Вакансія Senior Buyer

Our client, international agrarian company is announcing an opening

Position: Senior Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the local sourcing strategy execution

• Identify and communicate opportunities in the local market, in close alignment with the internal stakeholders
• Perform local bids, analysis, negotiations and conclude contracts in the region across categories
• Lead local internal and supplier relationships
• Manage and develop the day to day business relationship with local suppliers (initiation, follow-up, issue resolution etc.), to ensure continuity of goods and services that meet the expected quality, services and price
• Act as a facilitator and ambassador for Procurement among the local and regional cross-functional stakeholders, developing the relationships to implement the category strategy locally and achieve the goals set
• Ensure visibility in local market opportunities
• Develop a strong understanding and knowledge of local suppliers and regulation
• Lead the generation of knowledge about the local market
• Drive and be the guardians of compliance and process efficiency
• Work with stakeholders to implement and enforce the policies to guarantee and track spend visibility and compliance, whilst minimising transactional costs
• Assist in the tracking of KPIs
• Execute administrative tasks as part of the P2P process in a compliant way, cooperating with the Back Office as relevant

Main requirements:

• Successful experience in procurement of an international company
• Fluent English
• The candidate by preference would have a technical background/experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of the source to pay process (S2P)
• Supplier Management and contract negotiations at local level
• Internal stakeholder Management at country level
• Broad experience with running (inter)national tenders, and contracting process
• Ability to manage the entire order to payment process
• Experienceв PC user (SAP, MS Office)
• Able to forge internal customer and external supplier relationships
• Takes initiative and constantly seeks to increase the added value of procurement (lower cost, better supplier service, supply base consolidation, etc.)
• Service Oriented, strong communicative skills, result oriented