Senior Associate - Sourcing and Procurement

Responsibilities

• Review suppliers to be added to the supplier master database for duplication and gathering relevant data
• Receive approval for supplier to be added, modified or deleted from the database per Client's policy
• Capture the supplier set-up, maintenance, and adding and/or deletions and/or update notes in the system's audit trail
• Upon receipt of new supplier request, provide the requesting Client stakeholder with list of questions needed for supplier certification and approval
• Communicate with supplier to coordinate initial upload and updates, as needed, of financial information to be entered by the supplier through self-service supplier portal
• Coordinate with Client upon receipt of new supplier request to confirm that adding new supplier is aligned with category strategy
• Process requests to cleanse and edit existing supplier data
• Periodically analyze non-strategic, transactional spend to identify repetitive buys at non-strategic suppliers that should be potentially aggregated and included in strategic sourcing initiatives
• Aggregate and report on data collected from supporting the supplier data management and purchasing processes related to spend amounts and suppliers used
• Respond to internal Client inquiries related to spend and supplier data
• Recommend catalog adjustment to Client based on analysis
• Recommend new catalogs to Client based on analysis
• Implement changes to hosted catalogs as requested or approved by Client
• Implement new hosted catalogs as requested or approved by Client

Qualifications and Skills

Minimum qualifications

• Graduate
• Experience in Procurement Function
• Basic analytical and problem solving Skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Good years of Experience in similar function

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

• Coupa / Ariba Preferred