Job Description

Ecolab Company has an opening for a Procurement Representative in our Global Procurement Team located in St. Paul, or Naperville. If you are a passionate professional that is seeking opportunity, advancement, and a rewarding career we invite you to apply. This is a great opportunity to join a highly recognized global growth company offering competitive compensation and benefits in addition to career growth.

The Procurement Representative will provide category support and engage in Total Delivered Cost (TDC) sourcing activity within the Directs-Chemicals Team. This position will report to Procurement Manager. The strong performer can expect further career advancement with Ecolab and will have the opportunity to move into other procurement and supply chain leadership roles within the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to advance your career with a stable-growing company!

What You Will Do:

• Provide support and implements Total Delivered Cost process, tools and skills to execute sourcing initiatives with specific focus on:
  • Optimize purchasing strategies by optimizing MOQs, Packaging sizes, etc.
  • Tail spend management
• Implements and monitor savings projects and reporting to include pipeline development, project execution, headwind/tailwind reporting & tracking, supplier approvals, and financial validation. Engages supplier organization and internal stakeholders to achieve project milestones and action plans
• Supports local/ regional negotiations and go-to-market activities
• Leads, manages, and communicates the status of alternate supplier approval projects. Collaborates across manufacturing, quality, planning, logistics, and suppliers to ensure project milestones and action plans are met
• Works with business to address questions & needs surrounding suppliers, markets, materials, and services
• Leads procurement work stream in quality problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates, recommends and implements quality improvements along with corrective actions
• Investigates, develops and drives actions to remedy supply disruptions and constraints. Effectively communicates updates to internal stakeholders
• Owns monitoring of vendor reliability and service levels. Engages with supplier and stakeholder contacts as needed to escalate and resolve concerns.
• Manages processes critical to the efficient functioning of the procure-to-pay process
• Implements procurement systems and process improvements to drive efficiency and effectiveness
• Leads the procurement engagement in new Supplier/Carrier introduction, approval, and setups.
• Ensure assigned spend is fully documented, categorized and reproducible in the procurement system(s)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Finance or related field OR High School Diploma and 4yrs of Procurement Experience
• Immigration Sponsorship is not offered for this role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Procurement
• Experience in the chemical/petrochemicals industry
• Experience with eProcurement tools such as GEP, PowerBI, Cirtuo, etc.

• Demonstrated skills in clear communication and good presentation skills
• Demonstrated competitive drive and strong orientation for results and achievement

You will ENJOY and OUTPERFORM in this role if you:

• Enjoy striving to do your best and are never satisfied.
• Have the tenacity to see things through.
• Are comfortable creating and navigating healthy tension to drive differentiated results.
• Have a natural curiosity and are excited & enthused by new possibilities, including leveraging digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI).
• Have the ambition to develop new skills and take on new responsibilities.

Annual or Hourly Compensation Range

The pay range for this position is $65,800.00 - $98,700.00. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

Benefits

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits.

If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website, view our benefits at jobs.ecolab.com/working-here.

Potential Customer Requirements Notice

To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:

- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

- Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, including a booster if eligible, unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Ecolab will provide reasonable accommodation (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please visit the Recruiting Support link in the footer of each page of our career website.