Job Description

Location: PH - Philippines - A5R0
Goodyear Talent Acquisition Representative: Katherine Grace Ramos Bello
Sponsorship Available: No
Relocation Assistance Available: No Job Responsibilities

• Process purchasing requests and appropriately allocate to suppliers within required service level agreements, in accordance with established policies, SOP's/SWI's, across designated procurement commodities.
• Ensure compliance to company spend policy.
• Ensure products/services are correctly mapped using Global Product Heirarchy codes
• Complete first-line issue resolution by engaging stakeholders and suppliers, and escalate to identified groups when necessary.
• Lead collaboration w/ customers (monthly or bi-weekly) on operational issues and metrics
• Manage sourcing process by:
  • Analyzing requisitions
  • Enforcing preferred supplier compliance strategy
  • Sourcing according to commodity-driven supplier list
  • Obtaining best price, delivery, and terms for non-contracted items.
  • Contributing to savings and cost avoidance objectives through negotiations and effective use of procurement tools to reduce materials and services costs
• Complete order follow-up tasks including purchase order ackowledgements, order monitoring and close-out, blocked invoice resolution, and non-fulfilled orders
• Coordination of catalog information in SRM system for indirect spend.
• Direct purchase requisition/shopping carts to frame contracts and catalogs where available.
• Identify repetitive buys as candidate for catalogs/contracts and shares sourcing recommendations with category team. Monitor recurring transactional spend to reduce total amount. Contacts e-catalog enabler to include item in an appropriate catalog when applicable. Notify internal users that the item is now available in catalog
• Identify cost savings projects/opportunities and lead implementation with supervision
• Conduct buying trainings in Procurement process
• Initiate effort to develop, update, and review documentations and standard operating procedures of own process
• Prepare metrics report of own process

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or above in business or technical related major
• Required: Experience in procurement minimum 18 months (evaluating bids, proven ability to correctly translate and process customer requests)
• Desired: Negotiation experience, International logistics expertise, Supplier management with foreign incoterms, experience working in multinational companies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and second langage depending on cluster
• Ability to follow procedures and sequential processes;
• Critical thinking skills to analyze/ review orders and drive process efficiencies
• Team player and strong interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to work on own initiative
• Diligent – ensure deadlines are met and priorities are balanced accordingly

Goodyear is one of the world’s largest tire companies. It employs about 72,000 people and manufactures its products in 57 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.