Procurement Specialist
Role Summary:
Focus on and manage core site-based Procurement to Pay Casting related activities to meet operational objectives and provide outstanding service levels while achieving lowest total cost of acquisition for direct material, indirect goods, services and logistics.
Be an integral part of site operational supply chain team helping on execute strategies and objectives set forth by the Global Supply Chain team (GSC).
Responsibilities & Requirements:
- Cost Reduction: in line with the departmental or functional annual targets
- Support Forecast owners meet or exceed monthly/quarterly goals
- Timely delivery: ensure production need by dates and supplier promise dates meet operational requirements to achieve customer promise dates.
- Accurate Purchase Requisition Conversion: quick turnaround time to convert material demand into Purchase Orders to ensure sufficient time and accurate information is provided to suppliers for manufacturing
- Purchase Order Management: manage the exception messages generated from the ERP system to support optimum levels of inventory, revision changes, cancellations, PO confirmations, supporting the closure of supplier concessions and deviations
- At all times comply with Flowserve Safety, Integrity & Ethics procedures/policies
- Compliance with ALL Flowserve Supply Chain policies & procedures
Preferred Experience / Skills:
- Effective Communication skills
- Fluent verbal and communication skills in English and Spanish
- Reliable negotiation skills
- Basic data analysis skills
- 2 years of Casting/Pattern experience in a similar role
- Technical Background preferred
- Ability to read and understand industrial pump part drawings
- Bachelor’s degree in business (Supply Chain Management preferred)
- Willingness to travel (occasional)
- Casting Product / Commodity intimacy
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of changing situations
- Aptitude in decision-making and working with numbers
- Proven working experience with SAP / Oracle