Procurement Senior Cover Letter

Please consider me for the procurement senior opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for leadership team guidance on expense management, productivity, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and capital planning.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience using SAP Enterprise Software
• Impeccable communication (written & verbal) skills, stakeholder management and contracts management skills will be critical to the success of these role(s)
• Requires previous experience of working on an ERP platform (preferable Oracle Order Management)
• Excellent leadership skills including clearly demonstrated global perspective and understanding of factors impacting businesses and their suppliers
• Procurement experience with a major engineering and construction firm or industrial supplier, excellent written and oral communication skills, and demonstrated proficiency in utilizing procurement management information systems preferred
• Majors in Supply Chain, Business or Finance preferred
• Strong planning and organising to manage multiple priorities and ensure project protocols are respected at all times
• High attention to detail which informs a challenge of data, information and decisions

I would like to submit my application for the procurement senior opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for guidance and develop annual operating expense targets partnering closely with Sales leadership throughout the planning cycle.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Provide benchmarks in relevant organization
• Coordinate KPI governance activities in own procurement organization for all target groups and manage reporting activities
• Measure, structure and analyze key KPIs, quarterly spend data, purchase obligations for Procurement and Finance, Material Cost reduction programs, Inventory reduction plan, Supplier panel metrics and Supplier reduction reporting
• Prepare and analyze different reports, establish dashboards, deliver reports to procurement management team
• Subject Matter Expert/Key User role in own procurement organization
• Asses application of tools and processes, drive improvement actions, maintain procurement tools
• Drive Procurement to Excellence follow-up activities
• Troubleshooting in Procurement or SPM/SQA related situations, catalyst to escalate weaknesses

Please consider me for the procurement senior opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for communication updates in regard to expense-related processes – annual budgeting, forecasting, expense inquiries.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Comfortable with Sourcing systems (ideally Ariba) spreadsheets, presentations and project management
• Excellent communicator at all levels and able to build and manage relationships with business partners across various teams
• Proactive, conscientious and high level of attention to detail
• Procurement accreditation
• Demonstrated successful performance in role of similar scope and breadth
• Direct experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Navision or others
• Previous management experience that includes leading successful teams and talent development
• Use of PBP and LSC tools

I am excited to be applying for the position of procurement senior. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for support in the areas of financial planning, analysis, budgeting and forecasting as well as providing expense control analysis across the entire corporation.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Provide overall leadership and direction for procurement activities worldwide
• Establish and drive the end to end sourcing processes for engaging a new vendor, creating a new engagement for an existing vendor or renewing an existing agreement or engagement
• Act as a change agent by working with the Business Unit leadership teams to identify, recommend and implement transformational sourcing models based on business needs
• Establish strong partnerships across the business units and corporate centers to ensure active and early participation in vendor related matters as needed
• Personally lead and negotiate key strategic sourcing initiatives, serving as a primary liaison between the Finance, IT and Legal departments units and other key stakeholders in the contract negotiation process and acting as the single point of contact for strategic vendor contract activities
• Develop relationship management strategies by which vendors are evaluated, selected and managed in accordance with established guidelines and best practices (RFI/RFP, Scorecards, Performance Metrics, escalation/response processes)
• Solid reporting experience and the use of metrics and benchmarking to measure results
• Research industry trends and key market information for continuous improvement, delivering consulting/advisory services to provide subject matter expertise and benchmarking

I would like to submit my application for the procurement senior opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for reports and analysis for Accounting management and business unit teams regarding inventory purchases and freight expense / allowances.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Proven track record of working with multiple stakeholders
• Willingness to travel to support implementation and process improvement within delivery locations
• Supplier Negotiations, Relationship Management and Contracting
• Knowledge of advanced procurement analytics and tools (e.g., cost modeling, price regression analysis, scenario planning)
• Lead category management teams
• Support internal collaboration, knowledge sharing, compliance with best practices and established category management process
• Support negotiations of strategic contracts
• Monitor procurement performance against strategic goals