Buyer - Procurement Department

The position is responsible to deliver operational procurement services to NIQ legal entities by ensuring effective and efficient performance of operational procure-to-pay processes (source to pay as future option) and tasks supported by procurement systems (SAP Ariba) and in accordance with agreed SLAs with the business. In addition the position should be highly focused on operational excellence and process standardization while raising continuous improvement initiatives and supports projects (processes and operational savings).

Operational Procurement:

• Is accountable for the operational procurement processes of the procurement organization from purchase requisitions (PRs) to order confirmation.
• Checks purchase requisitions for completeness of specifications according to pre-defined compliance and quality criteria.
• Clarifies differences between purchase orders (POs) delivered quantities and invoices in close cooperation with Procurement and Finance departments and amends/ changes to purchase order data in the system if necessary.
• Conducts suppliers communication and sends required documents as part of the procurement process.
• Ensures compliance to Procurement Guideline along mandatory tools and in accordance with internal approval guidelines.
• Processes requests for creation and continuous maintenance of new or change of existing supplier master data.
• Acts as first level of support for business stakeholders for any queries related to the end-to-end Purchase-To-Pay process.
• Executes various Procurement reports and is able to analyze data draw insights and take corrective actions or generate improvement ideas from the data.
• Supports key areas of the wider Source-To-Pay process when needed contracting and tendering supplier enablement development of buying channels and system related content (catalogues internal forms etc.)
• Supports Procurement projects or non-operational tasks and activities as and when required and in accordance with strategic priorities.

~ Extensive operational purchasing skills 3 years
Strong computer skills and proficient use of Excel Word and PowerPoint

~ Language skills necessary to complete the role proficiency in English.

Flexible working environment
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