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Job Title:Procurement Lead
Employment Type:Full time
Address:Chicago, IL
Req ID:7106
Pay Rate:65920.0 - 98880.0

Description

  • The Procurement Lead focuses on helping to drive savings, provides analysis, and manages category performance of several categories including: IT, IT Peripherals, Product Support, temp labor, mobility, telecom, facilities, and more. Key activities include conducting analytics, managing vendors, utilizing a Procure-to-pay system, conducting QBR’s, negotiating contracts and implementing strategic sourcing activities. Responsible for appying key skills in project management, strong analysis, conducting Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and category management.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Information Technology, Operations or related field preferred
  • Two years of full-time experience in vendor analytics, strategic sourcing initiatives, buying, negotiations, company expense analysis and strategic sourcing activities for an organization (public or private)
  • Experience with procurement and vendor management systems, including Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Source-to-Pay (S2P), and Spend Analytics

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for analysis of category spend and assisting in managing categories globally to drive savings, process improvement and meet key performance indictators for category, including compliance and monitoring of contracts in alignment with company policies.
  • Develops Requests for Information (RFI’s) and RFP’s by conducting in-depth analysis across multiple systems.
  • Provides category recommendations, counter-proposals, and negotiates to identify and deliver savings to the organization. Maintains product quality standards and focuses on reducing costs.
  • Develolps compliance monitoring programs to ensure implementation strategies are measurable and successful.
  • Reviews and provides recommendations to the Procurement leadership in coordination with business stakeholders. Develops best-in-class category strategies.
  • Maintains relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organizations including local, regional and corporate leadership; understand their unique needs and ensures category strategy meets their needs.
  • Supports and maintains Procurement policies and processes, including improving vendor payment terms, contract management, driving sustainability initiatives and managing vendors.
  • Drafts and reviews contracts with vendors including SOW’s, MSA’s and addendums.
  • Works cross functionally with legal, finance and operations to ensure company policies and best practies are followed.
  • Identifies and drives continuous improvement processes and reporting.
  • Establishes strong relationships with vendors, facilitates communication, and works to ensure products or services provided meet company requirements.
  • Leads the evaluation of suppliers and works to reduce vendor risk by developing scorecards and analyzing vendor performance.

Employer

IAA Holdings, LLC (IAA), a Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers company (NYSE: RBA) and (TSX: RBA), is a trusted global marketplace for insights, services, and transaction solutions for commercial assets and vehicles. Leveraging leading-edge technology and focusing on innovation, IAA’s unique platform facilitates the marketing and sale of total-loss, damaged and low-value vehicles. IAA serves a global buyer base – located throughout over 170 countries – and a full spectrum of sellers, including insurers, dealerships, fleet lease and rental car companies, and charitable organizations. Buyers have access to multiple digital bidding and buying channels, innovative vehicle merchandising, and efficient evaluation services, enhancing the overall purchasing experience. IAA offers sellers a comprehensive suite of services aimed at maximizing vehicle value, reducing administrative costs, shortening selling cycle time and delivering the highest economic returns.

 

RB Global full-time employees are offered medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurances. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and RB Global will match 100% for the first 4% contributed.  Employees will also receive 15 days of PTO each year.


Recruiting Organization

As a global company, our corporate teams support billions of dollars in equipment sales every year.   

In joining our corporate services teams, you will be ensuring the business runs smoothly in your respective verticals and supporting the overall business to achieve our core objectives.  

Every day your work will make a difference in the way we run our business and the in the way customers interact with us.  

EEO Information

Ritchie Bros. is an equal opportunity employer and ensures nondiscrimination in all activities in accordance with all applicable laws. This position is open to all qualified applicants who are legally entitled to work in the country in which this job is located. Candidate selection is made by Talent Acquisition. Only electronic applications can be accepted.