Conducting local/overseas sourcing of In-direct materials in terms of quality, price, terms, deliveries and services with vendors, focused on Indirect material: Marketing, Corporate Services, Capax machines and maintenance, IT services, etc.
•Drives continuously cost savings year over year through leveraging of spend, value engineering, supplier process improvement, supplier value added service, etc.
•Ensuring appropriate local sourcing processes take place according to purchasing policies and procedures. - Negotiate purchasing/tooling agreements and NDA in accordance with policies, procedures, and approval authority.
•Evaluating supplier performance data and driving improvements at local level. - Reviewing and creating new vendors in the system.
•Working with other functional areas to streamline and improve processes and ensure internal stakeholders are trained on procurement policies and processes.
•Ensuring proper order/transactional execution, data entry and follow-up reporting.
•Participating in special projects to support procurement and regional procurement process improvement goals (e.g., Procurement IT platform; internal benchmarking for best practices across affiliates, etc.).
•Performing purchasing administrative & reporting requirements.
•Executing and monitoring all routine purchasing duties and supporting the overall purchasing and business strategy.