AI & MI Solutions Specialist, Global Procurement Operations (GPO), AI & MI Solutions
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Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced versatile and customer obsessed AI & MI Solutions Specialist who will be responsible for driving cost engineering and digital optimization initiatives in one or several procurement categories (for example Packaging Services Robotics material handling equipment or CAPEX Freight). The ideal candidate has experience in procurement/cost engineering with added experience in data and digital innovation. Alternatively the candidate is a mechanical engineer with industrial expertise and a deep understanding of cost drivers and ideally experience in supplier negotiations.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Collaborate with suppliers and internal customers to investigate and identify product innovations and design-to-cost initiatives with the ultimate target to achieve cost improvement
Communicate with and support management decisions by providing appropriate cost information
Develop overall procurement cost-engineering roadmap and establish should-costing for one or several procurement categories
Utilize costing methodologies and appropriate software tools to prepare reliable bottom-up cost models and should-cost targets during design specification and development process in close collaboration with category managers engineering and construction
Collaborate with suppliers and internal stakeholders to drive product innovations value engineering initiatives and continuous cost improvement strategies.
Develop and enhance specification templates with category managers to standardize and streamline procurement processes.
Track and report cost engineering KPIs and scorecards to assess supplier performance strengthen business partnerships and track cost improvement goals.
Provide summaries of cost analysis findings to management to support decision-making.
- Bachelors degree in supply chain business engineering finance or related technical or quantitative field
- Experience in program or project management
- Experience in supply chain
- Experience as procurement/purchasing analyst or other operational role within a procurement organization
- Experience in requirement gathering and ability to write clear and detailed requirement document
- Experience with one or more analytics visualization tools (e.g. Excel Tableau QuickSight MicroStrategy PowerBI)
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities or experience in SQL Server/MySQL
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