Full-Time
Senior Buyer
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Vistra
Mid, Senior
Painesville, OH, USA
Category
Procurement & Sourcing
Operations & Logistics
Requirements
- 3 years of relevant procurement/contracting experience (Power plant experience is preferred - can be included as relevant experience)
- Understanding and awareness of sourcing, contract management, and the importance of managing suppliers to drive compliance and performance
- Basic awareness of financial concepts and terminology, category management principles and the associated benefits of category strategies
- Solid understanding of the sourcing process; ability to lead a lower complexity sourcing event from identifying potential suppliers, through bid, negotiation and award, recognizing diverse supplier opportunities where possible
- Ability to effectively understand and conduct basic negotiations and recognize when escalation is necessary for resolution
- Practitioner with demonstrated ability process and manage purchase orders, support eCommerce transactions, and effectively manage issues and stakeholders to guarantee policy, process and contract compliance
- Understanding of legal risks and practical effects of contract terms and conditions; ability to negotiate red lines of common commercial terms, and recognize when incremental contract language is necessary to manage risk
- Demonstrated awareness of the importance of project management process
- Ability to effectively interact with internal and external stakeholders, providing a high level of customer service while supporting departmental goals and the corporate vision, mission and strategy
- Aptitude to mentor peers or other personnel on procurement processes, policies and practices
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to above skills and experience
Responsibilities
- Leading and supporting sourcing activities across all spend categories
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and category teams to gather business and technical requirements (statement of work) to facilitate the sourcing process
- Conduct market analysis to select suppliers based upon business value and need
- Support and promote Vistra’s Supplier Diversity program through outreach and supplier development activities
- Collaborates with key stakeholders as primary site contact for category teams
- Conduct supplier negotiations, including negotiation of commercial and legal terms
- Draft and author Contracts and Master Service Agreements (MSA’s) to support the purchase of goods and services
- Manage contract documents on an on-going basis including expirations, renewals, statement of work (SOW) revisions, change orders, and amendments
- Process purchase requests and issue purchase orders within Vistra’s procure-to-pay platform(s)
- Track timeliness of at-power and outage related purchase requests and ensure updated status reporting to site and company reporting
- Drive for cost savings in the process and optimization of spend for Purchase Orders
- Drive for invoice timely payment and work with work groups to ensure funding of future Purchase Orders
- Communicate effectively with suppliers using expediting skills as needed to ensure timely delivery of goods and services
- Ensure contractors performing high risk services are pre-qualified and compliant with safety and insurance requirements
- Work with other work groups (Engineering, Warehouse, Maintenance etc.) within procurement process to provide efficient, accurate and timely procurements
- Resolve or escalate any vendor disputes or issues as necessary
Desired Qualifications
- Power plant experience is preferred - can be included as relevant experience
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