of procured items by our North American facilities.
- Continuous Improvement – Review Cherwell requests and work with the procurement IT team to prioritize addressing service requests, incidents, and corrective actions. Attend Change Advisory Board meetings to provide input/feedback on changes impacting the procurement process.
- Source-to-Pay internal and external audit support – Research and present evidence of procurement process adherence to internal and external auditors by utilizing SAP, work instructions, Oversight, and business intelligence (BI) reports; additionally, work with cross-functional teams on corrective actions.
- Data Quality Management – Ensure procurement data in SAP is greater than 95% accurate. Create KPIs that are aligned with business objectives and drive compliance.
- Perform other ad hoc activities in support of Source-to-Pay continuity, compliance, and improvements.
Technical/Functional Skills
- Subject Matter Expert in SAP procurement
- Cross-functional team building
- Presentation/public speaking
- Microsoft Office suite (especially Excel & PowerPoint)
- Data gathering, organization and analysis
Education/Experience
- Bachelor's Degree of Business, Supply Chain, or related field with 12 years of experience
- Master's Degree of Business, Supply Chain, or related field with 10 years of experience