Procurement Specialist (MRO) - Pella, IA

Summary :

Responsible for managing and optimizing of the supply chain. Responsibilities include: material planning, inventory management, supplier delivery performance, and working capital efficiency. This role involves coordination with internal and external stakeholders, third-party service providers, logistics, warehouse, operations, accounts payable, to ensure seamless supply operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: for the following objections and supporting actions/tasks. Other duties may be assigned.

• Manage daily execution of purchased materials to support Operations: placing Purchase Orders, managing exceptions, supplier on time delivery, expedite determination, inventory strategy calibration and execution, and invoice resolution.
• Collaborate with suppliers on component demand forecasts, supplier stocking program, ordering methods, inventory levels, safety stock, and lead time improvement opportunities.
• Evaluating forecasts and identifying capacity concerns, recognize supply/demand issues impacting order flow, and communicate constraints remediation to the network when necessary.
• Maintain and manage procurement attributes/settings on all purchased items.
• Develop future state objectives to achieve operational excellence, including working capital and supplier on-time delivery goals.
• Monitoring supplier shipments and acting accordingly with serviceable solutions for operations. (Purchase order outliers, critical overdue and exception process, open supply gaps, deviations, cycle adjustment report, etc.)
• Collaborating with suppliers to address performance issues, including on-time deliveries and product quality.
Working in partnership with Supplier Performance Management, Category Management, Cost Management & Analytics, Plant Receiving/Stockrooms, Operations, and New Product Introduction (NPI) on strategic initiatives.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This job has no supervisory responsibilities.