**Job Details****Requirements**:- **Minimum Associate's Degree, Bachelor's Degree preferred. Previous industry experience a plus.**:- **Must have strong customer service & communication skills.**:- **Strong computer skills, particularly with web-based ERP systems, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel**:- **Must be very organized, able to work with strict deadlines, persistent in obtaining desired feedback from third-party vendors**:- **Must be able to communicate effectively with US-based team members to clarify any confusion or ambiguity with each request.**:**Principal Duties**:- **Provides a best-cost analysis and includes supplier quotes when communicating results of each request back to the field organization.**:- **Logs all activity in online reporting system to track all open and completed sourcing requests.**:- **Works with material vendors to register high-value projects and directly negotiates to secure best pricing.**:- **Researches alternate vendors in cases where products are back-ordered or we are unable to secure better pricing from primary vendors.**:- **Will work with business unit and vendors for material price checks and order expedite requests.**:- **Provides continual updates to RPMs and field requestors as to status. Desired completion time for each sourcing event is 48 hours; however, larger projects may have longer lead times.**:- **Maintains continual communication with Manager Procurement Solutions Center located in the US with any issues, challenges, concerns and particularly situations where we are unable to meet the requestors need-by date.**:- **Performs other related tasks as needed.**:Johnson Controls values a diverse and inclusive workplace. Providing this information will help us to ensure our recruitment practices promote equality of opportunity.Your response to the self-identification questionnaire below is voluntary. It is however mandatory to answer the questions, even if you choose not to provide the information.The information will be kept anonymous and your answer will be treated with the strictest confidence and protected from misuse. We assure you that your answers will be used only for the purposes of monitoring our equal opportunities policy and will not be used by us to make any unlawful decisions affecting you, whether in a recruitment exercise or during the course of any employment with us.**You are not obliged to provide this information and you will not suffer any penalty if you choose not to do so.