Abacus Solutions Group is recruiting for a Procurement Specialist in the Pittsburg area. This role manages the assigned categories of IT spend. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other key colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies, negotiates/terminates contracts, and supports spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to global IT category tail spend initiative to deliver key category performance indicators, including: savings, supplier rationalization, spend consolidation, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, and spend under agreement

• Supports the execution of global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with preferred suppliers that meet key business needs and category management goals

Technical Responsibilities

• Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & migrate spend from non-preferred suppliers

• Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals

• Leads the impact of cost and risk when developing contracts

• Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy

Leadership Responsibilities

• Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure all category sourcing activities are aligned to a common set of goals and priorities

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field. Master’s Degree is preferred

• Minimum of 5 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience

• Business insight – knows how to assess market/business requirements dynamics and negotiate agreements that yield meaningful business value

• Experience working in highly regulated industries

• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results

• Demonstrated consultative/collaborative style in performing sourcing activities

• Influences without authority to motivate and manage a cross-functional team in multiple geographies.

• Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical industries is preferred