The Senior Buyer is responsible for providing operational purchasing support for indirect spend in accordance with service level agreements and policy thresholds, using the local language of the supported country as required. The role involves verifying purchase requisitions, determining the best source of supply through sourcing or bidding activities, placing purchase orders, and ensuring compliance with contractual agreements and approved terms and conditions. It also includes expediting orders, coordinating vendor master data, monitoring and closing open or inactive orders, keeping stakeholders informed of order status, identifying nonvalue-added activities to support a hands-free environment, and contributing to the achievement of organizational objectives through timely and accurate delivery of results.
What You'll Do
- You process purchasing requests and allocate them to suppliers within required service level agreements, following established policies, SOPs, and SWIs across designated procurement commodities.
- You ensure compliance with company spend policy.
- You ensure products and services are assigned UNSPSC codes in alignment with regional and global requirements.
- You complete first-line issue resolution by engaging stakeholders and suppliers, and escalate to identified groups when necessary.
- You lead collaboration with customers (monthly or bi-weekly) on operational issues and metrics.
- You analyze requisitions as part of the sourcing process.
- You enforce preferred supplier compliance strategy.
- You source according to commodity-driven supplier lists.
- You obtain the best price, delivery, and terms for non-contracted items.
- You contribute to savings and cost avoidance objectives through negotiations and effective use of procurement tools to reduce materials and services costs.
- You complete order follow-up tasks, including purchase order acknowledgements, order monitoring and close-out, blocked invoice resolution, and non-fulfilled orders.
- You coordinate catalog information in the SRM system.
- You direct shopping carts to frame contracts and catalogs where available.
- You identify repetitive buys as candidates for catalogs and share sourcing recommendations with the Category Manager.
- You monitor recurring transactional spend to reduce total costs.
- You contact the e-catalog enabler to include items in the appropriate catalog when applicable.
- You notify internal users when items are available in the catalog.
- You identify cost savings projects and opportunities, and lead implementation with supervision.
- You conduct trainings on the Transactional Procurement process.
- You initiate efforts to develop, update, and review documentation and standard operating procedures for your processes.
- You prepare metrics reports for your processes.
What We're Looking For
- You must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in Finance/Accountancy/Business or any related major.
- You have 4-6 years of experience in Procurement (sourcing, evaluating bids, proven ability to correctly translate and process customer requests)
- Preferably, you must have negotiation experience, International Logistics expertise, Supplier Management with foreign incoterms, and experience working in multinational companies.
- You are required to have the ability to speak, write, and read in Thai.
- You possess stakeholder management experience, especially in the Thailand market.
- You must have previous experience with SAP-ERP, SRM, CRM, or a comparable system
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- You have the ability to follow procedures and sequential processes
- You must have critical thinking skills to analyze/review orders and drive process efficiencies
- You are a team player and have strong interpersonal skills
- You have proven ability to work on your own initiative.
- You are amenable to report onsite 2x a week in BGC, Taguig City.
