Professional Buyer (259727) at Siemens

Job description

What are the responsibilities of this position?

• Prepares and concludes sourcing contracts based on customer requirements at the most beneficial conditions whilst ensuring quality and on-time delivery. Focus on business-specific Procurement.
• Implements Commodity strategies to ensure long-term, cost-efficient supply of materials.
• Contributes to implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g. compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems).
• Create a basis for deciding the optimum sourcing strategy and cooperate with the best suppliers
• Prepares and conducts negotiations to obtain highest feasible savings.
• Generates, documents and implements savings to contribute to the success of the business and make results transparent.
• Define and implement Procurement strategies (which are not covered by Commodity strategies) based on conducted demand, market and supplier analysis to ensure long-term, cost-efficient and reliable on-time supply of materials in the required quality
• Executes Supplier Management processes (e.g. qualification, selection, evaluation, development, classification), update supplier evaluation systems to obtain and develop the best suppliers and ensure transparency
• Ensures a close cooperation with Internal Customers (requisitioners) to ensure customer care and early involvement.
• Provides supplier information to the project and conducts project-specific supplier evaluations (project evaluations).
• Purchase Order Creation, in SAP and expediting

What do I need to qualify?

• Matric / Grade 12 or Equivalent
• Diploma or Degree in the relevant field (Procurement, Supply Chain Management)
• 3 - 8 years experience as a professional buyer within the Engineering industry.
• Good communication skills
• Good relationship building skills.