Location
Anchorage, AK | United States
Job description
Assignment Scope - Perform contracting and purchasing activities - reviewing, proposing revisions and implementing agreements using standard documents/forms and following contracting policies and procedures.
- Effectively work with BU business partners and stakeholders, fellow Supply Chain staff, legal and Category Managers.
- Contract authoring utilizing the Company contract tools-managing any language changes through functional review and required approval processes.
- Analyze suitability of potential suppliers in accordance with Company vendor qualification criteria.
- Maintains records of approved, current and potential suppliers by commodity or service.
- Implement contract services in a timely and cost-efficient manner within established company policies, procedures and standards.
- Coordinate formal RFX for long term commitments and sizable purchases. Performs pre-bid and pre-award meetings.
- Analyzes suitability of bids dependent on time constraints, cost and quality assurance
- Prepares bid evaluations and seeks appropriate approvals of awards..
- Supplier Performance Management - Ongoing support of the Contract Management Plans and KPI's.
- Balancing change management and resolution of any claims
- Manage an assigned list of Alaska contracts; Plan and coordinate contract needs and recommended strategies to support various client groups; provide category contract management as necessary.
- Responsible for the management of assigned Materials and related services categories.
- Purchase of material process from cradle-to-grave & related services.
- Liaise with operations teams to coordinate the purchase of materials. Issuance of Purchase Orders. PO and related invoice error resolution.
Qualifications - External
Basic/Required: - Bachelor's degree or higher in Supply Chain, Business, other related field or foreign equivalent
- 3+ years of experience in supply chain contracting
- Basic knowledge and understanding of SAP procurement activities
Preferred: - 1+ years of experience with data analytics tools such as Tibco Spotfire, and/or MS PowerBI,
- Advanced level of knowledge and understanding of commercial terms and conditions
- Basic level of proficiency in contract drafting skills
- Proven negotiation skills & ability to effectively apply analytical tools, concepts and methods
- Demonstrated ability to develop innovative commercial models focused on supplier delivery
- Able to balance large number of contracts in various stages of development in both larger and smaller/local tier
- Very strong organizational skills in document management and administration
- Proven communicator, able to operate efficiently and with transparency in a matrix environment
- Hardworking with ability to work as part of a team
- Demonstrated ethical integrity
- Flexible and creative approach with willingness to accept change
- Takes ownership of actions and follows through on commitments by holding others accountable and standing up for what's right
- Builds effective solutions based on available information and makes timely decisions that are safe and ethical
- Listens actively and invites new ideas for exchanged opinions, then influences and acts to drive positive performance and achieve results
- Builds positive relationships based on trust and seeks collaboration across organizational boundaries to achieve goals
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