Job Description
Pay Rate: $36 - $40/Hour
Duties:
- Review and approve Purchase Requisitions (PRs) and Change Order submissions through the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System (OracleCloud).
- Monitor and manage all PRs and Purchase Orders (POs) throughout the PR/PO Lifecycle
- Thoroughly understand end-to-end Procurement process and related policies in order to provide guidance and education to internal stakeholders.
- Understand the division of roles and responsibilities amongst each Procurement vertical and cross-functional team in order to direct internal customers to the appropriate resources.
- Ability to read, understand, and interpret the commercial terms within supplier agreements.
- Perform routing PO maintenance activities, including transfer of PR/PO ownership and closure of expired POs.
- Identify and record non-compliant Purchasing activities as defined by internal policies and procedures.
- Provide a high level of quality customer service to internal and external stakeholders.
- Respond to internal customers and cross-functional partners in a timely manner and drive open issues toward resolution in accordance with SLAs.
- Assist with monitoring, triaging, and resolving tickets within the Procurement Help Desk.
- Analyze business processes, systems, and data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Compile reporting from various systems, validate accuracy, analyze data, and summarize for presentation to stakeholders
- Develop, publish, and circulate detailed internal resource guides to document process steps, changes, and improvements.
- Work with IT teams to translate purchasing requirements into technical specifications.
- Support other ad-hoc projects as assigned.
- Monitor project progress and performance against established goals.
Skills:
- Focused experience on indirect procurement categories (Professional Services, Marketing, Workplace Operations, SaaS, etc).
- Ability to navigate through ambiguity and make sound decisions based on documented processes, policies, and best practices.
- Proficiently navigate Source to Pay (S2P) process, especially PR/PO Lifecycles.
- Experience with Procurement systems (OracleCloud preferred), JIRA, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools.
- Familiarity with Financial and Accounting Coding as it applies to Purchase Orders.
- Effective critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- Ability to cultivate and maintain mutually beneficial cross functional relationships.
- Have an excellent track record with providing quality customer service, including guiding stakeholders through complex process workflows or situations.
- Ability to forecast Procurement requirements and set expectations with stakeholders.
- Capacity to multitask and manage time effectively.
- Strong communications skills (written & verbal).
- Proactive, solution-oriented, and accountable.
- Multilingual is a plus (Cantonese/Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian).
Education:
Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of indirect procurement analyst/buyer experience.
Job Tags
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