Global Procurement Buyer - Oakland, United States - eTeam

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    Description

    Duties:
    Review and approve new Purchase Requisition submissions through the Procure-to-Pay platform (OracleCloud).

    Monitor and manage all requisitions and purchase orders throughout the PR/PO lifecycle including business partner outreach, updating ownership, change orders and closing POs.

    Identify and report non-compliant Purchase Requisitions by following internal policies and procedures.
    Provide guidance, training, and education on the Procurement policy and process for business partners (i.e. How to Create Purchase Requisitions, Understanding of Procurement Compliance, and Commercial Contracts).

    Focus on day-to-day operational effectiveness by ensuring timely responses are provided to cross functional stakeholders and drive issues to resolution.

    Assist with monitoring, triaging, and resolving tickets within the Procurement help desk.
    Support other ad hoc projects as assigned.
    Initial training will be provided during PST timezone hours (9am - 5pm PST).
    100% Remote work


    Skills:
    Focused experience on indirect procurement categories (Professional Services, Marketing, Workplace Operations, SaaS, etc). - Must Have Multilingual (desired) (e.g. Cantonese/Mandarin, Spanish, and/or French). Main language of business is English.
    Understanding of Source to Contract, Procure to Pay (P2P), and PR/PO lifecycles.

    - Must Have Experience with reading/understanding commercial contracts - Must have Strong communications skills (written & verbal) - Must Have Experience with P2P systems, Purchase Requisition Modules (OracleCloud preferred), JIRA, Client, Contract Repositories, and ticketing systems a plus.

    - Must Have Experience working with various Finance and Business Systems.

    Experience training and mentoring business partners on Procurement processes, strong communication skills, effective problem solving, planning and ability to maintain strong cross functional relationships.

    Experienced and excellent track record with providing quality customer service - leading stakeholders through a process, complex workflows or situations, and more.

    Capacity to multitask
    Proactive, solution-oriented, and accountable
    Ability to navigate through ambiguity