Procurement Specialist (temporary 8 month assignment)

Parexel has an opportunity for a Procurement Specialist to join our global procurement team on a temporary basis. This role will start in January and end at the end of August.

The Procurement Specialist is expected to develop local/regional relationships with internal customers.

They must analyze and understand customer requirements in order to provide professional advice and

ongoing support to meet their business requirements. The Procurement Specialist provides specialized

procurement knowledge, commodity analysis and maintains ongoing commercial relationships between

Parexel and its supplier. The Procurement Specialist will also play a role in supplier management,

working closely with local/regional suppliers to develop business relationships that help facilitate a

more streamlined approach to sourcing while ensuring through negotiation that price competitiveness

and high levels of service are maintained.

Key Accountabilities

 Assists customers in the Americas with budget planning and development of a detailed analysis of their

requirements.

 Maintains close working relationships and provides professional advice and assistance to customers in the Americas by but not limited to:

- Ensuring accuracy of order placement, method of shipment, and payment terms.

- Addressing inquiries and resolving transactional supplier issues.

- Providing requested services for market information and data.

 Manage supplier databases and other tools that support supplier evaluation criteria and supplier

selection.

 Assists with the set up, data input and maintenance of on-line catalogs.

 Reviews the supplier qualification information provided and recommends supplier status.

 Develops existing local/regional supplier relationships and reviews alternate sources, ensuring

continuity of supply, consistency of quality, and competitive pricing.

Negotiates contract terms and conditions with local/regional suppliers to ensure optimum price

competitiveness and service levels are maintained.

 Manages tactical elements of local/regional contracts and provides quarterly reporting on contractual

related matters.

 In association with general supplier management responsibilities regularly and proactively reviews

terms to ensure optimum benefits are secured and monitors supplier performance and adherence to

contract terms.

 Assist, as required, in the development of contract strategy, sourcing strategy, quality management,

supplier selection, resolving supplier performance related issues and improvement of procurement

processes.

 Provides procurement and business management, with statistical, general and financial information as

well as regular status reports and metrics on procurement related activities.

 Participates/leads local and regional compliance audit activities as needed.

 Provide local and regional input to RFQs when working with Senior Procurement Specialist or

Category & Sourcing Manager.QualificationsQualified candidates will possess:

Sound knowledge of procurement principles, theories, concepts and processes.

 Ability to develop solutions to procurement problems and provide high quality and/or creative

solutions.

 Strong analytical, problem solving, reporting, and presentation skills.

 Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

 Good negotiation skills.

 Ability to work effectively in cross-functional business teams.

 Demonstrated strengths in relationship building and conflict management.

 Demonstrated ability to meet goals and deadlines.

 Good process and project management skills.

 Procurement experience with a large spend company, typically gained over 2- 4 years.

 Exposure to global operations and/or professional services or life sciences is desirable.

Strong English language (written and verbal) skills.

 Ability to speak, write, and read a second language desirable.

High School Diploma/A Levels/HND or equivalent experience.

 Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience desirable