Senior Procurement Specialist Position Available In Montgomery, Pennsylvania

At Greene, Tweed, you’ll find the cutting-edge technology, world-class polymer expertise and endless advancement opportunities you’d expect from a multi-national industry leader. You’ll find them all in an environment that embraces diversity in people and opinions, moves decision making to the point of impact, and celebrates your success. If you enjoy continuous learning and are excited about working with and creating technological solutions, explore career opportunities with Greene, Tweed. Responsible for implementing the day-to-day procurement requirements to support an assigned set of raw materials, parts, and/or services potentially linked to a manufacturing site or segment, category, and/or business within a time horizon focus of present day to 1 year. Responsibilities include soliciting and receiving quotes, supplier selection and elimination purchase order (PO) entry and maintenance and issue resolution. The procurement specialist role strives to achieve best value at lowest cost while considering quality, reliability of source, risk to the business, and urgency of need.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Place purchase orders based on system generated MRP requirements and/or approved purchase requisitions, maintaining accuracy while expediting/deferring purchase orders (as required) in SAP
• Process daily quote requests (including those needed for outside processors) and resolve any blocked invoices related to assigned MRP codes. Resolve price discrepancies on a day-to-day basis; optimize price/volume purchases
• Field all suppliers’ questions and concerns (related to specifications, etc.) and work internally to resolve
• Serve as the liaison between GT and the supplier base in regards to required documentation
• Provides short-term forecasts (