Senior Buyer
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Job Description
The Senior Procurement Buyer negotiates and executes sourcing activities and contracts across JM Family Enterprises leveraging procurement strategies to drive cost savings and satisfy internal customer requirements. An ideal Buyer will assist internal customers in drafting scopes of services and requirements as needed. To support and manage the procurement lifecycle the Senior Buyer will conduct research on potential suppliers develop RFx events develop and manage contracts conduct price and terms negotiations and facilitate the protection of the enterprise from risk while maximizing value.
Responsibilities:
This individual will be accountable for maintaining and growing existing relationships to support and expand the current procurement pipeline.
Additional Responsibilities for the Senior Buyer include but are not limited to:
- Develop expertise in a managed category by analyzing current market trends
- Identify suppliers to meet business requirements
- Design manage and control the competitive bid process through RFIs RFQs RFPs and Reverse Auctions (RFx events) as well as leading client teams in the sourcing and selection process
- Review and conduct Supplier Performance Management as requested by the Business
- Provide firstlevel contract review for consistency with scope/requirements RFP documentation pricing agreements and corporate standards
- Negotiate and execute agreements including contracting with Suppliers on pricing and terms and conditions
- Liaison between Legal Corporate Insurance Services and various departments/business units
- Drive internal compliance with Procurement policies procedures strategies and guidelines on an ongoing basis
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in business management or related field
- Minimum 57 years of purchasing experience in a corporate environment with an emphasis on Indirect Procurement
- Knowledge of the purchase order process
- Selfstarter with an ability to work independently in a semifastpaced environment
- Proven negotiating skills with a strong comprehension of price/cost analysis
- Topnotch PC skills with emphasis on Microsoft Office 365 including Excel PowerPoint and Word
- Experience creating and negotiating Master Services Agreements Statements of Work and other purchasing contracts
- Highly collaborative teamoriented individual who has the proven ability to build relationships with Internal Customers and Suppliers
- Ability to establish category management capabilities to help drive compliance and performance reduce cost and reduce risk to the organization
- Solid analytical skills to identify quantify and successfully leverage data to support business decisions
- Excellent verbal written and interpersonal communication skills as well as organizational time management and planning skills
- Experience using SAP Ariba solution a plus
- CPM/CPSM certification a plus
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This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties responsibilities or aspects of the job described and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of JM Family. All work arrangements are subject to associate performance business need and manager discretion and may be revised as necessary.
JM FAMILY IS PROUD TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
JM Family Enterprises Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to recruiting hiring retaining and promoting qualified associates without regard to age race religion color gender sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression mental or physical disability national origin marital status citizenship military status genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state provincial or local law.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS
If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete the job application process please contact JM Familys Talent Acquisition department at for assistance. If you have an accommodation request for one of our recruiting events please notify us at least 72 hours prior so that we may provide assistance.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
