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As North America Junior Import Analyst you will be a member of the Global Procurement team. This is a global position instrumental in supporting the procurement agreements and transactional work for sites in North America. This position has numerous varied and complex tasks which must be handled efficiently and effectively to ensure that client, supplier, and buyer needs are met and is the primary interface regarding all matters related to inquiries, purchase orders, invoicing, purchasing documents and any other client service-related items in the handling of Procurement transactional work.
Your key responsibilities:
- Responsible for preparing, negotiating, managing, and coordinating agreements supporting the procurement of various materials and services.
- Buyer of record with execution authority
- Points of negotiation may include, but not limited to - terms and conditions, lump sums, labor rates, mark-ups, and terms of payment
- Create white paper agreements.
- Analyze orders to ensure correct T’s & C’s are used for the work being performed. As buyer of record, may engage Legal on T’s & C’s during the negotiation process with suppliers
- Monitor agreements to ensure that they do not expire. Upon expiration, make the decision and/or work with the buyer to address whether the agreement will be extended, canceled, or recreated.
- Serve as a resource to new buyers regarding S&L policies and procedures.
- After negotiations are complete by buyer, independently lead and handle all end-to-end processes. This includes setting up agreements appropriately, ensuring the correct T’s & C’s were used by buyer and raising questions/concerns if any found, obtaining authorizations, executing the agreement by getting appropriate signatures, and implementing agreements.
- Collaborate with supply chain and/or contract administrators to ensure agreements are implemented at the site level.
- Serve as key contact to handle day-to-day needs of the sites and suppliers, as well as use discretionary judgment to resolve issues that may arise in the absence of the buyer.
- Respond to critical delivery issues and use judgment to resolve issues in a prompt manner.
- Resolve supply, and invoicing issues with suppliers. Interface with both internal clients and external suppliers to resolve issues without leadership direction.
- Initiate, develop, facilitate and/or implement process improvements specific to service centers, commodities, and/or site procurement processes.
- Create standard operating procedures and training documents.
- Participate on global teams to drive standardization across global service centers.
- Participate in ISO 9001 internal and external audits
- Drive to improve KPI performance
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related field is preferred
- Strong customer service skills, be client focused and possess very strong interpersonal skills to deal effectively with the varying tasks and demands in this role.
- Strong communication skills, embraces and adapts to change, flexible and has a positive attitude.
- English skills required
- Strong computer (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook) capability and procurement systems (SAP) experience.
- Skilled at standardizing and simplifying processes to enable consistency in work practices across the center.
- Strong organizational skills to manage the heavy workload in this position.
- Experience in more than one buy category.
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