Senior Category Buyer

Provides purchasing solutions expertise, using Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, and Management (QCLDM) to deliver maximum value.

Responsibilities

Developing, managing and executing the category strategy managing policies, agreements, source catalogs, and special procurement programs.
Recognizing the potential for cost decreases, inventory reductions and quality improvement, as well as responsibility for soundness of business proposals and risk assessment.

Acting as the liaison between the organization and the supplier to communicate information explicitly, while considering production demands and suppliers conditions.

Documenting the suppliers performance on time sensitiveness and production; maintains a strong relationship with suppliers.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Data Analytics: Knowledge of techniques and processes for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data; ability to discover useful information, draw logical conclusions, and support decision-making.

Level Extensive Experience:

Advises stakeholders on the relationship between financial, performance, and operational data used in business data analytics.
Anticipates operational challenges of data collection and its integration with decision-making.

Identifies correlations that reveal trends and determine conditions.
Evaluates the quality of data collected and the effectiveness of data analysis methods for evaluating business performance.
Interprets potential risks, threats, and opportunities involved with predictive modeling.

Directs the implementation of business data collection processes and educates junior employees on new data sources.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Extensive Experience:

Reviews others writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

Level Extensive Experience:

Seeks out whats common in conflicting points of view.
Influences key individuals inside and outside own group and earns their respect.
Resolves potentially harmful differences between individuals and groups of people.
Contributes as a member on a variety of teams.
Establishes and maintains productive working relationships within and outside of own area.
Establishes and maintains credibility with clients and teammates.

Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Extensive Experience:
Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests.
Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.
Details the risks of negotiation breakdown from each partys perspective.
Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win.
Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.
Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate.

Contracts Management and Administration: Knowledge of policies, standards and processes of how to manage and administer contracts; ability to use proper processes and practices for managing and administering a variety of contractual agreements.

Level Extensive Experience:

Supervises management and administration for a wide variety of contracts.
Advises on the practices and considerations for upgrading existing contracts and solving complex contract management problems.
Trains others on how to use advanced technologies and tools for contracts management.
Develops standard processes to maximize contracts efficiency and effectiveness.
Evaluates operational issues and considerations in contract enforcement.
Anticipates contract issues and manages risk regarding legal issues.

Purchasing Tasks and Activities: Knowledge of policies, regulations and processes of purchasing; ability to use practices and procedures for procurement of materials, components, equipment and services.
Level Extensive Experience:
Works with the implementation of complex purchasing programs and tasks.
Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex purchasing activity problems.
Monitors the effectiveness of procurement policies and strategies in high cost purchases.
Improves procurement processes to maximize products or services efficiency and effectiveness.

Teaches others how to use advanced technologies and tools for purchasing activities.
Evaluates issues and considerations for purchasing various goods and services.

Supplier Relationship Management: Knowledge of supplier relationship management concept and strategies; ability to address critical issues to meet supplier needs and maintain engaged, partnering relationship with suppliers.
Level Extensive Experience:

Advises others on the organizations supplier relationship management practices.
Builds consensus, resolves conflicts, and applies techniques to achieve influence and impact results with different suppliers in the organizations supplier network.
Coaches juniors on selecting, evaluating, and managing suppliers.
Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes in supplier relationship establishment and management.

Evaluates the impact of SRM on the organizations different financials.
Refines organizational processes for establishing and maintaining supplier partnerships.

Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
Level Extensive Experience:
Participates in monitoring the execution for all stages of the strategic sourcing process.

Trains others on strategic sourcing in multiple and diverse environments.
Designs and develops standard supplier agreements and procurement policies with standardized terms and conditions.
Works with complex strategic sourcing components including but not limited to negotiations, contracting, and continuous process improvement and implementation.

Consults on strategic sourcing methods in relation to business relationships, inter-dependencies and integration.
Develops and explains strategic sourcing best practices and rationale for the organization and industry.

Additional Information:

Candidate will be responsible for leading the regional procurement strategy in Australia in terms of Plan for every supplier. The incumbent should be conceive, develop and implement the plans of CPA, SPM and RCCP for the suppliers based on their performance and strategy. Grow, Exit, Maintain and onboard strategies for suppliers including cost management is the core deliverable.

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