Sr. Procurement Specialist

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. That’s the spirit of the community you’ll find at Orbia: where the purpose to advance life around the world drives our global team of over 23,000 every single day. 

From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for.

Every operation at the St. Gabriel, LA site depends on one thing happening behind the scenes: the right materials, services, and suppliers arriving on time, on budget, and fully compliant. As a Senior Procurement Specialist, you are the person who makes that happen.

You begin your day by aligning priorities with the Procurement Manager, balancing multiple requests across engineering and non-engineering teams. You are not just managing workload, you are acting as a partner, enabler, and facilitator, ensuring internal customers receive value for every dollar spent while supporting the broader business strategy.

As the site’s procurement expert, you work closely with operations, mechanical, and electrical teams to understand their needs and translate them into smart commercial solutions. Whether sourcing engineering materials, spares, raw materials, or services, you lead supplier appraisals, selection, and negotiations for medium-complexity procurements, always securing optimal terms and conditions that meet both technical and commercial requirements.

Your role goes beyond buying. You help implement and continuously improve engineering and non-engineering procurement strategies, processes, procedures, and contractual standards. You support the development of strong, compliant supplier relationships—monitoring performance, driving improvement, and ensuring alignment with company policies, applicable laws, and contract law requirements.

You also play a key role in monitoring and reporting procurement spend, supporting the Procurement Manager with data, insights, and recommendations that improve efficiency and delivery standards across the business. Your ability to analyze spending, work confidently in SAP and Excel, and communicate clearly ensures decisions are informed and impactful.

From time to time, you may provide direct line management to temporary procurement resources, offering guidance and oversight to ensure continuity and quality of service.

Above all, you take ownership of your professional growth. You continuously develop your commercial expertise, influence stakeholders to adopt best-practice procurement approaches, and ensure compliance with agreed strategies and processes. Your success is measured not only by cost savings, but by internal customer satisfaction, supplier performance, and operational reliability.

What You Bring

• Degree in Business Studies
• 5+ years of SAP experience required (S4 and P2P preferred)
• In-depth knowledge of contract law, purchasing terms, and conditions
• Strong expertise in supplier selection strategies and negotiations
• Experience managing suppliers across different geographical regions with varying legal and financial conditions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across functions
• Strong IT capability, including SAP, Microsoft Office, and advanced Excel
• A proactive, organized, and detail-oriented approach to managing competing priorities
• A mindset focused on value creation, compliance, and continuous improvement

How You Work

• Individual contributor aligned with Orbia’s Future-Fit Model
• Driven to deliver results while fostering collaboration and inclusion
• Comfortable supporting multiple stakeholders across site functions
• Committed to acting with integrity, accountability, and commercial discipline

Why This Role Matters

This is a local, on-site role with real influence. Your decisions directly impact cost control, supplier performance, and the day-to-day success of the St. Gabriel operation. If you thrive at the intersection of strategy, execution, and relationships—and want to see the tangible impact of your work, this role puts you right where it counts.

“The compensation for this position will typically range from $79,000 – $129,000/yr. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. The compensation package may also include short and long-term incentive compensation. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes healthcare coverage, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, paid company holidays, paid vacation time, paid sick time, parental leave, short- and long-term disability leave, and an employee assistance program. At Orbia, we are committed to taking care of our employees and believe in providing comprehensive support so you can thrive at work and home.”

If you are excited about this role and your experience and competencies somewhat align with the qualification in the posting, we encourage you to apply. Everywhere you are, you bring your unique skills, talents and perspective to moving your career, the company, people and the planet forward. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles! 

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what working at Orbia is all about.

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