Buyer, IT Digital Service Procurement

About The Role

As buyer responsible for sourcing & purchasing and expediting of services in assigned categories according to category strategy
Identify and pursue cost saving opportunities utilizing excellent negotiation skills, analyzing of market trends and selecting appropriate suppliers with category manager
Follow up and perform operational procurement tasks within source to contract as well as purchase to pay including PO creation in SAP

How You Will Do It

Sourcing for indirect procurement

• Handle open PRs of assigned categories with defined thresholds, to do sourcing activity
• Initiate bidding process via electronic bidding tool, negotiate with supplier on all commercial items such as competitive price, payment term, etc…
• Focus on negotiation performance in all sourcing activities according to set negotiation targets and targeting to reduce cost and source at best possible prices for our iBPs
• Process handling for Down-payment, Paper contracts & Outline agreements (OA)
• Look for synergy capture and for optimization of buying channel usage together with category buyer and the iBP to increase purchasing efficiency

Purchase to Pay

• Perform P2P activities for purchase orders in respective categories
• Monitor open PR list
• Generate PO in SAP for POs without value limits
• Generate and maintain OA in SAP
• Create reports for open PR and PR to PO conversion in respective categories

EHS and Responsible Care

To implement the company's EHS standard, Business Partner Due Dilligence, and Responsible Care scheme during day-to-day work with external service providers

What We Look For

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Procurement, Business Administration, Supply Chain or any related discpline
• 3-5 years of work experience in related categories in Indirect Procurement
• Solid IT skills for procurement tools (e.g. SAP R/3 Cobalt, SAP Business Warehouse, Strategic Procurement Suite, etc)
• Good in English and Chinese
• Good command of MS Office is a must, e.g. Excel, Powerpoint, Word
• Solid negotiation skills and passion with procurement
• Solid Knowledge of supplier, market environment, products/services and technologies within respective area
• Solid Knowledge on purchasing strategies, processes and guidelines is required.

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