Job Description

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Customer Focused Leadership:

• Maintains close working relationships and provides professional advice and assistance to local customers.

Execution:

• Ensuring quality of purchasing process, pricing accuracy, purchase orders, payment terms and check requests.
• Verifying purchase requests accuracy, completion, and approvals.
• Ensuring products and services are obtained at a budgeted price.
• Develops, completes and as required, initiates and manages RFQ/ RFP/SOW process.
• Manages contract review process with LRM Team or others as required.
• Participate local and regional compliance audit activities as needed.
• Addressing inquiries and resolving transactional supplier issues.
• Assists with the set up, data input and maintenance of on-line catalogs and supplier database.
• Managing supplier qualification/RFx processes, assessing and validating the capabilities of potential vendors as appropriate.

Optimising Team Performance:

• Provides local and regional support when working with Procurement Associate, Senior Procurement Specialist or Category & Sourcing Manager.
• Assist, as required, in the development of contract strategy, sourcing strategy, quality management, supplier selection, resolving supplier performance related issues and improvement of procurement processes.

Stakeholder Management:

• Leverages procurement and other internal resources to meet customer requirements.

Delivering Process Efficiencies:

• Provide user support in relation to department responsibilities such as; Commodity research, supplier selection, supplier evaluation, contract administration, RFP, bid evaluation and internal resource coordination.

Supplier Management:

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  Supplier management responsibilities regularly and proactively reviews terms to ensure optimum benefits are secured and monitors supplier performance and adherence to contract terms.

Qualifications : Skills:

• Sound knowledge of procurement principles, theories, concepts and processes.
• Ability to develop solutions to procurement problems and provide quality and/or creative solutions.
• Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills.
• Oracle R12 PO/AP/iProcurement modules
• Microsoft office
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
• Good negotiation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional business teams.
• Able to meet goals and deadlines.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience working within a Procurement environment at a local/ regional or Global level
• Exposure to operations and/or life sciences is an advantage
• 1 - 3+ years of relevant business/management experience is desirable
• Oracle experience in a global environment is beneficial
• Prior project management experience is an advantage

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably business related or equivalent experience.