战略采购专员
Strategic Sourcing Specialist
战略采购专员
全职，长期职位
该职位为远程办公，位于Graymont运营的任何省份或州
战略采购专员 - 原材料（火山灰）负责制定和执行长期采购策略和计划，以确保供应链并降低总体成本。该职位侧重于价值创造而非交易性采购，主要专注于制定区域火山灰材料和资源的全面采购策略，以支持Graymont的低碳胶凝材料解决方案（LCCS）战略。
该职位管理高价值供应商关系并协商全公司范围的协议，同时参与火山灰材料的收购策略，并支持这些材料的全球供应链工作。该职位将采购从被动活动转变为积极的、数据驱动的策略。这项工作通过降低LCCS生产的总成本，同时保持质量标准并确保火山灰材料稳定可靠地供应给Graymont的运营，直接影响Graymont的盈利能力。
职责
战略采购与品类管理
- 制定计划：为关键的火山灰品类制定多年采购计划。
- 数据分析：审查公司支出数据，识别节省成本的整合机会。
- 风险评估：评估全球市场趋势、地缘政治因素和供应链脆弱性，以确保LCCS运营的可靠供应。
- 协助收购策略：与公司团队合作，评估和评估潜在的火山灰材料收购，并参与尽职调查活动。
供应商关系管理（SRM）
- 评估供应商：建立关键绩效指标（KPI）并制定改进标准。这将包括产品质量、供应及相关绩效指标。
- 主导业务评审：与关键合作伙伴（内部和外部）定期举行业务评审，推动持续改进并保持关键信息的流通。
- 解决问题：作为火山灰材料类别的主要供应商绩效失败的升级点，同时与区域采购、供应链和运营团队合作，支持日常订单和产品流动。
- 促进创新：与供应商和相关的Graymont团队合作，评估并尽早获取新的火山灰技术和流程。
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Strategic Sourcing Specialist
Full-time, Permanent
This is a remote position located in any province or state where Graymont operates
The Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Raw Materials (Pozzolan) develops and executes long-term sourcing strategies and plans to secure supply chains and reduce overall costs. This role prioritizes value creation over transactional buying and focuses primarily on developing a comprehensive strategy for the acquisition of regional pozzolanic materials and resources to support Graymont’s low-carbon cementitious solutions (LCCS) strategy.
This role manages high-value supplier relationships and negotiates enterprise-wide agreements while participating in acquisition strategy for pozzolanic materials and supporting global supply chain efforts for these materials. The position shifts purchasing from a reactive activity to a proactive, data-driven strategy. This work directly impacts Graymont’s profitability by lowering the total cost of LCCS production while maintaining quality standards and ensuring a stable, reliable supply of pozzolanic materials to Graymont’s operations.
Responsibilities
Strategic Sourcing & Category Management
- Develop Plans: Create multi-year sourcing plans for critical pozzolanic categories.
- Analyze Data: Review company spending data to identify cost-saving consolidation opportunities.
- Assess Risk: Evaluate global market trends, geopolitical factors, and supply chain vulnerabilities to ensure reliable supply to LCCS operations.
- Assist Acquisition Strategy: Work with corporate teams to assess and evaluate potential pozzolanic material acquisitions and participate in due diligence activities.
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
- Evaluate Vendors: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and develop improvement criteria. This will include product quality, supply, and related performance metrics.
- Lead Business Reviews: Host periodic business reviews with critical partners (internal and external) to drive continuous improvement and keep critical information flowing.
- Resolve Issues: Act as the main point of escalation for major supplier performance failures in the pozzolanic material category while working with regional procurement, supply chain, and operations teams to support day-to-day ordering and product flow.
- Foster Innovation: Partner with vendors and responsible Graymont teams to assess and gain early access to new pozzolanic technologies and processes.
Contract & Price Negotiation
- Lead Supply Negotiations: Draft and manage complex Requests for Information (RFIs), Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and Requests for Quotes (RFQs), and coordinate with the Graymont teams responsible for these processes.
- Lead Price Negotiations: Secure optimal pricing, payment terms, and service level agreements (SLAs).
- Manage Contracts: Partner with legal and procurement teams to draft, review, and renew master service agreements (MSAs).
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Engineering, Natural Sciences, or a related discipline.
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, purchasing, or related assignments. Experience and working knowledge in chemistry, aggregates, and cementitious materials, including their role in product quality, performance, and sourcing decisions.
- Preferred industry background: Experience in lime, cement, aggregates, industrial minerals, construction materials, or related manufacturing environments is preferred.
- Technical Skills: Knowledge of ERP systems and Microsoft Office.
- Language Skills: English fluency required; proficiency in French considered an asset.
- Travel Requirement: Willingness and ability to travel regularly throughout the U.S. and Canada (up to 50%)
Who We Are
Founded in 1948, Graymont is a trusted global leader in essential calcium-based solutions. Professionally managed and family-owned, we proudly serve a wide range of markets, customers, and communities in North America and Asia Pacific. Graymont is also the strategic partner of Grupo Calidra, the largest lime producer in Latin America.
Graymont’s strategy is anchored in its strong commitment to its core values of integrity, respect, teamwork, innovation, excellence, accountability, and long-term perspective.
Central to our philosophy is a long-term approach to our business, built on a solid commitment to sustainable growth and focus on decarbonization, all of which is embodied in our mission statement: Contributing to a decarbonized world by providing essential lime and limestone solutions.
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