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East Kentucky Power Cooperative · 2 days ago

Sourcing Agent

Winchester, KY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

East Kentucky Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric utility dedicated to providing reliable and sustainable energy to its members. The Sourcing Agent will manage sourcing requirements for materials and services, lead supplier management, and ensure compliance with contracts while optimizing cost savings and service excellence.

Electrical DistributionEnergySustainability

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional teams through sourcing process. Conduct spend analysis, needs assessment, benchmarking and business case development. Identify potential cost savings, spend reduction, supplier consolidation and standardization opportunities. Recommend category sourcing strategies. Lead supplier selection and recommendation activities including: qualitative and quantitative analysis, selection criteria, long and short lists, RFI and RFP development and analysis. Lead development and execution of negotiation strategies. Work with Legal and Risk Management to identify and mitigate contract risks

Maintain industry and market trend knowledge through research and networking. Consider environmental impact of sourcing decisions. Create commodity specific sourcing strategies to optimize the supply base, diversity spending and total cost of ownership. Achieve category savings. Develop and manage supplier scorecards and supporting programs. Address and resolve issues

Build and sustain business partnerships with internal clients. Maintain a customer focus through communication and understanding the line of business needs. Improve client understanding and commitment to the Supply Chain Policy and industry best practices. Work with subject matter specialists to gather and assess business requirements. Monitor and maximize customer satisfaction using standardized reporting metrics. Achieve customer satisfaction targets including due date compliance

Administer all aspects of assigned contracts, categories, and commodities. This includes but is not limited to negotiating commercial terms, monitoring and managing supplier performance, contract releases, change orders / field work directives, and assist with the development of Board Resolutions required for the approval of projects, award of contracts, as well as related amendments and closeouts

Ensure that schedules are adhered to and continually monitors projects as to time requirements and completion dates

Follow Supply Chain strategic sourcing requirements and fully utilizes work management tools and proper system functionality

Maintains all pertinent information qualified suppliers and researches the market for competitive solutions as well as cost drivers and material costs

Qualify new and existing suppliers as requires

Assist with supplier management and related process improvement including on-time delivery, reporting, reviews, etc

Manage and perform contract releases for assigned categories and reduce contract lead time through automation methods including analyzing high volume transactions and converting to catalog transactions

Typically handle transactional sourcing requirements

Assist in the development of annual budgets

Guide project staff and advise senior managers on contractual issues based on knowledge of contractual documentation

Address and resolve all related issues including but not limited to supplier performance, invoice resolution, business unit integration, process recommendations, etc

Utilize technology, especially ERP Sourcing tools, to optimize work process

Perform other duties and projects as assigned by management

Qualification

Strategic sourcingSupplier managementContract negotiationPeopleSoftCPSM certificationBuilding Customer LoyaltyManaging WorkTechnical KnowledgeCommunicationNegotiation