**Position Summary** As a Senior Procurement Specialist, you will be responsible for overseeing and executing purchasing of goods and services for the company, ensuring adherence to established timelines, quality, and cost targets. In this pivotal role, you will ensure procurement activities are aligned with established timelines, quality standards, and cost objectives. Acting as the primary liaison between the LATAM region and senior procurement leadership, you will spearhead strategic initiatives, address operational challenges, and foster seamless collaboration across teams. This role requires a person with excellent agility in using procurement systems, ERP, and digital tools to efficiently manage order processing, result driven, excellent communication/relations with suppliers, and internal coordination with other departments. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities** + Proactively maintain schedules for all open in-bound shipments and establish group vigilance practices on open orders. + Create, review, and track purchase orders in the ERP system, ensuring accurate and timely information. + Efficiently use the company's procurement systems and ERPs to manage the entire procurement cycle, from request for quotations to the receipt of goods. + Develop deep knowledge of key market trends by researching market drivers, analyzing cost structures, understanding technical improvements in industry, and evaluating the competitive landscape. + Leverage Direct spend opportunities across BU’s and regions. + Oversee cost saving projects and opportunities. + Effectively collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure business and technical requirements are captured and facilitate cross functional evaluation of new suppliers. + Prepare and deliver executive level business updates on strategic sourcing plans that highlight progress toward business objectives and changes in market dynamics. + Support requests from partner Finance departments. + Support Manager in reporting KPIs and following up on improvements implementation. + Work closely with Site teams to manage supplier related disruptions to timely receipt of goods and services. **Education & Experience:** **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Industrial Engineering, International Trade, or related fields. **Experience:** 5 or more years of experience in procurement, supply chain, logistics, or similar roles required. **Knowledge, Skills, & Talents** + Proficiency in technology tools, such as ERP systems (such as SAP, Oracle, D365, Epicor, IVALUA, etc.), Microsoft Excel, and e-procurement platforms. + Experience in order processing. + Ability to analyze procurement data, identify areas for improvement, and propose efficient solutions. + Teamwork skills and the ability to collaborate with different areas of the company. + Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic environment. + Excellent verbal and written communication skills. + English (C1 minimum) **Equal Employment Opportunity** Vantage is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected category. **About Vantage** Vantage provides natural solutions to our customers’ technical performance and marketing needs through a unique combination of chemistry, application expertise and service. Underpinned by our broad portfolio of formulations, ingredients and actives that are built on a backbone of sustainable oils, fats and their derivatives, Vantage targets selected markets and applications including personal care, food, surface treatment, agriculture, pharma, and consumer and industrial performance. Vantage is headquartered in Deerfield, IL., operates in 11 countries worldwide and employs more than 1,000 talented professionals focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences with every interaction. We are a dynamic people-centered organization where you’ll be part of a collaborative global team. Embracing our cultural diversity, we learn from each other to constantly improve, adapt and iterate. We value the voices and talents of our colleagues, empowering them to drive their unique ideas to completion. We’re convinced that exceptionally motivated employees produce outstanding results and we celebrate them by fostering a culture of recognition, development, learning, excellence and shared achievement. Most importantly, we know you’re going to like it here. For more information visit: vantagegrp.com or LinkedIn/vantage. Vantage is a leading supplier of naturally derived specialty ingredients and formulations that cater to the evolving needs of industrial and consumer markets. Through our chemistries, our customer focus and our global footprint, we are Enabling Tomorrow's Solutions Today. As a company on the move, you’ll be working as part of a collaborative team and getting to know the cultural diversity of our world. We learn from each other to constantly improve, adapt and iterate. We value the voice and talent of our colleagues by empowering them to drive their unique ideas to completion. We’re convinced that exceptionally motivated employees produce outstanding results. Most importantly, we know you’re going to like it here.