Purchasing Buyer: Capex & Services

Major Accountability:

• Create, execute, maintain, and continually improve upon commodity strategies for the commodities assigned; focused on current and future alignment of technology requirements, and achieving objectives in terms of total cost, lead-time, quality, risk mitigation, and overall supply chain effectiveness. Leads the development of these strategies in coordination with global colleagues and other functional areas.
• Lead the evaluation and selection of new suppliers, development of existing suppliers, and overall supplier management
• Develop competitive negotiations to drive cost reduction initiatives with the Indirect supply base, while meeting service and quality requirements
• Manage supplier contracts and long-term agreements with preferred suppliers to ensure that market trends, supplier performance, and future business needs are aligned
• Drafts and submits annual budget proposal for Capex & Services SEAJ. Updates budget on a monthly basis and tracks performance against projections.  Make modifications based on changes in economics, raw materials, volumes, etc. and investigate and explain budget variances.

Responsibilities:

• This role involves material & Services related to all Capex /Revenue /Logistics expenses.
• Service contracting related to Facilities Management and office services (Housekeeping, Courier, Utilities, Marketing related material (brochure printing, Corporate Gifts etc.), IT Consumables like Printer Cartridges / Spares/Hard disc, Office & Printing Stationary, Pantry Consumables etc.
• Logistic contracting includes outbound / inbound & Warehousing contracting services 
• RFQ and RFI: management and execution according to service requirements defined by the Business, this include verification of Purchase authorization, Preparation of RFQ, Supplier identification, RFQ placement, negotiation with suppliers & recommendation, Vendor Registration, PO Processing  and Approval from Management, dispatch of PO to vendor, Follow up with suppliers and contractors, Daily/ Weekly / Monthly MIS preparation etc.
• Be the key reference for internal stakeholders (Commercial Department, Finance, Transport Logistics, Manufacturing, After Market Solutions), with daily interactions.
• Budget: definition & follow up, individuation and implementation of saving/cost avoidance initiatives
• Logistic analysis: to support the central department in ad hoc logistic studies for production footprint changes or for specific distribution analysis
• Ensure compliance to the Company’s business principles, policies, standards and procurement policies
• Escalation reference for all issues with contractual providers
• Drive price productivity, contract management, Supplier consolidation, supplier relationship management.