Buyer III [SK-20314]

Skill is partnering with a leading global enterprise, renowned for its commitment to innovation and excellence in manufacturing. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team that plays a pivotal role in optimizing the supply chain and driving significant financial impact. You will be instrumental in transforming complex data into strategic sourcing decisions, directly contributing to efficiency, cost savings, and operational continuity across our client’s extensive network. Your analytical prowess and strategic insights will empower category leaders, streamline processes, and ensure robust, audit-ready procurement practices. Buyer III will provide analytical, sourcing-event, systems, and administrative support to the Logistics and Pallets category leaders. This role converts complex spend, lane, volume, part-number, supplier, and pricing data into accurate bid baselines, supplier comparisons, scenario models, award recommendations, and implementation files that enable timely, fact-based sourcing decisions. The position supports the full sourcing lifecycle, including pre-bid data preparation, eSourcing RFQ administration, quote validation, bid analysis, scenario modeling, award documentation, SAP and master-data updates, contract and rate-file administration, supplier follow-up, and post-award implementation. The analyst partners with Strategic Sourcing, Logistics, Manufacturing, Distribution, Finance, Operations, Packaging Engineering, Purchasing Support Group (PSG), Data Analytics, and suppliers to maintain data quality, process discipline, and audit-ready records. This individual serves as a shared analytical and execution resource for Logistics and Pallets, reducing non-value-added administrative workload for category leaders while strengthening sourcing speed, accuracy, governance, and continuity. Specific Responsibilities Sourcing Event & Bid Execution Support Support Logistics and Pallets sourcing events from project intake through award implementation and savings handoff. Extract, consolidate, cleanse, normalize, and validate historical spend, shipment, lane, volume, supplier, material, plant, and pricing data. Create bid-ready baselines, scope files, pricing templates, supplier response templates, lane matrices, part-number files, and stakeholder validation packages. Create and administer eSourcing RFQs in Jaggaer or the applicable sourcing platform, including supplier invitations, event setup, communications, response tracking, deadline management, and event documentation. Validate supplier submissions for completeness, formula integrity, units of measure, currencies, freight terms, surcharges, accessorials, lead times, minimum order quantities, capacity, and commercial exceptions. Prepare quotation comparisons, bid summaries, supplier scorecards, gating documents, and fact-based award recommendation materials. Maintain sourcing-event records, approvals, supplier communications, and final decision files in the designated repository. Baseline Creation, Price Analysis & Scenario Modeling Build and maintain current-state baselines using validated prices, volumes, freight assumptions, lane activity, part-number demand, rebates, surcharges, index mechanisms, and other total-cost components. Perform price variance, year-over-year, market-benchmark, invoice-to-contract, and supplier-to-supplier analyses. Develop scenario models by supplier, lane, site, region, mode, part number, volume tier, award share, and service requirement. Use advanced Excel tools to model total landed cost, freight impacts, fuel and accessorial charges, pallet material impacts, volume changes, rebates, payment terms, and implementation tradeoffs. Identify data anomalies, missing rates, duplicate records, inconsistent units, formula errors, expired pricing, and other issues that could distort bid outcomes. Clearly document assumptions, exclusions, sensitivities, data sources, and limitations so category leaders and Finance can validate the an…

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