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Senior Procurement
 Spectraforce Technologies | |
 United States, Pennsylvania, West Point | |
 Jun 09, 2025 | |
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Title - Senior Procurement Duration - 5 Months Location - Remote Qualifications: Employees within the Sourcing Operations group in the PCD Outsourcing function are responsible for conducting business operations activities associated with executing outsourcing activities at external CROs or collaborators. The Group is seeking a dynamic and collaborative employee to support the business sourcing activities for PCD (Preclinical Development) outsourcing. This position will be directly accountable to the Outsourcing organization and will also interface with the Client's Procurement and Finance organizations. Education Qualification: Bachelor's Degree is required. Required Experience: * Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment with a diversity of stakeholders (internal and external) * Highly organized with excellent attention to detail and follow-through * Ability to prioritize work effectively and handle high volume transactional work with both fidelity and efficiency * Good problem-solving skills. Ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations or on more complex problems * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Self-motivated with a positive attitude and proven performance record. Preferred Experience: * Working knowledge of SAP/Ariba or other financial systems * Proficient in Excel and data manipulations * Can prioritize work for self and across the group based on judgment to set timelines and meet deadlines for scopes of work * Experience contributing to process improvement efforts to streamline operations or business infrastructure Responsibilities: Description: * Assist with building capabilities at new or existing partners as driven by business needs. * Collaborate with Outsourcing Leadership and Finance in the development of annual sourcing budgets and quarterly forecasts * Provide timely end of quarter/year data to Finance team including: sourcing actuals reconciled with SAP, variance reports and supporting commentary and invoice accruals as necessary. * Utilize various IT applications and financial systems to track open requisitions and monitor payments * Troubleshoot financial tool and workflow issues associated with PO generation, invoice reconciliation and partner payments to ensure timely resolution * Lead in adopting and improving Client-wide systems/processes for the Department * Proactively identifying potential problems, raising concerns, and seeking solutions * Providing Departmental input into cross-functional teams * Initiate purchase orders (POs) based on pre-defined scope of work and communicate to relevant stakeholders when the work may proceed * Verify that contracts and agreements with outside parties are in place prior to initiating work at external suppliers * Upon invoice receipt, verify project deliverables have been received prior to processing approval for payment * Maintain accurate records for open POs, invoice payments and close-out activities * Seek to identify opportunities to improve future-state of sourcing workflows and applications * Serve as a member on Procurement SMP (sourcing management process) teams to periodically reassess current vendor capabilities and identify new vendors as needed | |