Sr. Buyer-Indirect Global

What you'll do

• Purchase goods, or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets within stakeholder budgets
• Research and evaluate categories of opportunity and reduce costs where possible.
• Deliver managerial briefs, updates, and reports as and when required.
• Develop creative and innovative procurement processes that align most effectively to the business.
• Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement, including a strategic focus on optimizing tail spend.
• Negotiate contracts, improved prices, and payment terms with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
• Assess and evaluate existing and new suppliers through the management of supplier onboarding and offboarding process, and undertake performance reviews to ensure contract compliance and manage performance improvement activities (SRM)
• Ensure that a professional and consistent approach is taken in relation to all supplier relationships.
• Manage new vendor set up and coding, and assist in on-boarding and off-boarding of vendors
• Support the IGSS team with the current Procure-to-Pay (P2P) project and tasks.
• Administer and manage intake of general inquiries for the Indirect Sourcing team.
• Actively engage with stakeholders to ensure proper training is provided consistently across the P2P/operational remit.
• Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures during supplier negotiations and contracts award process.
• Support/prepare RFx documentation for any new services required for the business and liaise with stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Assess tenders and quotations from potential suppliers and provide recommendations to the business and stakeholders.
• Prepare purchase requisitions (PRs) and purchase orders (POs) in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers and in line with organizational targets and requirements.
• Prepare standard baseline purchase requisitions in which PR notes must be solid, and even reference contracts, dates, GL/cost center details, etc.
• Maintain contact with suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues.
• Assist in developing standards for new products or services, maintains comprehensive descriptions of available products and current prices.
• All other duties as assigned, including but not limited to, supporting development of strategic templates, strategy documents, project charters, executive project summaries & contract summaries, savings documentation, and audits.

What we're looking for

• Minimum five (5) years of sourcing and contracts experience.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required.
• Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing methodology.
• Process rigor related to RFI, RFQ and RFP management preferred.
• Supply Chain certification(s) a plus.
• Manages change, ambiguity, complexity, and drives for optimum results.
• Excellent quantitative, analytical, and project management skills.
• Able to communicate on a global and regional basis using clear and concise oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage complex and/or critical internal and external relationships, strong negotiating, analytical and technical skills.
• Self-confident with an ability to accept and respond to challenges in a positive manner.

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