AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people's lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect.

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Why work at AdvanSix?
• We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being
• Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development
• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences

Position Summary: The Procurement Commodity Lead, Corporate Services and Sustainability, develops and executes sourcing strategies, evaluates products and services offerings, recommends suppliers, and negotiates contracts. This position engages and maintains strong partnerships primarily with the IT organization and other assigned corporate departments. This role places purchase orders, maintains systems such as SAP, vendor management, and contract management, and collaborates with Accounts Payable to enable supplier payments.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collects business requirements to identify and pre-qualify potential suppliers
• Develops, distributes, and compiles supplier information through RFPs/RFQs
• Analyzes and negotiates proposals for quality, service, cost, payment term or other criteria
• Recommends suppliers that are the best fit for purpose to meet stakeholder requirements
• Partners with Legal and suppliers to develop mutually acceptable contractual agreements
• Implements and maintains supplier information across relevant internal systems
• Processes purchase requisitions and purchase orders in a timely manner
• Ensures internal stakeholder needs are understood and communicated to suppliers
• Works with suppliers as needed to resolve order issues
• Leverages spend to preferred suppliers through effective stakeholder communications
• Supports business continuity planning and continuous improvement opportunities across key suppliers and categories to improve total cost and minimize potential service risks
• Manages metrics necessary to ensure stakeholder satisfaction and ongoing competitiveness of procured products and services.
• Ensure procurement activities and needs are met in a manner that comply with internal policies and external regulations
• Support requirements for supplier engagement with Together for Sustainability (TfS)

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or related field, or relevant working experience
• 5+ years of experience in procurement or related role
• Procurement experience across corporate services areas, with a preference on expertise with negotiating, managing contracts, and driving supplier performance related to the IT function.

Additional Qualifications:

• Demonstrated analytical skills using MS Excel and PowerPoint required

• Details and results orientation that is comfortable working within tight deadlines
• Strong stakeholder engagement orientation to build effective relationships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate at different levels across an organization; good interpersonal skills
• Creative problem solving that includes a challenger and growth mindset
• Ability to organize and prioritize assigned work using project management and other tools
• Some travel may be required,

At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past work experience doesn't perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

Other details

• Job Family FI04 - Procurement
• Pay Type Salary

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