Procurement Specialist - Kankakee, United States - CSL Behring

Description

**The Opportunity**

As a successful Procurement Specialist, you will support the Facilities management and Real Estate activities for all US sites. With this, you are responsible for the procurement activities relating to quality, cost, delivery, and service to ensure best value for CSL. Also, you will support the development and/or implementation of strategies for assigned categories.

You support sourcing or bid activities, lead sourcing projects and build and relationships with partners and vendors.

**The Role**

In detail, your responsibilities include:

+ Prepare proposals, request quotes, and negotiate purchase terms and conditions.

+ Compares bids from vendors and determines, or assists with determination, to whom contracts will be awarded.

+ Evaluate vendor proposals to ensure that all requirements are met.

+ Confirm that terms and delivery dates are accurate.

+ Evaluate competence of vendors and review their invoices for accuracy.

+ Maintain database regarding vendors performance and quality of product(s).

+ Monitor supplier performance and resolve issues and concerns.

+ Analyze industry and demand trends and support senior management with the development of sourcing strategies.

+ Help develop contracting strategies including tender, negotiation and award and the post-award contract management and continuous improvements against the deals.

+ Take a necessary role in implementing Framework Agreements at the site, including implementation of local call offs and transition between suppliers.

+ Work with Global Sourcing and partners across different backgrounds and levels, both at the plant and the regional level.

+ Obtain active support for important procurement goals with local stakeholder engagement; able to link these goals to our needs and benefits, including LEAN manufacturing principles.

+ Deliver savings to achieve site cost reduction targets.

+ Ensure compliance with established strategies, contracts, policies, and procedures.

+ Manage relationships with main third-party providers to meet challenges and identify improvement opportunities.

+ Maintain full understanding of Global Sourcing procedures, procurement systems processes, Requisition to Pay processes, and ERP related processes.

+ The Procurement Specialist can identify the needs of their partners and find the best ways to meet those needs and deliver value.

+ This job requires a focus towards organization, analytics reporting, task administration, and excellent customer service.

**Your Skills and Experience**

+ University degree in Procurement, Engineering or Supply Chain Management or a related field preferred.

+ A Post graduate business degree is highly preferred.

+ Minimum 4 years' experience in strategic sourcing or relevant.

+ Maintain an external and strategic focus for self and the team environment and ensuring teams are set up for collaboration.

+ Create an accountable working environment.

+ Negotiation and problem-solving skills.

+ Project management skills or undertaken procurement inititatives with an ability to plan tasks, assign resources, manage progress, remove barriers, manage change, resolve conflict, and motivate team members across multiple projects concurrently.

+ Collaborate with suppliers and project managers regarding updates and details of goods and services.

+ Excellent written and spoken English language skills.

+ Work with the project team to understand details of procurement requirements.

+ Travel is required

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**Our Benefits**

CSL employees that work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for benefits effective day 1. We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones. CSL offers resources and benefits, from health care to financial protection, so you can focus on doing work that matters. Our benefits are designed to support the needs of our employees at every stage of their life. Whether you are considering starting a family, need help paying for emergency back up care or summer camp, looking for mental health resources, planning for your financial future, or supporting your favorite charity with a matching contribution, CSL has many benefits to help achieve your goals.

Please take the time to review our benefits site ) to see whats available to you as a CSL employee.

**About CSL Behring**

CSL Behring is a global leader in developing and delivering high-quality medicines that treat people with rare and serious diseases. Our treatments offer promise for people in more than 100 countries living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. Learn more about CSL Behring ) .

**We want CSL to reflect the world around us**

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