Procurement Specialist coordinating sourcing of products and issuing purchase orders. Training new staff and continuously improving procurement processes and supplier relationships.
About the role
- Sourcing Specialist I optimizing material flow for The Toro Company. Support supplier relationships and procurement processes in a hybrid work environment.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the supplier relationship through excellent communication to ensure the supplier has alignment with ISC’s goals.
- Understand, and support the category specific strategy.
- Support Sourcing Specialist and Category Manager in long term cost control strategies to fit specific strategic supplier partnerships and commodities.
- Support lead time maintenance and reduction
- Manage purchase requisition queue and ensure purchase orders are placed with suppliers offering fair pricing, outstanding quality, and excellent service.
- Support multiple areas of the parts procurement process within TTC’s MRP/ERP system.
- Support the TTC’s Escalation process and requests from TTC’s manufacturing plants on supplier deliveries and escalations as required.
- Assist supplier transitions.
- Participate in supplier exit process standardization and continuous improvement projects.
- Support TTC’s Digital Transformation objectives.
- Assist with the gathering of requested information for Total Cost of Ownership analysis to support the Category Team.
- Support the deviation from specification (DFS) requests from suppliers.
- Assist supplier quality engineer when needed.
- Ensures engineering change notices (ECN’s) are completed timely.
- Ability to troubleshoot routine issues that arise in moderately complex situations.
- Support various intradepartmental process improvement projects including lean activities, productivity improvements, lead time maintenance and others as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Operations or Engineering with 0+ years of professional experience
- Sourcing experience or relevant education normally gained by completing degree in supply chain or operations related field preferred
- Self-motivated, ability to work under pressure, manage and prioritize multiple objectives concurrently, attend to details, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment
- Proven ability to analyze situations and accurately take effective actions.
- Basic skills in Microsoft Suite, MRP/ERP, Ariba and SAP
- Ability to maintain composure during rapidly changing situations, remaining focused on the relevant objective.
- Capacity to work independently as well as within a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and market dynamics for assigned commodities.
Benefits
- affordable and top tier medical/dental/vision plan
- 401k
- 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community
- Hybrid work schedule
- Casual, corporate environment
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