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Contract Specialist
Contract: Lake Forest, Illinois, US
Salary Range: 28.00 - 30.00 | Per Hour
Job Code: 349695
End Date: 2024-06-21
Job Status: Expired
This Job is no longer accepting applications
What you’ll Work On:
- Maintain good relations with internal and external customers by ensuring professional behavior and by processing their inquiries in a timely manner
- Proactively seek innovative ways to improve the procurement processes, cycle times, and customer service levels
- Act as primary point of contact for buyers, end users and suppliers
- Develop business relationship with suppliers to preserve good business reputation while still obtaining competitive prices
- Lead resolution on issues and invoice error
- PO change management and communicate trends of changes
- Resolves complaints and disputes between requestors, purchasing, receiving, vendors, and any other applicable stakeholders
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree: Engineering, Science, Business, or Financial Degrees
- 2-4 years of or Procurement experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Given a corporate contract template, extensive experience with negotiating and writing contracts, statements of work and confidentiality agreements
- Strong experience in finding cost savings
- Experience with SAP Ariba and/or Coupa procurement platforms is a plus
- Experience with Lean and/or Six Sigma methodologies is a plus
- CPM certification desired
- Procurement skills including contracting, negotiations, and supplier relationship management. Experience managing and acting to achieve KPIs such as savings target, cycle time reductions
- Ability to identify a problem, work with extended team to frame it, determine root cause, drive to potential solutions, and build and present a business case
- Strong people skills and stong problem solving skills
- Skilled in spreadsheet programs
- Good communication skills (written and verbal)
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Good interdisciplinary, intercultural, influence, and networking skills
Job Requirement
- negotiation
- contracts
- SAP Ariba
- Coupa
- Excel
- vendors
Reach Out to a Recruiter
- Recruiter
- Phone
- Sanjay Rawat
- sanjay.rawat@collabera.com
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