Senior Procurement Buyer

Responsibilities

• Identifies and drives saving opportunities, consumption reduction and value engineering projects through negotiations.
• Conducts eAuctions for goods and services, ensuring best value offering to business.
• Revisits agreed terms with existing suppliers to improve productivity and working capital.
• She / He implements new deals and identifies new saving opportunities.
• Developing and implementing the Annual Operating Plan together with the Business and the Commodity Strategic Team
• Create and apply strategically the Category Cards for the supported sites/countries.
• Drives BAE execution in strong collaboration with the business partner and the other stakeholders.
• Engages in stakeholder & requisitioner communication aiming to improve understanding of indirect procurement processes and tools.
• Supports implementation of automation opportunities for the assigned sites.
• Maintains a strong collaboration with the Procurement Operations Buyer to ensure common target achievement.
• The Sourcing Buyer will ensure all tasks are carried out in line with indirect procurement policy and strategy.
• Covers more than 4 sites with a high degree of complexity, with cumulative annual addressable spend of more than $5M and delivers savings of more than 7% of that spend in scope.
• On an ad hoc basis, can be asked to run sourcing projects with spend of more than $250K if there is alignment with the Strategic Category Teams and buyer s proximity to site & stakeholders make sense for this to happen

Qualifications

• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Self motivated and capable to work with tight deadlines
• Good organizational skills with an ability to prioritize
• Problem Solving skills
• Technical knowledge of Procurement/sourcing
• Planning, negotiations, and agreements/contract management
• Proficiency of English and another language is a plus
• Minimum 4 years experience in a purchasing/procurement environment
• Proven track record of running and managing competitive selection processes (RFP, RFQ, eAuctions)
• Microsoft Office skills