Manufacturing and Operations

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Do you have experience with purchasing and contract negations? Do you enjoy cultivating and maintaining suppler relationships? Want to work for the company who makes the coolest thing in Fort Atkinson AND work from home two days a week? Spacesaver is recruiting for a Strategic Sourcing Agent to join our team!

What will you do;

• Research, identify, develop and implement tools, processes, or infrastructures to negotiate "best" - price, quality, service and achieve best practices and lowest global cost sources of assigned commodity
• Prepare Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Quote (RFQ), analyze supplier responses and quotes, lead or facilitate supplier selection, negotiations and facilitate contract blanket orders
• Track commodity spending and monitor process compliance to document savings and process improvements. Communicate progress, barriers, risks and benefits to appropriate management levels
• Ensure that detailed documentation is developed, approved and retained on implementation of continuous improvement initiatives and process improvements by suppliers in assigned commodities.
• Manage the tracking of market trends such as cost drivers, levers and competitive situations
• Develop methods to systematically gather and report metrics on vendor performance using vendor scorecards and monitoring supplier continuous improvement objectives
• Develop hedging strategies to protect Spacesaver from the impacts associated with negative market movements
• Serve as an expert on the characteristics, capabilities, and applicability of specialized and highly technical items being procured. Develop economic projections on key products/commodities and services affecting our business

Spacesaver is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

Required Skills

What we are looking for;

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Purchasing with 5 years progressive buying experience or 3 years progressive buying experience and in-depth knowledge of Spacesaver products.
• CPIM certification is preferred (APICS certification)
• Possess proficient data entry, PC competency to include Microsoft Excel and Word
• Strong analytical skills are required to identify trends in procurement and to understand strategic trends in commodity they support
• Strong negotiation skills are required
• A positive self-starter!

Required Experience

Are our values a match?

• No one succeeds alone.
• Be productive with purpose.
• Innovate-Wild ideas are highly encouraged.
• Understand the world through your customer's eyes
• Run it like you own it-because you do!