Procurement Specialist - Indirect

Procurement Specialist - Indirect

About Lamb Weston : You've probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world. A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You'll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you'll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar - together. If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary : The Procurement Specialist - Indirect works in cooperation with the global or regional category teams to support the development and execution of sourcing practices for MRO and Capex. The key activities include interaction with cross functional stakeholders to manage spend and market analytics, generating insights from bid events, preparing supplier negotiation materials, supporting project execution and supplier relationship management, and driving controls and compliance (including definition of buying channels, execution, and monitor of those). Procurement Specialist act as a point of interaction between Manufacturing Plants, Global Engineering, and Facility Management.

Job Description :

• Participate in strategic planning and the execution of sourcing practices
• Defines requirements and templates for analytics and market intelligence.
• Supports the continuous improvement and standardization of the strategic sourcing processes.
• Analyzes spend baseline, Category Area profile, and market insights to support development of Category and supplier strategies.
• Supports the development of Go-To-Market and negotiation strategies in alignment with the Category Manager and ensure proper documentation thereof.
• Performs supplier analysis including supplier screening, financials, and capability assessments to support supplier selection process.
• Executes end-to-end sourcing projects for less complex
• Performs supplier selection and fact-based negotiations.
• Provides support to regions and countries on a case-by-case basis to offset local or global skills gaps (brings specific Category or technical knowledge to key stakeholder meetings and negotiations).
• Builds up knowledge repository and encourages active enhancement by Global areas based on local experience.
• Assists and actively supports in supplier relationship
• Drives supplier performance by lifting and shifting best practices from one region to another region.
• Monitors, controls and reports KPI's for the assigned category.
• Productivity and Payment Terms recording and tracking.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications :

Education / Certifications : (Required & Preferred) Bachelor's degree in related field required.

Skills and Experience :