Executive Job Description | Senior Buyer (Indirect)
Information Technology - Computer Software
United States - Texas - Houston - Houston Tx
The Compensation
Benefits - Full
Position Description
Senior level procurement professional with extensive indirect sourcing skills, especially in the Marketing, HR, and Facilities commodities. Candidate must be able to demonstrate high level negotiation and sourcing skills. The Senior Buyer applies application of Supply Chain principles, theories, and concepts to achieve optimal operational results
Key Duties & Responsibilities
-Ensure the specifically assigned spend categories and their related supplier relationships are conducted in a manner complaint with company procurement policies.
-Ensure assigned suppliers/spend categories are effectively sourced in order to deliver the greatest value to the company.
-Verify that price and value analysis supports effective decisioning by the Business Unit and that these and other value determinators are appropriately executed for the sourcing process.
-Provides resolution to an assortment of complex problems
-Ensure effective customer service by proactively identifying customer / enterprise needs and service improvement opportunities.
-Create an understanding of commodities assigned by contributing to gathering market, trend, and price information from key suppliers and other sources.
-Responsible for the Business Unit completing its projects on a timely, comprehensive, and provision of value basis: document these accomplishments via reporting systems, tools, and reports. Identify any gaps, make recommendations to correct such gaps, and with management approval execute corrective measures.
-Develop long-range strategies for Global Procurement, link those strategic plans to the company-wide vision growth plan and prioritize efforts to implement those strategies.
-Gather and analyze data to provide best solution
-Exercises judgment within defined policies and procedures to determine appropriate action
-Evaluates and reports vendor performance
-Applies principles, theories, and concepts that drive results
-Negotiation of pricing, supplier terms and conditions
-Certification and selection of suppliers in partnership with stakeholders
-Manages bid process within specified scope of influence
-Interacts with internal and external senior professionals
-Coordinates BMC intent and expectations with suppliers
-Consistently provide feedback to upper management regarding status of projects, activities and/or initiatives
- Processes Purchase Orders
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