Procurement Specialist

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Job Title: Global Procurement Specialist / Senior Buyer

Location: Charlotte, NC / West Des Moines, IA (Hybrid)

Duration: 12+ months

GLOBAL PROCUREMENT / SENIOR BUYER

Profile to Hunt: Hands-on Senior Buyer / Procurement Specialist / P2P Analyst who has personally executed purchasing transactions in SAP Ariba Buying & Invoicing .

MANDATORY

• 3+ years of hands-on Purchasing/Procurement experience

• SAP Ariba Buying & Invoicing – strongest requirement

• Creating/processing Purchase Requisitions (PRs)

• Purchase Order creation/processing/modifications

• Strong understanding of Procure-to-Pay (P2P): PR → PO → Invoice → Payment

• Experience resolving purchasing/transaction issues

• Strong attention to detail, communication and problem-solving

STRONG PLUS / FLEX

• Financial Services/Banking procurement

• HR procurement

• Learning & Development procurement

• IT Software/Hardware procurement

• Experience working across Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Enablement, Third-Party, AP and Tax

• Other enterprise procurement/P2P systems

Ideal profile: Senior Buyer + Ariba Buying & Invoicing + PR/PO execution + end-to-end P2P + strong troubleshooting/problem solving.

Responsibilities:

• Function: Global Procurement/purchasing.
• Heavy focus on executing purchase orders .
• Strong experience with Ariba , particularly Ariba Buying & Invoicing .
• Must understand purchasing/procurement processes and the full Procure-to-Pay (P2P) lifecycle .
• Steve described the underlying work as fairly straightforward procurement work — not highly technical. xhqgsiq
• The group previously used Operational Accountant 2 for similar work, but Steve was trying to get the roles titled/scoped more appropriately , which is also why pricing/discount levels were still being worked through.

Focus: Procurement + Purchasing + Purchase Orders + Ariba Buying & Invoicing + P2P.