Roles and Responsibilities:
- The Procurement Buyer - Team Lead reports on dayshift and directly manages his/her subordinates.
- Manages day to day operations of the Procurement department by leading the team of associates, including process/policy compliance, troubleshooting and first-line problem solving. Completes first-line issue resolution by engaging stakeholders and suppliers, and escalating to category team when necessary.
- Completes transactional buying and appropriately allocates to suppliers within required service level agreement. Manages sourcing process by analyzing requisitions, enforcing preferred supplier compliance strategy, sourcing to potential suppliers according to commodity-driven supplier list, completing free-text requests, and obtaining best price, delivery, and terms for non-contracted items.
- Ensures compliance to company spend policy and established playbook. Conduct daily activities within SLA for the purchasing & procurement of requisitioned parts, indirect supplies & services, in accordance with established policies, SOP's and SWI's, across designated procurement commodities.
- Completes open order follow-up tasks including purchase order acknowledgements, blocked invoice resolution, and non-fulfilled order inquiries.
Experiences:
- 3-5 years of previous sourcing experience, transactional & tactical procurement experience
- Raw material purchasing and contracting experience desired
- Previous experience with SAP-ERP, SRM, CRM or comparable system
- Previous experience with Outlook email or comparable email tool
- Customer service experience; able to correctly translate and process customer requests
- Previous experience leading a team preferred
Knowledge & Skills :
- Critical thinking skills to analyze/review orders and drive process efficiencies
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Diligent – ensure deadlines are met and priorities are balanced accordingly
- Ability to handle multiple priorities within established timeframes
- Strong analytical & problem solving skills; Team player
- Proven ability to work on own initiative
- Working knowledge of SAP-ERP, SAP SRM & CRM or comparable system
- Ability to follow procedures and sequential processes
- Strong interpersonal skills; Customer-oriented
- Project management skills.