Procurement Specialist

Job description

Accountability: This position is responsible for procuring, negotiating, and maintaining of various commodities, inventory and expense, to support market sales of Fives Cincinnati products. Scope and Responsibilities: Education/Certification: Experience: Skills: - Proactively attains a safe and healthy work environment for all employees. - Generate and adjusts purchase orders for assigned commodities requirements. - Input, maintain and adjust records or transactions to ensure system validity. - Evaluate material requirements for assigned commodities. - Negotiate lead time and stocking levels for assigned commodities. - Generate request for quotation, negotiates with and selects suppliers. - Compile, summarizes and communicates supplier performance. - Work with suppliers (and potentially cross-functional internal teams) to address lead time reduction, want date integrity, quality performance, cost reduction efforts and technical improvements. - Consolidate suppliers to reduce supplier base, while still maintaining at least two sources allowing competitive conditions for commodities. - Investigate and evaluates new supplier sources in cooperation with Quality & Engineering personnel....