Senior Procurement Specialist

Department: Procurement

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Bloomfield - New Jersey

Reporting To: Procurement Manager

Description

At Lummus Technology, innovation thrives, and excellence is a shared pursuit. When you join the Lummus Family, you are empowered to make an impact and be part of a dynamic team that celebrates creativity, encourages professional development, and fosters collaboration.

From our technology portfolio to our global workforce, Lummus is growing at a rapid pace, and we hope that you will grow with us during this exciting time.

Job Overview

The Senior Procurement Specialist oversees the entire project procurement lifecycle, from sourcing to manufacturing and delivery. This involves issuing inquiries, evaluating bids, and issuing purchase orders for a wide range of engineered equipment, materials, and services. This also entails review and completion of all purchase order documents, ensuring that all essential elements as terms and conditions, scope of work, pricing, payment terms, marking, packaging, shipping details, warrantees, and the applicable signatures are included. Ensures effective communication among different disciplines and external suppliers and maintains proper records of communications.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze requisition packages and bids for completion and quality assessment
• Prepare and obtain approvals for commercial bid tabulations and recommendations
• Identify, resolve, or mitigate performance issues relating to supplier performance while ensuring a positive working relationship with key or top suppliers
• Coordinate technical evaluations with relevant engineers
• Collaborate with the Manager Procurement to select potential sellers and formalize a bidders list
• Conduct negotiations with potential sellers proficiently
• Independently conduct meetings and negotiations
• Solid understanding of the company’s purchasing terms and conditions
• Prepare commercial meeting minutes
• Generate and submit inquiry packages to obtain sufficient acceptable bids
• Evaluate transportation and related logistic matters
• Coordinate Inspection activities with 3rd party inspection agencies
• Preparation, verification, and issuance of purchase orders
• Furnish necessary planning and scheduling information to the Project Controls department
• Maintain updated requisition and purchase order status reports
• Coordinate reported non-conformances pertaining to sellers, in collaboration with the Project Manager
• Expedite documentation and materials to ensure timely delivery
• Review of seller invoices, issuing payment claims and maintain close communication with accounts payable
• Manage potential back charges to seller, while keeping the Manager Procurement informed
• Evaluate and record supplier performances
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 6+ years of project procurement experience with engineered equipment
• Strong understanding of the procurement process
• Ability to improvise, be flexible, handle challenging circumstances
• Ability to work effectively independently as well as collaboratively with team
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills, both internal and external
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate favorable terms and conditions with suppliers to achieve cost savings and mitigate risks
• Proficiency in analyzing market trends, supplier performance data, and supplier financial information to make informed procurement decisions
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office. (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  
  

Company Overview

With a heritage spanning more than 115 years and a focus on innovation that has resulted in more than 140 technologies and 4,100 patents, Lummus is the global leader in the development and implementation of process technologies that make modern life possible.

Available Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Medical Insurance
• Prescription
• Health Savings Account
• Health Advocate
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Account (Health care, Dependent care and Limited Purpose)
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D (employee, spouse and child)
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Voluntary Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity
• Identify Theft
• Legal
• Commuter Benefit Plan
• Lummus Savings Plan