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Job Description
SME - Procurement Support
At Trojan Technologies, we believe there’s nothing more essential than delivering clean water to the world. That’s especially true in this critical moment, when the world’s supply of clean water is under substantial stress due to industrialization, increasing demand, and rising biological and chemical contamination. Our mission is to stem that tide: to ensure greater water confidence and environmental stewardship for people, industries, and municipalities, improving the lives of over one billion people globally.
As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside customers from municipalities to pharmaceutical and food and beverage companies to build creative, sustainable solutions. You’ll also find a welcoming and supportive team that listens to your ideas and allows you to follow your strengths. All of us feel privileged to work on innovative technologies that bring clean water to the world—we hope you will, too.
Trojan is proud to be one of Danaher's Water Quality companies. Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.
Working within the procurement team, the Subject Matter Expert (SME) will be the global process owner evaluating the “best in class” processes in the area of procurement and implement related improvements to increase the efficiency of the overall procurement process. The SME will be efficient in LN (ERP System) and lead all new integrations, improvements and training in this respect. This position will also provide ongoing procurement specific project support to the team as needed.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
Global process owner responsibilities:
- Ensues process is documented, validated, and sustained
- Negotiates other process conflicts with respective process owners
Global Process Resource responsibilities (SME):
- Documents the process
- Understands the impacts, considerations and relationships between processes
- Works with the project team to implement the process in the LN system
- Performs testing, gap analysis, simulations and validation of the process in the LN system
- Ensures work instructions are complete where applicable
- Communicates with process stakeholders for validation, approvals and change management
Project Responsibilities (Direct Material):
- Supports cross functional sourcing projects
- Ensures alignment of corporate policies and objectives with Purchasing Team
- Analyzes requisition requirements, evaluates bids, and awards contracts to the best qualified suppliers
- Handles and enforces conformance to contract terms
- Participates in and support negotiation of purchases and supplier agreements
- Identifies and implements cost savings and process improvement opportunities through ongoing review of spend categories
- Develops new ways to optimize improve and solve problems in the supply chain as they arise
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 – 5 years experience in Procurement and with formal ERP systems (SAP, LN, BaaN, MIS)
- Post-secondary education in related field preferred
- Knowledge of Lean tools related to Procurement
- Familiarity with e-procurement / e-sourcing applications
- Experience working with product lifecycle management, document control, and enterprise quality management systems
When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.
At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
If you’ve ever wondered what’s within you, there’s no better time to find out.
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