Procurement Professional Job Description
Procurement Professional Duties & Responsibilities
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Procurement Professional Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Procurement Professional
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Education for Procurement Professional
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Employers hiring for the procurement professional job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Business/Administration, Education, Engineering, Management, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, Business/Management, Law
Skills for Procurement Professional
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Procurement Professional Examples
Procurement Professional Job Description
- Ensure that Operations Buyers are aware of commodity specific information / instructions through up to date sourcing plans.Main Contacts / Clients Suppliers, Country Procurement Managers, Requestors, Operation/Tactical BuyersScope Participates as individual contributor to team
- Receive, review and track new contracts for processing Statement of Works (SOW), Letter of Intents (LOI), Project Change Requests (PCR), Work Authorizations (WA)
- Ensure rates in the contracts align to the Master Services Agreement (MSA) or SOW rates
- Coordinate Procurement pricing and legal reviews for appropriate contracts
- Build the SOW in the CWM system with all the required information, including milestone payments and ensure it has accurate and up-to-date information
- Chair regular meetings with the business and suppliers for the day to day management of the larger and more complex contracts
- Deep Travel Industry Skill and Marcom Commodity knowledge would be added advantage
- Identifies, develops, and implements broader category sourcing strategies and savings projects for travel and professional services to reduce total delivered cost
- Stays abreast of industry trends for assigned categories
- Directly negotiates or oversees negotiations with key suppliers
- Experienced Buyer with a good understanding and appreciation of software contracts
- Knowledge in one of the Nordic languages is not mandatory, but could be considered as an advantage
- Master/Bachelor's Degree in Law/Business/Management
- Fluent level in English and Polish
- Master/Bachelor's Degree in Law/Business/Management will be considered as advantage
- At least 1 year of experience in Communication and Contract Negotiations
Procurement Professional Job Description
- Lead projects/initiatives that have significant impact upon global business
- Anticipates internal/external business challenges and drives change
- Develop supplier KPI's and management
- Drive value and savings for categories
- Drive Total Cost of Ownership reductions for category
- Partner with business leaders (Manager, Director) to manage and align the category
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with key category vendors counterparts at other Healthcare/Consumer companies
- Develop and implement agreed purchasing strategies for category
- Align design changes or feature changes that impact cost with engineering, product management, and procurement in a timely manner
- Lead development of the Professional Services Category strategy along with business owner(s)
- Fluent level in English and Turkish
- Knowledge in one of the Nordic languages, as Swedish will be considered as an advantage
- Minimum 5 years experience in an engineering or manufacturing or supplier quality management environment
- Familiar with PCBA design, manufacturing, testing and quality management background preferred
- Strong PCBA quality improvement and product qualification background
- Familiar with PCBA industry standards
Procurement Professional Job Description
- Act as a thought leader and participate in strategic planning activities and function as an overall Professional Services change agent
- Analyze key inputs including business needs, volume projections, and market/supply base benchmarks and trends
- Lead the development of negotiation strategies and drive negotiations for key supplier agreements
- Monitor supplier performance, identify cost reduction opportunities, and create competition
- Manage ongoing supplier relationships to ensure responsiveness and partnering behavior
- Work with cross-functional teams to identify, pursue and capture spend related improvements including make/buy decisions
- Monitor Category purchasing spend and ensure compliance with policies and procedures
- Negotiate and manage key supplier relationships
- Select and develop a team of procurement professionals, which may include remote personnel, to ensure procurement goals are effectively and efficiently achieved
- Analyze spend to build should-cost models which form detailed understanding of the supply market and internal business requirements
- Drive strategic actions that improve the overall performance of delivered material quality as measured through Supplier Performance metrics and key process indicators (KPIs)
- Bachelor Degree or above in Engineering or similar discipline, electrochemistry or applied chemistry background preferred
- Experience inin Strategic Supply Management and related technologies including Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Life Cycle Management
- Minimum 2 years experience in an engineering or manufacturing or R&D environment
- Excellent language skills in German/ Italian or Hungarian
- Experience in hands-on use of statistical packages
Procurement Professional Job Description
- Develop close working relationships with the operations and support functions, including site/depot General Managers, and other relevant stakeholders external customers where applicable to better understand their requirements and issues
- Working with suppliers/ stakeholders to deliver products and service specifications that meet our customer needs and enhance the customers perception of the Morrison Brand
- Ensuring Compliance through policy, guidelines, legislation, project governance, Strategic Sourcing Process (SSP) contracting and the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) process
- Improve cash flow through negotiating better payment terms
- Deliver service allowing stores to trade their business and exceed customer expectations
- Responsible initial audit of submitted requisitions to determine that required documentation and supporting procedures have been provided before requisition is routed for financial approval
- Responsible for placing purchase orders of a significant value and importance in response to product requirements established by various departments within the organization
- Give guidance and direction to other Buyers, acting in a lead capacity and responsible for assignment of workload to other buyers
- Negotiates vendor payment terms when necessary
- Provides backup trouble shooting support to users of electronic purchase requisitioning tool
- Experience in optimizing software package
- Handle standard source code escrow agreements and renewals
- Years of business-related experience preferred, , technology, business/data analytics, project management, process improvement, procurement or corporate services
- Drives supplier collaboration and innovation to bring additional value creation to customers, consumers, and internal stakeholders
- Develop and maintain expertise, and provide advice, counsel and services, as requested, on supplier selection and relationships, negotiating, price and availability forecasting, expediting, and other purchasing problems and situations to other purchasing units and internal business groups worldwide
- Lead the development, communication and implementation of Procurement objectives, operating philosophies, business strategies and organizational visions
Procurement Professional Job Description
- Provides troubleshooting and inter-departmental support for Accounts Payable
- Provides full service support throughout requisitioning, procurement, and payment processes (product search, electronic tool support, and AP discrepancy resolution
- Gather information from agreements, catalogs & suppliers to obtain pricing, availability, specifications
- Prepare and maintain on-going management reports and other duties as assigned
- Oversee acceptable supplier performance with stakeholders and the regions
- Work closely with Legal and Stakeholders to develop and execute new contracts or improve existing contracts all of which shall include performance metrics, preferred pay terms
- Oversee the regular, cross-functional review and update of category related policies with key stakeholders
- Procures goods and services, develops proposals and/or negotiates contracts of high risk and complexity consistent with customer requirements
- Develops and/or manages proposals, contracts and/or programs involving highly complex, high risk goods and services
- Works with functional and executive management to ensure early procurement/contracts involvement in developing strategic plans
- Initiate and lead strategic initiatives and projects to support the flawless launch of New Products
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk or hear and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls
- 10-15 years leading global procurement organizations encompassing sourcing, supplier management, supplier quality management and procurement execution
- Demonstrated ability to establish goals and build/enhance a global organization to accomplish
- Minimum 5 years proven purchasing experience in Indirect Sourcing, contract negotiation and supplier management
- Ability to understand and address regional cultural and structural business differences