Senior Procurement Specialist

Join URUS as a Senior Procurement Specialist and play a key role in building a growing, center-led Procurement function. You’ll support sourcing strategies, supplier partnerships, contract and vendor governance, and the development of scalable procurement practices that help the business make faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective decisions.

Job Responsibilities:
 

• Lead and support competitive sourcing events, including RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs, from requirements development through supplier evaluation and award recommendation.

• Triage procurement intake requests, clarify business requirements, establish clear scopes of work, determine appropriate sourcing paths, and guide stakeholders through procurement processes.

• Analyze supplier proposals, pricing models, commercial terms, and total cost impacts to identify negotiation opportunities and support award recommendations.

• Coordinate post-award implementation activities to support stakeholder adoption, issue resolution, savings tracking, and realization of negotiated value.

• Support vendor onboarding and supplier qualification processes, including documentation collection, stakeholder review coordination, risk escalation, and compliance with procurement policy requirements.

• Build and manage supplier relationships, including supplier communications, performance follow-up, pricing records, and issue resolution.

• Support contract lifecycle activities, including review of commercial terms, coordination of approvals, renewal tracking, and alignment with internal procurement standards.

• Gather, clean, validate, and analyze procurement, supplier, contract, spend, and savings data from multiple systems and stakeholders to support sourcing decisions, savings tracking, and executive reporting.

• Track negotiated savings, cost avoidance, implementation status, and realized value, working with Finance, AP, and business owners to validate outcomes.

• Promote procurement best practices and policy compliance, supporting audits, risk identification, stakeholder education, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Identify process gaps and support improvements to procurement tools, templates, workflows, and reporting practices to improve speed, compliance, and user experience.

• Support additional procurement, supplier management, reporting, and process improvement activities as required to meet business needs.

Qualifications:

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret quantitative and qualitative data to support sourcing decisions 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a focus on building relationships and delivering high-quality customer service 

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment 

• Proven problem-solving abilities and adaptability in dynamic, evolving business environments 

• Proficiency in supply chain systems and data tools (e.g., ERP/JDE, TMS, WMS, Power BI, QlikView, Excel) 

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field, plus 5–8+ years of procurement/sourcing experience (certifications like APICS/CSCP preferred) 

• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and willingness to travel occasionally; bilingual skills (e.g., Spanish) are a plus

• Comfortable using AI-enabled tools to improve speed, quality, and consistency in procurement work, including research, document review, proposal analysis, reporting, and process improvement.

As a holding company with cooperative and private ownership, URUS is a family of businesses at the heart of the dairy and beef industry – Alta Genetics, GENEX, Genetics Australia, Leachman Cattle, Jetstream, PEAK, SCCL, Trans Ova Genetics and VAS.  Each organization has its unique identity, products, and services. These companies work globally to provide cutting-edge dairy and beef genetics, customized reproductive services to maximize conceptions, dairy management information to take producers to the frontline of progressive dairy farming, and an array of products and services to help bovines reach their full genetic potential. URUS has 9 brands in 17 retail countries and employs nearly 2,800 people globally.