Purchasing Specialist

North Canton, OH, US, 44720

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of this position is to maintain, enhance and standardize the source-to-pay business process and systems across company’s SAP facilities. This includes creation of standard work for purchasing processes, source-to-pay training, compliance, auditing, creation and tracking of key performance indicators.  This includes the compliance aspects of purchasing processes such as SOX and ISO/TS certifications

Responsibilities

• Procurement Specialist – Work within a project team to integrate new acquisitions into our corporate procurement standard processes through training; and SAP & Ariba configurations.
• Procurement Training Coordinator – Engage various departments that impact the supply chain to solicit training topics and coordinate the monthly training plans for the year. 
• Manage adequate organizational help chain support for procurement processes.
• Utilize companyU, the ERP Newsletter, uPerform and other training tools to maintain organizational proficiency.
• SOX Compliance – Through the governance, risk and compliance process, ensure SAP procurement user roles and accesses create the proper separation of duties (SOD) to mitigate the risk of fraudulent procurement practices.
• Material Standards Coordinator – Work with Accounting and Supply Assurance teams yearly to improve and facilitate the process of updating the direct material standard costs of procured items by our North American facilities.
• Continuous Improvement – Review Cherwell requests and work with the procurement IT team to prioritize addressing service requests, incidents, and corrective actions.  Attend Change Advisory Board meetings to provide input/feedback on changes impacting the procurement process.
• Source-to-Pay internal and external audit support – Research and present evidence of procurement process adherence to internal and external auditors by utilizing SAP, work instructions, Oversight, and business intelligence (BI) reports; additionally, work with cross-functional teams on corrective actions.
• Data Quality Management – Ensure procurement data in SAP is greater than 95% accurate.  Create KPIs that are aligned with business objectives and drive compliance. 
• Perform other ad hoc activities in support of Source-to-Pay continuity, compliance, and improvements.

Technical/Functional Skills

• Subject Matter Expert in SAP procurement
• Cross-functional team building
• Presentation/public speaking
• Microsoft Office suite (especially Excel & PowerPoint)
• Data gathering, organization and analysis

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree of Business, Supply Chain, or related field with 12+ years of experience
• Master's Degree of Business, Supply Chain, or related field with 10+ years of experience