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Associate Buyer

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Job ID 222625 Date posted 08/01/2022 Location : Mexico City, Mexico

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Job Purpose and Impact

The Buyer I, will handle basic country or multicounty sourcing routine activities. In this role, you will coordinate and execute low to medium complex procurement requirements to provide inputs to the global category team.

Key Accountabilities

  • Execute medium complex requests for sourcing process.
  • Drive implementation of local sourcing decisions and support local implementation of regional or global sourcing decisions.
  • Provide local inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution.
  • Build and apply a comprehensive understanding of local, stakeholder and procurement landscape.
  • Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of non contracted materials, goods, services and supplies.
  • Administer transactions associated with obtaining goods and services.
  • Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Proficiency in English

Preferred

  • Familiar with Business Analytics Tools (GEP), Ariba eSourcing and Contracts, Ariba Procure to X, SAP, PowerBI.
  • Demonstrated experience and knowledge of procurement systems, P2P Processes, and purchasing strategies.
  • Experience leading multi-functional teams of sourcing, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop and execute category and capital sourcing projects
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