Procurement Manager (MA25140)

Job # MA25140

Job Title Procurement Manager

Office Location Houston, TX preferred

Business/Department Logistics & Procurement/Procurement

Sales Territory, if applicable N/A

General Role Description

Develop and maintain a procurement organization to meet Mid-Range Plan (MRP) commitments within a set of capital and human resources

Role Accountabilities

-   Lead the supplier qualification, selection, and recertification processes to meet all criteria to deliver products, materials, and services to specification

-   Lead the supplier management program to ensure compliance with all Company metrics and global regulatory, product safety, ethical and regulatory compliance standards

-   Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees to ensure successful procurement for the Company

-   Develop and manage strategic sourcing relationships with key suppliers

-   Lead negotiation of Master Service Agreements (MSA) with key suppliers for all project and identified non-project purchases

-   Develop, implement, measure, and continuously improve methods to identify, optimize, measure, and monitor operational process quality and efficiency aligning with changing organizational needs and market conditions

-   Ensure forecasts for future project and non-project supply demands are developed, communicated to suppliers, and fulfilled as committed

-   Resolve supplier quality and on-time delivery issues in collaboration with business unit

-   Provide global product sourcing services for parent and group companies, as requested

General Employee Accountabilities

-   Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-   Give manager best advice

-   Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-   Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-   Exemplify Company Core Values:  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-   Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-   Recommend viable improvements proactively

-   Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Manager Accountabilities

-   Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees

-   Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team

-   Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement

-   Own the output of the team

-   Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities

-   Exercise effective managerial leadership to include

-    Two-way managerial team working

-    Fair and just treatment of direct reports

-    Context setting

-    Planning

-    Task assignment

-    Ongoing performance management

-    Coaching

-    Selection and orientation

-    De-selection and dismissal

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

-   Bachelor’s degree in business administration, supply chain management, materials management, operations management or equivalent via education and/or work experience

-   5 years’ procurement experience

-   Demonstrated experience in production and/or projects-based businesses

-   Demonstrated experience leading teams to achieve business goals

-   Demonstrated experience increasing cost and service competitiveness

-   Demonstrated successful skills and experience negotiating contracts and T&C’s

-   Demonstrated ability to understand technical products with respect to client applications

-   Demonstrated material commodity knowledge

-   Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

-   Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

-   Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

-   Proficiency in MS Office and an ERP system

-   Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 15%, sometimes, with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

-   MBA or MS degree in field related to the Company’s business

-   Demonstrated experience leading the corporate procurement function with multiple locations

-   Supply chain management experience

-   Inventory management experience

-   Freight experience

-   Oracle business system experience

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:  https://www.tmeic.com/.  To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting.  A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application.  Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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