Buyer II

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Support migration of Indirect Procurement processes from other Global countries to Alabang and prepare Indirect Procurement related process documentation (process maps and work instructions)
• Become a Subject Matter Expert for Indirect Procurement related topics
• Handle and resolve escalated procurement processing issues
• Answer and resolve suppliers, stakeholders and AP queries to ensure timely resolution 
• Maintain supplier master data information in relevant systems
• Ensure proper processing of PR’s and PO’s
• Perform compliance checks 
• Expedite POs 
• Answer tickets (Procurement Helpdesk)
• Manage invoice pricing issues
• Create, maintain Info Record & source lists
• Spot Buy / Requisition Based Sourcing
• Execute all procurement activities in-scope
• Prepare and process eRFQ’s
• Smaller Contract (value/complexity) negotiation & execution 
• Execution of Projects assigned by Commodity Management 
• Desk Research and Price Comparison
• Supplier training on tools
• End-user Trainings
• Savings reporting
• Maintain communication with suppliers, stakeholders and other Indirect Procurement members
• Execute periodically PR/PO audit queries or upon request KPI’s measurements
• Ensure compliance with applicable company policies 
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the function, ensuring that improvements are incorporated in the work routine
• Support robust compliance environment with applicable policies, procedures and processes
• Build relationship with key stakeholders including suppliers
• Support local BU owners, Function representatives or other Procurement team members to solve issues in a timely manner,
• Build strong relationship with key stakeholders,
• Attend team meetings and trainings as required.

Requirements:

• Good Experience in Indirect Procurement (5+ years)
• Previous experience in shared service environment
• Good of MS office; very good Excel and other relevant tools for the function
• SAP PR2, S/4
• Good communication skills 
• Very good English language skills in speech and writing + additional language on top of Filipino
• preferred (Chinese, Spanish, German, French, etc.)
• Diversified Industrial Products/Manufacturing industry experience preferred
• Good command of other languages is a very important asset