Senior Procurement Specialist: Lead-Time & PO Optimization

Dsv Air & Sea SAU; West Valley City (UT); On-site; USD 58,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

DSV is seeking a Senior Procurement Specialist in Utah to ensure procurement commitments align with lead times and to manage supplier schedules and purchase orders for timely delivery.

You will coordinate with demand planning, expediting, and vendor teams, escalating issues and driving on-time shipment. The role requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent and 2–4 years of related experience, with a strong analytical and interpersonal skill set.

Qualifications

• This is an intermediate level position.
• Exceptional interpersonal and analytical skills required.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred, high school diploma program or equivalent required.
• Generally prefer 2-4 years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all commitments from the various demand planning groups are within the agreed upon product lead times.
• Resolve delays in providing the needed material within the agreed upon timeline.
• Manage the lead times of all POs placed on behalf of the customer and report on agreed upon lead times.
• Expedite PO’s as needed.
• Ensure the recommit process is followed as needed.
• Review the back log report and coordinate any exculations with the supplier and review these recommits and any rejected expedited requests.
• Review the suppliers build/ship plans ensuring the plan will meet the commitments based on the PO commit dates.
• Review potential on time shipment, OTS, issues to eliminate any orders shipping after the scheduled date or OTS, and document the issues and report on these issues weekly.
• Manually scheduling of orders falling outside of the product's scheduled lead time with the supplier and identify reasons why product is not schedule within lead time.
• Monitor lead time of all POs ensuring the POs are shipped within lead time and reporting on the lead time commitment obtainment and manage the process why the lead time was not obtained to correct any issues.
• The individual in this position must be capable of performing all of the essential functions with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

DSV is seeking a Senior Procurement Specialist in Utah to ensure procurement commitments align with lead times and to manage supplier schedules and purchase orders for timely delivery.

You will coordinate with demand planning, expediting, and vendor teams, escalating issues and driving on-time shipment. The role requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent and 2–4 years of related experience, with a strong analytical and interpersonal skill set.