Procurement Specialist - Labor

Role: Procurement Specialist – Labor

Job Type: Fulltime

Location: Plymouth, MN

Responsibilities:

·         The Procurement Specialist- Labor team is responsible for the development of vetting, negotiating, selecting and assigning 3rd party labor partners to projects

·         The goal of this position is to provide both internal and external customers with the best quality pricing and timely installation of projects while minimizing costs

·         Identify and vet additional regional and national 3rd party lighting installers that meet all required licenses and insurance standards

·         Develop and maintain relationships with labor partners

·         Negotiate with 3rd party labor partners and improve pricing/costs of labor partners to ensure optimal margin results and profitability

·         Participate in labor partner program by providing input in performance measures, accountability, utilization, incentives, and best practices

·         Manage escalated issues related to labor partner execution

·         Create and maintain Intent to Bid documents (ITBs)

·         Create POs from awarded labor

·         Accountable for data entry and maintaining Salesforce & Oracle

·         Creation of Request for Quote packages for Labor Partners including SOW, RFQs, Spec Sheets, etc

·         Manage the filing and storage of the RFQ packages

·         Maintain labor data in Smartsheets

·         Gather data and present at yearly Labor Partner Summit

·         Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

·         Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills

·         Expertise in presenting and communicating with labor partners

·         Strong negotiation skills

·         Strong problem-solving, financial management and analytical skills

·         Proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel used for tracking and analysis

·         Ability to take direction from multiple people, prioritize work and meet deadlines with limited supervision

·         Able to work well in a team environment as well as individually

·         Detail-orientated, high degree of accuracy and ability to multi-task

·         Labor Partner procurement and negotiations

·         Workload planning for labor partners

·         The employee must occasionally lift or move office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds

·         10% travel, with some overnights required

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