Job Purpose and Impact
The Indirect Sourcing Buyer will support country and business sourcing activities. In this role, you will execute complex procurement tasks to provide inputs to the global category Indirect Sourcing team.
Key Accountabilities
- Execute medium and highly complex sourcing events cover all Indirect Sourcing such as Plant Materials & Services (including OPEX & CAPEX purchase activities); Corporate Materials & Services (marketing & commercial events); Plant Ingredients & Chemicals (small portion)
- Drive the implementation of regional sourcing decisions and provide support with the implementation of global sourcing decisions.
- Provide comprehensive understanding of country stakeholder and procurement landscape.
- Monitor continuous regional / country supplier and stakeholder relationships.
- Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of noncontracted materials, goods, services and supplies.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Deliver the organization KPIs / goals strongly
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of two years of related work experience (manufacturing sourcing & procurement)
- Very good English communication skills.
PRIOR BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCES
- Build and apply a comprehensive understanding of local, stakeholder, and procurement landscape.
- Administer transactions associated with obtaining goods and services.
KEY BEHAVIORS
- Build partnerships and collaborate with others to meet shared objectives.
- Apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals.
- Innovation mindset
- Bias to action
- Make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory, information to effectively solve problems.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES TO BE GAINED
- Experience helping manage and coordinate more complex procurement processes.
- Experience with ERP system is preferred (SAP, Ariba)