Procurement Specialist

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Role Summary:
Focus on and manage core site-based Procurement to Pay Casting related activities to meet operational objectives and provide outstanding service levels while achieving lowest total cost of acquisition for direct material, indirect goods, services and logistics.
Be an integral part of site operational supply chain team helping on execute strategies and objectives set forth by the Global Supply Chain team (GSC).
Responsibilities & Requirements:
Cost Reduction: in line with the departmental or functional annual targets
Support Forecast owners meet or exceed monthly/quarterly goals
Timely delivery: ensure production need by dates and supplier promise dates meet operational requirements to achieve customer promise dates.
Accurate Purchase Requisition Conversion: quick turnaround time to convert material demand into Purchase Orders to ensure sufficient time and accurate information is provided to suppliers for manufacturing
Purchase Order Management: manage the exception messages generated from the ERP system to support optimum levels of inventory, revision changes, cancellations, PO confirmations, supporting the closure of supplier concessions and deviations
At all times comply with Flowserve Safety, Integrity & Ethics procedures/policies
Compliance with ALL Flowserve Supply Chain policies & procedures
Preferred Experience / Skills:
Effective Communication skills
Fluent verbal and communication skills in English and Spanish
Reliable negotiation skills
Basic data analysis skills
2 years of Casting/Pattern experience in a similar role
Technical Background preferred
Ability to read and understand industrial pump part drawings
Bachelor’s degree in business (Supply Chain Management preferred)
Willingness to travel (occasional)
Casting Product / Commodity intimacy
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of changing situations
Aptitude in decision-making and working with numbers
Proven working experience with SAP / Oracle