CAPEX and MRO Buyer

Deliver cost savings, cost avoidance, working-capital improvements and value-engineering opportunities while supporting asset reliability and operational uptime. Identify, qualify and onboard suppliers, including OEMs, distributors, contractors and service providers, to improve competition, capability, lead times and supply resilience.

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies using spend analysis, supplier-market intelligence, total cost of ownership and standardization opportunities.
• Lead competitive tenders, commercial evaluations and negotiations for CAPEX projects and MRO requirements in coordination with key site stakeholders.
• Deliver cost savings, cost avoidance, working-capital improvements and value-engineering opportunities while supporting asset reliability and operational uptime.
• Work with a local and global procurement team.
• Ensure sourcing events, purchase commitments and contracts comply with delegated authority, capital approval, legal, ethical, EHS and procurement requirements.
• Identify, qualify and onboard suppliers, including OEMs, distributors, contractors and service providers, to improve competition, capability, lead times and supply resilience.
• Manage supplier relationships and performance through service levels, KPIs, business reviews, corrective actions and continuous improvement plans.
• Maintain sourcing pipelines, project trackers and risk-mitigation plans for critical spares, sole-source equipment, long-lead items and business-continuity requirements.
• Support CAPEX projects from early supplier engagement and quotation through award, delivery, installation, commissioning, warranty and project close-out.
• Support capital planning, maintenance budgets and management reporting with market intelligence, supplier quotations, lead-time information and validated savings assumptions.

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6 month contract with potential to convert full time.Hybrid in Salt Lake City for a leading US manufacturer.

A successful CAPEX And MRO Buyer should have:

• Experience purchasing capital equipment and MRO materials.
• Priority indirect category: CAPEX, with MRO as a desirable category.
• Experience supporting capital projects and maintenance requirements within a complex manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Experience sourcing machinery, engineering services, facilities services, spare parts, maintenance contracts or industrial consumables preferred.
• Degree or equivalent professional qualification in supply chain, procurement, business, engineering or a related discipline preferred.
• Familiarity with AS9100 and ISO 9001.
• Demonstrated negotiation, written and oral communication, influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a matrix organization and apply problem-solving and creative-thinking skills.

Our client is a global manufacturer with a large US presence and HQ in Salt Lake City.

The procurement team are on site 3 days per week.

• 6 month contract with high potential to convert full time.
• Hybrid in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Competitive hourly rate.
• Opportunity to work for one of America's leading manufacturing organizations.