One of our clients is looking for a talented and highly motivated Buying Professional 4. Please send your resume if you would like to pursue this opportunity and you authorize Infosoft to represent you for this position. 

Here are the job position details for your review: 

Job Title: Buying Professional 4
Pay Rate: $29 to $33.61/HR
Duration: 12 months
Job Requisition: EJP00017616
Location: Houston, TX
Shift: 8 am to 4 pm

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This position is for the Power/Energy division.

We are looking for Buying Professional 4
 

• Implements Commodity strategies to ensure long-term, cost-efficient supply of materials.
• Contributes to implementation and ensures usage of globally defined methods, processes, and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g. compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems).
• Prepares and conducts negotiations to obtain the highest feasible savings.
• Generates, documents, and implements savings to contribute to the success of the business and make results transparent.
• Executes Supplier Management processes (e.g. qualification, selection, evaluation, development, classification).
• Ensures close cooperation with Internal Customers (requisitioners) to ensure customer care and early involvement.
• Provides supplier information to the project and conducts project-specific supplier evaluations (project evaluations). 

Impacts: 

• Category Procurement Team Management (medium) - Local / Regional Category Procurement Professional - Local / Regional: Positions focusing on identifying regional or global suppliers, markets, or regions, for an assigned group of commodities, semi-products, services portfolio, either directly or indirectly used in own product portfolio, in the various BU of Client. 
• Identifying and analyzing internal customer needs, analyzing and discussing technical specifications, in cooperation with the Sales Management responsible or together with the technical Project Manager. 
• Prepares negotiations and contracts. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• "Senior Professional" Positions need senior professional expertise, with extensive functional, commercial, and technical knowledge in an area of competence. 
• They integrate analysis, development, testing, and implementation. 
• They interpret and functionally influence policy and guidelines in their area of business/technology, and develop processes and systems to deliver functional objectives. 
• They typically plan their own work according to targets agreed upon, within a quarterly up to an annual cycle, by integrating resources in a project-driven environment. 
• They provide functional advice and guidance to colleagues and customers. 
• A chartered professional qualification or equivalent is typically associated with grades (though not necessary). 

Experience: 

• 10+/- years. 

Knowledge: 

• Deep professional know-how and experience in one Sub Job Family. Masters domain. 
• Transfers and applies know-how to/in various contexts. 
• Solid professional judgment and problem-solving competence. Improves existing processes and approaches