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

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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