Strategic Global Procurement Lead

TMEIC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

TMEIC in Houston is seeking a Purchasing professional to source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to meet cost, quality, and service targets across assigned categories.

Responsibilities include supplier risk assessment, competitive quoting, managing ERP-based purchase orders, and coordinating with project managers to ensure on-time delivery while optimizing total cost of ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience.
• 5 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment.
• 3 years of experience sourcing new suppliers.
• 1 year of experience negotiating complex agreements.
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts.
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and an ERP.
• Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions, and implement as approved.
• Evaluate new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company's quality system.
• Identify and develop new suppliers globally to support business unit needs and lower costs.
• Negotiate with suppliers to achieve lower material cost and on time delivery.
• Manage performance evaluation of assigned product's supplier.
• Negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements directly with suppliers.
• Recommend and implement risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to business unit management.
• Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and lead supplier recovery activities.
• Generate the ERP buyer's report that identifies the requisitions to be processed and determine order of priority.
• Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management.
• Notify Expeditor of orders which must be expedited in addition to those scheduled in the ERP.
• Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products.
• Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions.
• Reconcile PO and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers.
• Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to finance department.
• Notify finance department of new ship-to locations of suppliers.
• Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist.
• Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner.
• Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management.
• Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company.

Skills

Negotiation

Supplier relationship management

Analytical skills

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Outlook

ERP systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Oracle

ERP system

Job description

TMEIC in Houston is seeking a Purchasing professional to source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to meet cost, quality, and service targets across assigned categories.

Responsibilities include supplier risk assessment, competitive quoting, managing ERP-based purchase orders, and coordinating with project managers to ensure on-time delivery while optimizing total cost of ownership.