Procurement Specialist
Job Profile Summary
The procurement specialist will be responsible for reviewing purchase orders to ensure compliance with policy and procedures as well as routing the orders for appropriate approval. The position will update and generate policy and procedure for the procurement process which may include leading and participating on cross-functional teams. The procurement specialist will have a strong attention to detail, healthy questioning attitude and strong process orientations. The position will collect and analyze data to provide management reporting dashboards and ident. The position will operate with autonomy and must be willing to interact professionally and effectively with management at all
levels. Key responsibilities include:
- Purchase Order Review - Review Purchase Order Submittals to ensure they comply with policy and requirements and forward for appropriate approvals.
- Process Improvement - Lead process improvement initiatives and act as a liaison with decentralized buying community and business systems team to improve
efficiency. - Data Analysis - Responsible for gathering and analysis of data to report to management on various procurement measures and in support of process
improvement efforts. - Policy Leadership - Responsible for updating and drafting policy and procedures for various processes impacting procurement. This can include both leading
and participating in cross functional teams.
Training and Development Opportunities
Procurement Specialists are encouraged to explore the relevant resources provided by our learning partners.
Communication
Computers/Software
- Excel with Copilot: AI-Driven Data Analysis
- Getting Great Results with Excel Pivot Tables, PowerQuery and PowerPivot
- Learning Data Analytics: 1 Foundations
- MS Word/Excel 2013 Pocket Primer (Book)
- SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, and Related Functions for Data Analysis
- Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chains
- Using PivotTables for Basic Anaylsis
- Working with Pivot Tables
Data Analysis
- Analysis and Reporting for Supply Chain Management
- Basics of Data Visualization
- Convert a Report to Raw, Useful Data
- Data Analysis
- Data Analysis with Excel (Book)
- Discover Data Analysis
- Excel Data Analysis: Your Visual Blueprint for Analyzing Data, Charts, and PivotTables, 4th Edition
- Excel with Copilot: AI-Driven Data Analysis
- Introduction to Business Analytics
- Learning Data Analytics: 1 Foundations
- Six Sigma Exploratory Data Analysis
- Supply Chain Foundation: Analytics
- The Data Analysis Process
- Using PivotTables for Basic Analysis
Financial Skills
Negotiating
- Asking for and Getting What You Want
- Building Skills to Become a Powerhouse Negotiator
- Negotiating For Dummies, 2nd Edition (Book)
- Negotiation
- Negotiation (Book)
- Negotiation Foundations
- Negotiation Skills
- Practical Negotiating: Tools, Tactics, & Techniques (Book)
- Revise a Quote and Versioning
- Successfully Negotiating When You Have No Alternatives
- The First Steps in Negotiating
- Win-Win Negotiations: Developing the Mindset, Skills and Behaviours of Win-Win Negotiators (Book)
- WIN-WIN: An Everyday Guide to Negotiating (Book)
Project Management
Relationship Building
- Building a Win-win Relationship with Your Manager
- Building Rapport with Customers
- Earn Customer Trust and Cultivate Lasting Relationships
- Getting Relationships Right: How to Build Resilience and Thrive in Life, Love, and Work (Audiobook)
- Getting Relationships Right: How to Build Resilience and Thrive in Life, Love, and Work (Book)
- Power Relationships: 26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships (Book)
- This Isn't Working for Me: A Practical Guide for Making Every Relationship in Your Life More Fulfilling, Authentic, and Intentional (Audiobook)
- Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success--And Won't Let You Fail (Audiobook)
Risk Management
Strategic Sourcing
- Supply Chain Management and ProcuremtneL From the Basics to Best-in-Class (Book)
- The Procurement Game Plan: Winning Strategies and Techniques for Supply Management Professionals, 2nd Edition (Book)
Supply Chain
- Analysis for Supply Chain Management
- Digital Transformation Insights: Supply Chain & Procurement Functions
- Essentials of Supply Chain Management, Fifth Edition (Book)
- Excel Supply Chain Analysis: Solving Inventory Problems
- Lean Six Sigma Foundations
- Lean Supply Chain Management: A Handbook for Stategic Procurement (Book)
- Purchasing Foundations
- Revise a Quote and Versioning (Video)
- Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Foundations
- Supply Chain Foundations: Analytics
- Supply Chain Foundations: Managing the Process
- Supply Chain Management For Dummies, 3rd Edition (Book)
- The Palgrave Handbook of Supply Chain Management (Book)
Time Management
- Determining Your Time Management Style (Video)
- Efficient Time Management
- Finding Your Time Management Style
- Five Ways to Control Your Time
- Getting Things Done
- How to Get Things Done Ahead of Deadlines
- How to Organize Your Time and Your Life
- How to Set Goals When Everything Feels Like a Priority
- Mistakes to Avoid When Managing Your Time
- Prioritizing Your Tasks
- Successful Time Management for Dummies (Book)
- The Power of Lists to Get Stuff Done
- Time Management
- Time Management & Managing Priorities (Skill Benchmark)
- Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library) (Book)
- Time Management Fundamentals
- Time Management Made Simple (Audiobook)
- Time Management that Works (Book)
- Time Management Tips