Procurement Specialist / Buyer

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Education Essential & Preferred: Any Graduate.

Total Experience Required: 3 - 5 years

Job Description

• Contribute actively to the Indirect Procurement team in implementing standard procurement processes, procedures, policies and tools
• Work directly with internal customers in India, APAC and North America regions to understand requirements, align with global/local Procurement strategies and perform all purchasing activities efficiently
• Organize and share information to ensure that business units are aligned with global/local Indirect Procurement strategy
• Assess, review and organize purchase requisition (PR)
• For each procurement project, develop a tactical plan for project execution, including clearly defined accountabilities of procurement and extended team members from stakeholder groups
• Conduct benchmarking and overall market assessment to support the development of the procurement strategy, aligned with customer’s requirements and in compliance with global / local Indirect Procurement strategies
• Advise internal customers on procurement issues, providing support and guidance at all stages of the procurement cycle
• Support new vendor creation request, like collection of documents
• Execute the awarding procedures such as contracting, requisitions and purchase orders
• Handle any queries related to requisition and purchase order status
• Update trackers as required for the assigned tasks
• Follow up with supplier for timely delivery/rejection/shortage, accounts for supplier payment/reconcile etc.
• Generate procurement reports from source systems in MS Excel, PowerPoint e.g. purchase order tracking, spend report, savings dashboards etc. Identify and highlight gaps, if any on such reports
  
  
  

Job Specific Skills

• Knowledge on Indirect Procurement preferably having worked on IT / Telecom category in a fast-paced multinational organization supporting North America, APAC and India regions.
• Expertise in sourcing indirect materials and services, developing new vendor, follow up for on time delivery, cost control/cost effective purchasing, prepare MIS, comparative and approval sheet, procurement terms & conditions, negotiation etc.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct RFPs and source quotes from various channels based on various requirements or bill of materials (BOM)
• Basic understanding on source-to-pay process and contracting terms & conditions.
• Working knowledge of Procurement tools.
• Proficient in MS Office tools
• Ability to develop and maintain stakeholder and vendor relationships
  
  
  

Soft Skills

• Should be self-driven and proactive
• Must have analytical skills, be a good team player and approachable.
• Good communication and negotiation skills.
  
  
  

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