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First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. Basic Job Functions: Facilitate procurement for global, cross-functional teams for resulting in procurement decisions delivering the highest quality, reliability, and value to meet First Solar requirements. Develop strong business relationships and strategic alliances to support First Solar's growth plan. Education/Experience: BS/BBA degree plus 2 years of experience in a related business field Understanding of operational purchasing processes, concepts, and negotiations Familiarity with RFI, RFQ and RFPs Manufacturing experience in a fast-paced environment is preferred. Must be a detail-oriented self-starter that can develop and execute strategic plans, timelines, and negotiations. Required Skills/Competencies: Decision Making: Evalulate the overall goals of the organization and establish strategies to accomplish. Participates with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives. Support existing contract management as well as new supplier contracts Select, evaluate, and develop category plan objectives in areas of technology, quality, cost, flexibility, and service with guidance and assistance. Execute prioritized tasks consistent with achieving overall supply management organizational goals. Implement sourcing decisions based on guidance and team consensus to weighted scorecard. Problem Solving: Assess, define, and resolve supply chain and procurement issues, with appropriate urgency. Apply root cause analysis and derive corrective actions and assess adequacy of the analyses and plans proposed by suppliers. Review appropriate competitive cost benchmarks, financial analysis, and risk management techniques to solve issues. Ability to influence peers and internal customers to achieve mutually beneficial solutions. Project Management: Understands and demonstrates basic project management skills. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects at the same time, and to meet deadlines. Effectively manage relationships and peer deliverables to successful project completion Interaction: Must be a confident and effective communicator, including oral, written and presentation preparation. Interaction requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, communicating commercial information concerning specific projects or schedules. Routine interaction with managers, directors or VP levels of suppliers managed. Builds deep industry relationships and category subject matter expertise. Negotiation: Performs market and cost analysis Issues RFIs/RFQs/RFPs Develops negotiation plan with some supervision Conducts negotiation within approved negotiation parameters and authority Documents commercial terms and drafts contract agreements and amendments Collaborates with legal to ensure contract terms are acceptable Utilize formal benchmarking methods to determine best in class processes and drive improvement Essential Responsibilities: Follows processes and operational policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Develops and administers project plan schedules and performance requirements. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and policies to determine appropriate action. Act as global supply management leader for assigned categories. Willingness to work outside of regular business hours to support global needs. Develop and implement global sourcing with specific negotiation strategies to achieve cost, supply assurance and risk mitigation objectives. Support and lead commercial negotiations with managed supply partners. Coordinate aggregation of all sites demand for supplier forecasting and leveraging for cost reduction. Proactively manage supplier base ensuring supply with no adverse