Global Procurement Senior Associate

Catalogues

• Analyze item list with catalogue data provided to generate new catalogues

• Act as point person for supplier on technical catalogue related queries
• Provide guidance to procurement managers / buyers on catalogue strategies
• Analyze transaction list with reporting analyist to generate new catalogues
• Assure the maintainance of e-catalogues for assigned categories of products/ services
• Assure the analysis of the item list with catalogue data provided by supplier
• Assure the catalogue friendly guide is updated
• Accomplish catalogue SLA´s (e.g. response to users within agreed business days)
• Catalogue management team is responsible for updating electronic buying portal, i.e. upload new catalogs into P2P system as approved and validate completeness/correctness of the upload
• Coordinates with GP, vendors, IT and Ariba the implementation of punch-out catalogues
• Supports Catalog usage improvement activities

Category CardsCategory card is a document containing batch of rules which have to be followed by the POC during the entire procurement process.  Category card contains a long description, all specific policies, suppliers and also the responsible requestors, who are able to purchase within the particular category.

• Assure unique, strategic and global suppliers list are reflected properly in myBUY Category Cards
• Maintain category cards for assigned categories of products/services
• Assure the user´s searching guide tool is updated
• Control suppliers enabled on myBUY system and Category Cards are aligned with SLAs
• Accomplish Category Cards SLA´s:  e.g. response to users within agreed business days
• Identify / Validate requested Category card updates and provide all required information to the owner/approver of the Category card for approval
• Provide quality check of Category Card ticket update requests and transfer/process into Category Card Enablement Tool

Compliance

• Make sure to keep on date the owners of our different processes and be aware in case a new process should be created/ modified

• Good interpersonal skills (needs to be able to build relationships over the phone without meeting suppliers /  customers on a regular basis)
• Ability to analyze data and understand the processes
• Good IT procurement skills. PC (Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Ideally with a Procurement or finance/analytical background
• Good English level (Very good written and spoken)
• ERP (SAP / ARIBA) experience
• University Degree.