Senior Manager for Procurement responsible for sourcing across Wella Brands in North America. Driving strategy and managing supplier relations in the beauty industry.
About the role
- Field Sourcing Specialist providing dedicated sourcing and value creation services for operations at Airgas. Supporting safety, efficiency, compliance, and savings initiatives with a diverse team.
Responsibilities
- Provide dedicated professional sourcing and other value creation services to assigned business units or operating zones to support and achieve safety, efficiency, compliance and savings initiatives and objectives
- Manage all contact between Airgas and bidders
- Assist in developing technical specifications and/or scopes of work with internal customers
- Investigate, qualify and recommend bidders
- Develop and issue formal requests for quotes (RFQs)
- Lead job walks and bid clarification meetings with internal customers
- Issue clarifications or amendments to the specification or work scope to all bidders
- Complete commercial bid tabulations
- Complete technical bid tabulations including analysis with internal customers
- Negotiate final price and commercial terms
- Make sourcing recommendations to internal customers
- Author and execute materials and services contracts as required
- Identify and address business risks during the bidding and sourcing process
- Verify that all contractors are appropriately pre-screened for safety
- Initiate the contractor pre-screening process for new contractors as required
- Verify that hold harmless and indemnification documentation is in place
- Verify that critical suppliers are on the approved supplier list
- Proactively manage sourcing activity for all major capital, maintenance and plant turnarounds (TAR)
- Attend and actively participate in budget planning meetings for assigned BU or zone
- Actively participate in TAR planning meetings
Requirements
- High School diploma required
- At least five years purchasing experience supporting operations or manufacturing
- Previous experience implementing cost savings programs/initiatives
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution (preferred)
- Previous SAP experience preferred
- Previous chemical manufacturing experience a plus
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision plans
- short-term and long-term disability
- life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- pre-tax commuter transportation benefit
- parental leave
- vacation
- sick time
- floating holidays
- jury duty
- funeral/bereavement leave
- paid holidays
- 401k plan with company matching funds
- tuition reimbursement
- discounted college tuition for eligible employees’ dependents
- Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children
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