Procurement Specialist

Company Overview
At Everon, we truly believe that our people are the difference – for our organization, the customers we serve and the communities we protect. When you're a part of Everon, you'll have the opportunity to be a part of that difference every day. With more than 100 locations, a deep national presence, and comprehensive portfolio of solutions and services, our employees are always poised for career advancement and growth. For more information, visit or follow us on LinkedIn.

Position Summary
This position is critical to the Everon Sourcing and Procurement organization and reports to Manager, Procurement. This individual will contribute and support the Order Management process company-wide by interfacing with internal customers as well as Everon suppliers to ensure operational efficiencies.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Requisitions and Purchase Order maintenance (cancellations, updates, etc). Support ordering activity associated to any program or agreements outside the normal Procurement process.
• Identify gaps and improvement opportunities for internal requisition and ordering process as well as external Supplier processes for acknowledgement, promise dates and reporting. Drive actions to implement solutions/corrective actions and streamline the procurement activities. Examples include drive parts to blanket agreements, introduce more vendors to EDI.
• Drive resolution of invoice issues between Everon Branches and Product suppliers. Lead activities correct and reduce the problems causing the invoice issues.
• Maintain reports that provide guidance and status related to the functional activities. These report include the key performance metrics of the organization as well as metrics to measure vendor performance.
• Ensure accuracy of the item master in terms of sourcing rule and pricing. Maintain Sales Pilot requests and aligned to the Oracle Item Master.

Skills

• Team Work and Relationship Building: Can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; can represent his/her own interests and yet be fair to other groups; can solve problems with others with a minimum of noise; is seen as a team player and is cooperative; provides candid, complete, and "actionable" feedback to others; shares wins and successes; easily gains trust and support of others; encourages engagement of others.
• Priority Setting: Spends time on what's important, eliminates roadblocks, creates focus
• Organizational Agility: Knows how to get things done through formal channels and informal networks
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations on internal and external customers, gains trust and respect.
• Effective communications skills, including the ability to persuasively present information both in writing and verbally
• Must have good MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word) skills

Experience

• Experience with ERP applications such as MS Dynamics 365 a significant plus
• Minimum 3-5 years experience with procurement, order management, materials management or relevant technical/analytical discipline.
• Ideally can demonstrate a successful track record in similar operating environments (center-led, matrixed, complex).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in Computer skills (Word, Power point, Excel (Advanced), Microsoft Power platform)

Education/Certification

• Bachelor degree in business, materials/logistics management, or a technical field