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As a Procurement Specialist, your role involves utilizing professional procurement practices to acquire goods and services, ensuring high quality, cost-effectiveness, and timely delivery. You will be responsible for managing commodities with detailed or complex specifications and high costs. Your primary responsibilities include reviewing requests for materials or services, sourcing components, preparing and communicating RFQs (Request for Quote), analyzing bids for optimum value, negotiating price, quality, and delivery terms, selecting suppliers, and placing purchase orders. You will also expedite delivery, ensure accurate creation of purchase orders, track order status, resolve discrepancies, maintain supplier relationships, evaluate supplier performance, identify new suppliers, and collaborate with various departments for problem resolution. Additionally, you will support senior buyers in implementing sourcing plans, identify cost-saving opportunities, comply with company policies and HSE procedures, coordinate contract agreements, escalate complex issues, understand technical requirements, collaborate with suppliers, review forecasts, and plan purchases accordingly. To qualify for this role, you should have a Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, or Mechanical Engineering, along with 3-5 years of procurement experience. Certifications such as APICS, CPIM, LEAN/Six-Sigma Green Belt are preferred. Your background should include buying experience with raw materials and machined parts, familiarity with manufacturing environments, and knowledge of ERP systems. In terms of behavioral competencies, you should exhibit integrity, trust, strategic thinking, solid judgment, effective communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities. Your technical competencies should include oral and written communication skills, document production, arithmetical computations, data entry, project management, market understanding, vendor management, and proficiency in Microsoft Office. Join our global family of companies where we prioritize purposeful innovation, service excellence, and collaboration across various functions to ensure lasting success for our customers and communities. Your role in the Corporate team will involve providing expert knowledge and support to all business operations.,