Senior Buyer - Boise, United States - FrieslandCampina

Description

• University or college degree in Supply Chain or Procurement or Business Administration
• 2-3 years of experience in the field of Sourcing, preferably in a multinational company or shared service center
• Excellent proficiency in English
• Dutch or any additional European language skill is an advantage
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Excellent coordination, time management and prioritization
• Ability to balance operational and strategic tasks
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Strong time management, prioritization skills
• Strong customer service skills
• Attention to details

• Opportunity to bring in your ideas for contribute to a fairly new Service Centre
• Challenging tasks with real added value
• Brand new office with an entertainment unit
• Cheerful environment with colleagues from different cultures

• Sourcing of purchase requisitions based on Procurement policy and sourcing guidelines and ICF framework
• Negotiates with suppliers on pricing and terms within defined framework agreements.
• Processes Indirect Materials & Services purchasing requests in Smartbuy/Ariba/Coupa/SAP PtP system
• Supports the resolution of invoice mismatches on price
• Changes the Purchase Order if required
• Acts as first line of support on PtP systems (Smartbuy/Ariba/Coupa) related questions via phone and e-mail.
• Makes sure systems are kept clean and data is consistent
• Acts as SPOC for stakeholders
• Delivers end user trainings on systems and processes
• Acts as coach for Buyers in the team on hard skills for Sourcing
• Backs up the team lead in his/her absence.
• Ensure proper workload distribution in the team
• Acts as first point of escalation for team's scope
• Participates in/leads process optimization projects
• Implements improvement initiative
• Participates in transition projects (system and scope), acting as key user or change owner
• Provides support in migration projects to ensure smooth transition of activities to the Procurement Shared Service Centre, including trainings for new joiners and new business requesters.
• Contributes to the development of procurement processes for the Sourcing department by providing input to the Team Lead Sourcing.
• Identifies bottle necks in (work) processes, provides proposals on improvement opportunities, participate in improvement initiatives and tracks progress