As a buyer, you will have responsibility over the execution of activities to support efficient planning and procurement of materials. Your main activity will be processing and expediting Purchase Orders to procure the goods, materials, components and services required to sustain our operations.​ You will be executing the strategies developed by the category managers, assisting them and working closely together to learn from their experience to drive your development.

Responsibilities

Execute procurement category strategies to support business objectives

- Create and process purchase orders

- Purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with SOW

- Coordinate with category managers and cross-functionally to communicate issues related to parts availability, inventory level set ups, packaging, logistics, and others

- Ensure parts are expedited on critical orders and delivered on time

- Effectively manage process orders for several categories

- Negotiate cost reductions based on quote analysis and benchmarking

- Evaluate supplier options in alignment with price, quality and service requirements

- Work with Receiving and AP to resolve supplier invoicing and payment discrepancies

- Support the collection of supplier, market, and Category information

- Support tracking and documentation of risk and issue management for the category

- Generate reports from ERP systems for analysis to support management decisions

- Track supplier performance

- Support implementation of risk mitigation, cost reduction, and inventory management plans

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Business, Engineering (Preferred), Supply Chain) 

• Languages: Spanish & English (proficient)

• Great communication skills

• High Negotiation skills

• Management of complexity (high number of suppliers and components)

• High resilience and tolerance to frustration 

• 3-5 years of experience in Procurement Area (Indirect Purchasing desirable)

• Advanced written and verbal communication skills

• Understanding the applied practice, concepts and process in one or more procurement fields (e.g., category management, contract negotiation, policies and procedures, project management)

• Experience with Ariba P2P and S2C

• Swift decision making

• Used to work under pressure

• Advanced analytical thinking and decision-making skills

• Strategic vision across multiple skill-teams to make effective recommendations

• Advanced planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships

• Ability to influence key stakeholders