Job Description

Job Location La Porte, TX 77571

Procurement Analyst

The Procurement Analyst will be located in La Porte, TX, and will report to the Supply Chain Director. This position will be focused on procurement tasks and particularly on indirect procurement (all buying and receipting activities not related to product packaging or raw material). Additionally, this position will support the maintenance team in linking material and service requisitions to work orders, and tracking inventory.

Job responsibilities

• Assist Accounts Payable to identify the related purchasing document, for any incoming invoice
• Monitor requisitions for La Porte (LAP): ensure approval received timely
• Create purchase order (PO) for any approved requisition at LAP
• Monitor receipts, follow up on any outstanding receipts to ensure timely close of PO line items
• Set up new vendors, and work with accounting to provide standard credit references and share typically requested information in an efficient and consistent manner
• Create purchasing master data, with the goal of minimizing non-inventory procurement
• Work with maintenance to link purchasing to work orders (WO), for maximum traceability
• Monitor any purchasing non-conformances and helps to steward purchasing key performance indicators (KPI); provide local updates to La Porte Plant Manager
• Identify any process improvements including ERP access and training needs, receipt quality and validation, or other master data and process/system requirements
• Coordinate active site contracts, monitoring notice and renewal timelines and maintaining updated contacts for utilities and other contract relationships
• Support requisitioners to source materials and services, building relationships with suppliers for regularly-purchased materials and services
• Support facility cost-saving initiatives, enabling quality long-term procurement practices with stocking and sourcing decisions, and by periodically coordinating bid and negotiation activities

Qualifications and Skills:

• Tracking committed spend and outstanding purchasing milestones
• Attention to detail, thoroughness, and organization
• Ability to think critically and manage in detail, to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner
• Data analysis
• Vendor relationships
• Computer proficiency and efficient data entry
• Excel proficiency and general arithmetic / numeracy
• Proactive and thorough communication, both verbal and written
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced team environment, with good interpersonal skills

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent required
• Bachelor’s degree in business-related field preferred
• Previous experience with purchasing and/or ERP systems preferred
• Previous experience in a manufacturing environment preferred

Qualifications