Roles and responsibilities
General Purpose
The purpose of the Procurement Operations Buyer role is to create purchase orders from approved purchase requisitions to required quality standards while meeting performance metrics in terms of turn around times. Procurement operations buyers are also responsible for the timely resolution of ‘blocked’ invoice issues and other country specific transactional duties.
Main Responsibility Areas
• Raise purchase orders to required quality in a timely manner to achieve turn around time targets
• Ensure orders are raised without assistance of country procurement where possible by proactively driving the creation and maintenance of ‘sourcing plan’ documents.
• Liaise with requestors to drive spend through preferred suppliers
• Liaise with suppliers to collect quotation and other documentation where required.
• Handling blocked invoices in line with corporate targets and amend purchase orders if necessary
• Communicate with team lead and requestors to resolve out of line situations
• Assist related teams within the Operations centre in resolution of queries. Including business controls and the Procurement Contact Centre.
• Perform tactical activities (e.g. Contract management, RFQ etc.) if required
Main Contacts / Clients
Sourcing buyers, Suppliers, requesters, Accounts payable, Management (Direct), Procurement Application & Invoice Support center
Skill set
Apply strong oral and verbal communication skills
Apply collaboration/teaming techniques
Perform in matrix organization
Perform time management
Apply Knowledge of Data Analysis
Apply Knowledge of Business Organization and Processes, Work instructions
Apply Knowledge of Commodity Strategy
Apply Business Control Requirements
Apply customer satisfaction skills
How to Apply
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