Remote Position
Sr. Procurement Specialist
๐ Remote ยท United States
๐ผ Full-time
Job Title: Sr. Procurement Specialist
Location: Hartford, CT
Position Type: Contracted - 06 Months
Job Type: 100% Remote
Schedule: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
Pay rate: $32.24/-hr on W2
Job ID: #177534
Position Overview:
- Representative indirect category activities this role may be asked to support include Corporate & Professional Services, Office Supplies/IT Peripherals, Telecommunications, MRO/Facility expenses, Tail Spend, Contractor Services.
- Experience with a major Procure 2 Pay system (Coupa, Ariba, GEP, Ivalue or Zycus) is critical for this role. Candidates should have experience negotiating contracts and working with legal.
- Execute RFX/RFPs, contract negotiations, and govern functional approvals for assigned indirect Procurement topics.
- Efficiently monitor requisition, approval, and PO processes in the organization's Procure 2 Pay platform (Zycus), handling order confirmation process with suppliers as well as transactional support as needed.
- Assist business requestors navigate the Procure 2 Pay system including training/troubleshooting, and guidance to enable compliance with a no-po no-pay policy.
- Gather quotations, examines bids and makes awards in partnership with internal stakeholders.
- Ensure spend decisions target lowest logical cost and are within applicable market benchmarks.
- Evaluates vendor reliability and develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive.
- Support special project events as assigned, which may include data gathering for sourcing events or managing the standup of vendor programs such as Catalog solutions or vendor specific discount programs.
- Collaborate with legal and business stakeholders on any contract negotiations.
- Extensive indirect procurement experience in a large corporate environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, contract execution, and procurement compliance processes end-to-end.
- College Degree is must.
- Must be worked in Enterprise originations or large markets.
- 8+ years of relevant procurement experience.
- Strong experience with Procure-to-Pay (P2P) systems.
- Hands-on experience handling requisition processing and approval workflows.
- Proven background in sourcing and purchasing indirect procurement categories.
- Experience negotiating contracts and partnering with legal teams throughout the contract review and execution process.
- Must have experience working in large enterprise organizations and supporting complex, high-volume procurement environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
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