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Job Purpose and Impact

The Parts & Equipment Buyer will join our North America Plant Material and Services Buying team that obtains goods and services required by the organization. In this role, we seek a professional with general knowledge of industry practices, techniques, and standards to help get products from suppliers to customers. Primary responsibilities include the development, execution, and implementation of category strategies to support the global Equipment Category. These activities include but are not limited to supporting the strategic sourcing process, leading complex sourcing projects, RFX's, negotiations, supplier selection/development and execution of global or regional supply agreements to increase managed spend levels for the category.

• Execute medium and highly complex sourcing events.
• Drive the implementation of regional sourcing decisions and provide support with the implementation of global sourcing decisions.
• Provide inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution.
• Provide comprehensive understanding of regional stakeholder and procurement landscape.
• Monitor the performance of suppliers and lead Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) initiatives to develop/strengthen strategic partnerships with top suppliers.
• Partner with key stakeholders to build/leverage Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models to drive value-based analysis and decision making.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of two years of related work experience.
• Minimum of two years' experience in Strategic Sourcing, Plant Operations/Manufacturing, Maintenance, Engineering, or related work experience.
• Microsoft Office Suite experience, particularly Excel.

• Able/willing to travel up to 10%.
• Ariba experience.
• Project management experience.
• SAP experience.
• GEP experience.

• Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
• This is a hybrid job in either: Wichita, KS / Wayzata, MN / Blair, NE.