Associate Analyst Indirect Procurement

The position you are applying for focuses on purchasing indirect material and services from major suppliers, strategic commodities, and multiple locations. You will be responsible for managing the assigned indirect material supply base for multiple sites to ensure uninterrupted supply at the optimum cost, quality, and service for each site. Your dedication to maintaining strategic relationships and creating new ones in the spend categories with increased opportunity is crucial. You will maintain a balance between supplier quality, delivery expectations, and cost reduction metrics for all indirect material purchases. You will be expected to manage the P2P cycle for indirect material, maintain supplier relationships, and ensure uninterrupted supply at the optimum cost, quality, and service for each site. You will have opportunities for product/supplier improvement while ensuring that adequate service levels are met. Leveraging Eaton procurement excellence tools in reporting Supplier Prices Increase Request and collaborating with Corporate/Business Category managers to leverage competitive suppliers will be part of your responsibilities. Vendor management and maintenance of new/change supplier add requests, efficiently following up with the functional team to update the integrated ERP for issuing amended POs on time to avoid penalties to the business will also be essential. Your role will involve preparing and releasing RFQ packages with approved suppliers in line with internal policies for identifying competitive suppliers and recommendations. Collaborating with the functional team in implementing cost-saving projects and reporting/creating visibility to the business on strategic purchase versus tactical to avoid an ineffective process will be key. Efficiently closing open orders, resolving invoice issues, reducing invoice liability, and addressing business urgencies within SLA timelines are also critical aspects of the job. You will be responsible for managing and maintaining all assigned current supplier contacts, business relationships, and commercial responsibilities for the assigned sites. Assisting the corporate indirect material commodity teams in implementing projects for the assigned sites will also be part of your duties. Facilitating cross-functional collaboration with others to identify new areas of opportunity and achieve the greatest outcomes in support of SCM strategic goals and initiatives is expected. In terms of qualifications, a Bachelors's degree in engineering or a Bachelor's degree in supply chain management from an accredited university is required. Skills required for this role include expert knowledge of SAP MM for managing the complete P2P Cycle, Ariba for P2P, demonstrated leadership, strategic thinking and acting capabilities, experience with commodity products and suppliers, excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills, knowledge of ERP system operations, functions, and interfaces, familiarity with enterprise reporting systems and data mining, as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.,