The Role
The Buyer will process purchase requisitions and orders, communicate with suppliers, handle invoice processing, and manage master data. Responsibilities also include supporting sourcing activities and ensuring compliance with purchasing processes.
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Responsibilities / Tasks
- Responsible for processing purchase requisitions, purchase orders & following-up on order confirmations (with expediting if needed)
- Clarifies issues with requestors and suppliers
- Provides feedback to Strategic buyer/Category manager when spotting requisitions going outside of suitable framework agreements
1st point of contact with vendors for daily operations:
- Communicates with suppliers on demand, volume and delivery times, reduction of transaction cost
- Onboard the supplier when it comes to purchasing processes
Invoice Processing:
- Based on the entity setup, may support solving invoice mismatches that couldn‘t be processed by Finance/Accenture
Sourcing:
- Based on the entity setup, can be responsible for tactical sourcing activities (e.g. low value purchase) for which the thresholds have been agreed with strategic buyers and/or category managers.
- Based on the entity setup, can be responsible for low-spend contracting with vendors limited to general T&C or simplified agreements within scope of category strategy
Manage Master data:
- Based on the entity setup, may maintain local raw material or vendor master data such as price lists, payment terms, lead times, supplier item codes, taxonomy etc.
Your Profile / Qualifications
- Business education in combination with experience in strategic procurement.
- ERP / Procurement key user experiences / knowledge
- Work experience in complex organizations
- Negotiation experience welcomed
- Cost analysis
- Exposure to manufacturing/service operations
- English (fluent)
- Financial and Business understanding
- Analytical capabilities
- Ability to work in matrix organization
- Takes ownership of the work, successes and mistakes
- Good communication skills
- Fixed term contract (1 year)
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The Company
What We Do
GEA is one of the largest technology suppliers for food processing and a wide range of other industries. The global group specializes in machinery, plants, as well as process technology and components.
GEA provides sustainable solutions for sophisticated production processes in diverse end-user markets and offers a comprehensive service portfolio