Operations Solution Center Procurement Specialist I

Overview

Operations Solution Center Procurement Specialist I role responsible for blanket and discrete purchase agreements, price list and supplier data maintenance, and spend analysis within Trane Technologies' procurement operations.

What you'll do

• Create blanket/discrete purchase agreements and maintain pricing in accordance with the defined Procurement approval process.
• Maintain the price list and blanket purchase agreements for cost changes/cancellations, pricing, pay terms, items, planner name, unit of measure, sourcing rules, approved supplier list and part link to supplier data.
• Maintain direct material purchase order records.
• Assure adherence to blanket purchase agreement/price list and change order approval process.
• Assure compliance with the Blanket Purchase Agreement/Price list audit process.
• Communicate closed loop to inform stakeholders.
• Analyze historical and forecasted spend data and develop category strategy to identify opportunities for improvement, supplier rationalization, savings and consolidation.
• Manage the approved supplier list, ensuring new supplier onboarding and approval are validated before adding a new supplier to the ASL.
• Manage system supplier set-up, including source document, supplier schedule, planning constraint and inventory set-up.
• Act as data steward to ensure compliance with Finance, Procurement and Materials policies and procedures.
• Resolve price PO to invoice discrepancies with suppliers and accounting by mediating approved guidance from commodity management.
• Handle additional projects and ad hoc responsibilities around material strategies.

What you'll need

• Experience job type: 3 to 5 years in sourcing or procurement.
• Education: any graduate.
• ERP system knowledge; Oracle R12 software and systems integration details preferred, or any ERP system.
• Bachelor's degree in business, management information systems, finance, accounting, or related discipline required, plus 5 or more years of experience with business systems.
• Ability to support US Central timezone.
• Great command of the English language.
• Experience in Lean transactional management, A3 thinking, and 9 Steps problem solving track record.
• Good command of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Excellent customer service: commitment to solve problems and requests, understanding of customer needs, business and priorities.
• Excellent problem solving abilities; solves the majority of problems with no or minimal supervision; recognizes developing problems and brings them to attention; uses intuition and logic to anticipate problems; may require providing coaching and advice to others.
• Phone etiquette awareness.
• Must be able to work well and adapt to change in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must have ability to work well in a virtual team environment and effectively collaborate across multiple teams.
• Understands business processes and can relate actions to business outcomes.
• Ability to analyze and document complex business processes.
• Solid interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and motivate associates and interact with various departments.
• Team-oriented proactive change agent with a hands-on, collaborative approach in implementing and maintaining operating disciplines while leveraging lean methodologies.
• Problem solving techniques, including A3 thinking and 9 Steps problem solving track record.
• Process improvement tools such as Managing for Daily Improvement.
• Project management and planning tools, measuring and monitoring of project activities and project documentation.
• Proficiency in information technology systems used in Quality Management Systems and process.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Oracle R12 software and systems integration details.
• Spanish language skills.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka.
• Work mode: Monday to Thursday onsite with colleagues; Fridays, choose work location based on work requirements.
• Employment type: Experienced (full-time role as listed).