Procurement Specialist

The Procurement Specialist is responsible for sourcing and procuring assigned direct materials, components, commodities, and supplier services supporting the Hillsboro operation. The role leads sourcing activities, supplier negotiations, commercial analysis, supplier qualification, contract coordination, cost-reduction initiatives, supply-risk mitigation, supplier performance management, and procurement compliance activities. The Procurement Specialist is expected to independently manage complex commercial and supplier matters while remaining aligned with category strategies, contracting requirements, procurement policies, and business objectives. The successful candidate will combine strategic sourcing capability with the urgency and practical judgment required to resolve operational procurement and supplier issues, take ownership of assigned responsibilities, lead matters to closure, and deliver measurable improvements in cost, supplier performance, supply continuity, compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Location & Working Arrangement: Hillsboro, NH - Hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

Key Responsibilities Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Selection

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for assigned direct materials, components, commodities, and supplier services.
• Conduct supplier scouting and market research to identify suppliers that meet technical, commercial, quality, capacity, compliance, and supply-continuity requirements.
• Evaluate suppliers based on total cost, quality, service, technical capability, capacity, operational risk, geographic footprint, compliance, and long-term strategic fit.

Supplier Negotiations and Commercial Management

• Lead supplier negotiations in alignment with Category Procurement, Commodity Business Management, Contract Management, and Hillsboro Procurement Leadership.
• Negotiate pricing, productivity commitments, payment terms, lead times, capacity arrangements, tooling agreements, warranty expectations, and other commercial conditions.
• Develop negotiation strategies using supplier quotations, cost structures, market conditions, competitive benchmarks, historical performance, demand expectations, and total-cost analysis.
• Challenge supplier cost, lead-time, quality, capacity, and risk assumptions using objective commercial and operational information.

Contract Management

• Lead commercial negotiations while coordinating contract language and formal contract execution with Contract Management, Legal, Category Procurement, Commodity Business Management, and other authorized stakeholders.
• Review proposed agreements to understand commercial commitments, risks, responsibilities, and potential liabilities.
• Provide procurement and commercial input for the creation, amendment, renewal, and termination of supplier agreements.
• Monitor supplier compliance with contractual and commercial obligations and support timely renewal, amendment, or corrective action.

Cost Management and Productivity

• Identify, develop, negotiate, implement, and report procurement cost-reduction and productivity opportunities.
• Support annual procurement savings, productivity, purchase-price, and contribution-to-net-income objectives.
• Conduct supplier cost analysis, quotation analysis, cost-driver reviews, competitive bidding, benchmarking, and total-cost-of-ownership evaluations.
• Provide regular reporting on sourcing actions, commercial results, risks, and cost-reduction progress.

Supplier Performance and Operational Support

• Monitor supplier performance in delivery, quality, responsiveness, commercial competitiveness, capacity, service, and corrective-action effectiveness.
• Respond with urgency to material shortages, capacity constraints, quality concerns, delivery failures, commercial disputes, and other supply interruptions.
• Identify supply-chain vulnerabilities and develop risk-mitigation, alternate-source, capacity, inventory, or continuity plans as appropriate.

Procurement Audits and Compliance

• Support and, when assigned, lead procurement audits and audit-preparation activities.
• Support supplier audits, including commercial preparation, documentation review, site-assessment participation, findings, and corrective-action follow-up.
• Verify supplier declarations, certificates, sourcing records, commercial approvals, and other required documentation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of procurement procedures, controls, templates, documentation, and audit readiness.

Cross-Functional and Global Collaboration

• Work effectively with Category Procurement, Commodity Business Management, Contract Management, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Planning, Finance, and supplier partners.
• Operate effectively within a global and matrixed organization and build constructive relationships with regional and global procurement colleagues.
• Present complex procurement and supplier matters in a structured, concise, and decision-oriented manner.

Project and Workload Management

• Manage multiple concurrent sourcing, supplier, commercial, audit, and operational initiatives.
• Establish project plans, responsibilities, milestones, risks, and follow-up actions for assigned procurement activities.
• Provide timely updates to Hillsboro Procurement Leadership and affected stakeholders and drive agreed actions to resolution.

Who we are looking for

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Procurement, Engineering, or a related field (preferred)
• Relevant professional working experience in lieu of education

Qualifications

• 3+ years of progressively responsible procurement, sourcing, supplier management, commodity management, or related purchasing experience
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment (preferred)
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong commercial judgment, negotiation capability, analytical ability, organization, and problem solving
• Demonstrated experience managing suppliers, commercial performance, sourcing activities, and procurement-related risks.
• Ability to prepare and deliver senior-management-level presentations.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and perform effectively under pressure, while working independently

Please contact Joanely Ivette Mortimer for further information via [email protected]