Title:  Lead, Procurement

Job Title: Lead, Procurement

Job Code: 20253

Job Location: Lynchburg, VA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Public Safety and Professional Communications (PSPC) sector has an availability for a Procurement Lead to join the team. 

The Procurement Lead will be responsible for the issuance of purchase orders as required by our ERP system.  In addition, this position is responsible for the individual management of suppliers to ensure excellent performance including high quality materials delivered on-time.  The Lead, Procurement will also create and drive improved material productivity through savings projects they are assigned or that they create. 

Essential Functions:

• Manage the issuance of purchase orders as recommended by the planning system or as requested by management
• Manage PO approval process, PO revisions, supplier confirmation and maintenance of all purchase orders
• Manages supplier bidding process with creation of RFQs submission to suppliers and summary returned information as requested
• Controls Suppliers compliance to on time delivery, terms and conditions, supply contracts and product specifications
• Drive sourcing solutions for existing products as directed by executive management
• Responsible for communication flow between suppliers and A/P to ensure timely and accurate payments to suppliers
• Manage supplier quality issues including return material authorization, cause and corrective action documentation and supplier credits
• Support implementation of cost savings projects
• Manage parameters in the planning system to ensure accurate purchasing resulting actions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's with 9 years prior experience, Graduate Degree with 7 years prior experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with supplier scorecards and/or KPIs
• Experience on process improvement initiatives
• Experience with electronic commodities