Strategic Procurement Specialist

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Strategic Procurement Specialist within Siemens Energy’s Aeroderivative Gas Turbine procurement team, you will play a key role in developing and running a competitive, transparent, and sustainable supply chain. Your day will involve collaborating with internal stakeholders and suppliers to drive productivity, quality and digitalization. You will be responsible for supplier negotiations, contract management, and strategic sourcing to ensure the procurement function contributes to affordable clean energy.

How You’ll Make An Impact

- Implement commodity strategies and define local/regional sourcing strategies by analyzing market trends, identifying new suppliers and leverage insights to optimize procurement strategy.

- Lead sourcing actives, projects and negotiations for complex aerospace and industrial type components to optimize cost opportunities and contract coverage and undertake contractual and price negotiations with key suppliers. Support internal procurement transformation programs.

- Plan negotiations, define awarding strategies, and prepare sourcing board approvals while ensuring alignment with commodity strategy.

- Manage relationships with assigned suppliers, contributing to EcoSystem commodity strategy and developing a preferred supplier list. Conduct regular business review with strategic suppliers.

- Identify and mitigate procurement risks while implementing strategic measures.

- Ensure a close cooperation with internal customers to ensure customer care and early involvement. Foster usage of e-procurement tools with the vision to enhance data, increase automation, drive standardization of management information dashboards, and encourage supplier collaboration.

What You Bring

- Bachelor’s degree supply chain management, business administration, or in a related field.

- 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing/commodity management with a complex, and global environment.

- Excellent commercial, contractual, and project management acumen. Familiar with component manufacturing process and quality standards. Experience working with a supply supplier base in a matrix organization.

- Knowledge of working with a global supplier base, in a matrix environment.

- Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. Outstanding Excel skills for data analysis and reporting.

- Analytical skills, proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and SAP. Strong negotiation skills.

Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.

About The Team Gas Services

Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Rewards/Benefits

- Career growth and development opportunities

- Supportive work culture

- Company paid Health and wellness benefits

- Paid Time Off and paid holidays

- 401K savings plan with company match

- Family building benefits/Parental leave

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