Roles & Responsibilities
- Demonstrate strong skills to drive procurement strategies to achieve best in class delivery, quality, cost, and compliance in country to align to business outcome
- Drives procurement process on suppliers’ framework (identification, research, evaluation, selection, management) and management of supplier database including strategic suppliers
- Drives Spend Analysis and ensures clear Spend Reporting by reclassifying vendor spend to the proper taxonomy.
- Responsible for facilitating RFP Enablement with Category Managers, this includes working with the data team to extract data for the RFP, data crunching, coordinating/following up with vendors, receiving quotes & facilitating bid analysis/scenario modeling to accelerate decision making for RFPs.
- Generates financial/savings reporting using our preferred tool (Wave).
- Ensure compliance with internal purchasing procedures and policies
- Effectively develops tools, processes and reports to communicate, analyze and make effective recommendations in key areas of responsibility
- Handles daily procurement transactions that involve the end-to-end procure-to-pay process, including but not limited to new supplier approval, vendor master maintenance, PO execution, delivery of goods and services and three-way matching of invoice/PO/delivery note
- Implement category strategies and associated actions to achieve cost reduction goals, including PO-to-PO (Purchasing Order) reductions and rebates
- Perform supplier spend analysis including spend patterns by category/region and supplier
- Assists in effectively resolving PTP issues with our Vendors.