Position Summary

The procurement specialist owns the daily performance management of their assigned portfolio of suppliers to ensure necessary flow of purchased material to meet agreed upon customer service levels.

This ITAR-restrictred position is restricted to US Citizens, Permanent Residents or Green Card Holders.

Responsibilities

        Manages all interactions and activities related to planning, inventory, delivery, kanban and lead time to facility delivery of quality material on time.

        Effective communication and management of suppliers to meet or exceed defined supplier delivery goals.

        Maintain all procurement related master data (info records, source lists, material master fields) to support correct MRP planning and 100 first pass yield of purchase orders (PO’s).

        Hold suppliers accountable for their promised deliveries and activities to support production planning.

        Leading monthly (at a minimum) meetings to discuss forecast, open purchase order report, quality, and any other areas that may impact on time supplier delivery.

        Utilize business tools such as SAP and PH Connect to perform job responsibilities.

        Perform activities to ensure delivery of quality product to the warehouse to support customer demands. This includes, but is not limited to, product change notices (PCN’s), discrepancy notices (DR’s), supplier requests (SR’s), frozen planning and follow up of late material in inspection.

        Demonstrate sufficient level of initiative to meet or exceed performance against key performance indicators (KPI’s) such as supplier delivery, inventory, MRP exceptions, and demonstrate initiative to continuously improve performance against these KPI’s.

        Minimal travel is required but expected as needed. 

Qualifications

   Required:

• Leadership, innovation, collaboration, customer focus and accountability per Parker LORD Core Competencies.
• Cooperation – willingness to accept assignments and assist others while maintaining of positive work attitude.
• Dependability – good attendance and punctuality are required. Follow work rules and procedures. Completes work assignments and daily tasks on time and correctly with very limited direct supervision.
• Versatility – performs a variety of job tasks and assignments to ensure on time delivery of quality product to the warehouse.
• Initiative – puts forth individual effort to perform job expectations at an acceptable level or above.
• Decision making – ability to make effective decisions, considering risk and benefit, within job authority.
• Expert level understanding and application of SAP MM functionality.
• 3-5 years’ experience in operations, supply chain, purchasing, or other related function
• Prior SAP experience, preferably in the MM module
• MRP/ERP knowledge
• Bachelor’s degree
• Formal SAP training

Preferred:

• Supply Chain experience
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or other related field
• Certification from professional supply chain or purchasing organizations (APICS, ISM, etc.)

Conditions of Employment

This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or parkerhannifin.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.  However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)

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Drug Tests

Drug-Free WorkplaceIn accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.