About the Role
We are looking for an Indirect Procurement Specialist to provide sourcing and procurement support to internal teams including Office Administration, HR, Travel, Recruiting, Creative Engagement, Accounting, and Facilities. You will plan approaches for upcoming needs and renewals, understand project requirements, develop and lead RFPs, and analyze bid responses. Negotiating agreements with suppliers, raising purchase orders, and overseeing invoicing discrepancies will be key focuses. You will also manage supplier communications and build strong supplier relationships. We seek an independent and organized individual with strong interpersonal skills who can make an immediate impact.
Responsibilities
- Plan an approach for upcoming needs and renewals
- Understand key requirements and expected outcomes for each project
- Develop and lead RFPs
- Analyze and level bid responses
- Negotiate agreements with suppliers
- Ensure contracts encapsulate all requirements in collaboration with the Legal team
- Raise purchase orders
- Oversee any invoicing discrepancies
- Oversee supplier communications
- Work with stakeholders to build strong supplier relationships
Requirements
- 5+ years of related procurement experience
- Deep understanding of RFPs, MSAs, and SOWs
- Proven leader with experience overseeing complex projects
- Excellent written and verbal communicator
- Self-starter who requires minimal supervision
- Resourceful and comfortable navigating through ambiguity
- Strong negotiator, collaborator, and project manager
- Effective at managing large sourcing projects and daily transactional workload
- Experienced with creating POs with P2P systems (e.g., Oracle, Ariba, Coupa, Workday)
- Comfortable analyzing and redlining contracts
- Desire to understand the big picture as well as the intricate details
- Flexible team player; willing to support other workflows and categories as needed
- Travel category management experience is preferred
Skills
- Procurement
- Sourcing
- RFPs
- MSAs
- SOWs
- Negotiation
- Contract analysis
- Contract redlining
- Project management
- Communication
- P2P systems (Oracle, Ariba, Coupa, Workday)
- Collaboration
Experience Level
- 5+ years
