Sourcing Specialist (Associate, Mid-level, or Senior)

Job Summary

Dominion Energy has an exciting opportunity on our Supply Chain Management team as an Associate Sourcing Specialist, Sourcing Specialist, or Senior Sourcing Specialist, commensurate on selected candidate's knowledge skills and abilities. The selected candidates will be located at our Innsbrrok office in Geln Allen, VA. 

Conducts major spend analysis by supplier, commodity, or service. Identifies potential suppliers. Manages, develops and issues requests for proposal with complex pricing tables.  Analyzes supplier proposals including safety performance. Coordinates legal, insurance, environmental, and credit risk reviews, and performs net present value analysis. Negotiates prices, delivery, insurance, performance, penalties, issue resolution, escalation, terms and conditions, and intellectual property agreements. Handles every step of the procurement process, to include contract administration functions through the completion of the project. Identifies, obtains, and documents cost improvements for purchased materials and services from supplier, through negotiation, innovation, and continuous management. Effectively establishes and manages material and services contracts using data analytics to leverage price, volume, efficiency and automation opportunities. Demonstrates strong focus on identifying & establishing productive business relationships with diverse suppliers. Develops and administers measurement tools on contract basis. Performs trend analysis, and identifies and implements process improvements.  Analyzes all cost and process aspects of assigned spend and commodity.  Analyzes supplier proposals and identifies measurable cost savings and other soft benefits. May lead cross-functional sourcing initiatives, including the development and implementation of complex sourcing strategies.  

For nuclear, demonstrates advanced understanding of nuclear safety-related parts procurement and the requirements and regulations of 10CFR50 APPENDIX B & 10CFR21 APPLICABILITY associated with nuclear parts quality.  Works with other utilities to acquire emergent critical parts required for forced and planned outages.  Resolves issues associated with nuclear corrective actions with ability to compose an acceptable response necessary for close out. Resolves issues associated with nuclear corrective actions with ability to provide a detailed response outlining cause and resolution to avoid future occurrence.  

Expectations require cradle to grave sourcing to include competitive bid facilitation, working with groups such as Legal, Auditing, Corporate Risk, and Tax regarding negotiation of terms and conditions, purchase order award, invoice discrepancies, and supplier management. Provide emergent 24/7 rotating coverage after-hours, weekends, and holidays to support customer needs including outages and emergencies.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

Associate Sourcing Specialist: 0 - 2 years related experience. 

• General knowledge of business and contract law.
• General knowledge of accounting principles and financial analysis.
• General knowledge of materials and services delivery fulfillment processes.
• Good verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Effective influence, persuasion, and negotiation skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Priority management skills.
• Project management skills.
• Computer proficiency.
• Forecasting and trend analysis skills.
• Value and cost analysis skills.
• Ability to apply analytical skills to diverse issues.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Ability to use sound business judgment.
• Ability to anticipate, understand, and respond to customer needs.

Sourcing Specialist: 2+ years related experience. In addition to the above experience, the Sourcing Specialist must also have:  

• Working knowledge of procurement practices, procedures, and policies.
• Working knowledge of business and contract law.
• Working knowledge of accounting principles and financial analysis.
• Knowledge of MRP, ERP, and purchasing and logistics systems and processes.
• Effective human relations skills.
• General experience preferred in procuring contracted services to actively support electric transmission.  
• Construction experience, preferred. 
• SAP experience, preferred. 
• Manage request for proposal and bidding process while establishing relationships with key suppliers to ensure competitive pricing.
   

Senior Sourcing Specialist: 5+ years related experience. In addition to the above experience, the Senior Sourcing Specialist must also have:  

• Working knowledge of procurement practices, procedures, and policies.
• Working knowledge of business and contract law.
• Working knowledge of accounting principles.
• Working knowledge of company systems, processes, and/or interfaces.
• Operational knowledge of supplier relations, priority management, and tactical planning.
• Ability to apply analytical abilities to diverse issues.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Ability to use sound business judgment.

Education Requirements

Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education:

Bachelor

Preferred Disciplines:  Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering

Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above.

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