Strategic Buyer Oem

**Strategic Buyer OEM**:
GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success - come and join them We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

Why join GEA

**Job information**

**Reference Number**

JR-0034588

**Job function**

Procurement

**Position type**

Full time

**Site**

Via Fedolfi, 29, 43038 Sala Baganza PR
- For projects this person supports, acts as 1st Procurement point of contact for stakeholders in project management.
- Your responsibilities and tasks:
Sourcing
- Responsible for tactical sourcing activities related to the project supported, and
- for which the thresholds have been agreed with head of procurement and/or category managers.
- Based on the entity setup, can be responsible for low-spend contracting with vendors limited to general T&C or simplified
- agreements within scope of category strategy
- Responsible to steer the project in adherence with applicable category strategies & the use of preferred suppliers

Purchase Requisition, Purchasing & Order processing
- Responsible for processing purchase requisitions, purchase orders & following-up on order confirmations (with expediting
- if needed)
- Clarifies issues with requestors and suppliers
- Provides feedback to head of procurement when spotting requisitions going outside of suitable framework agreements
- Acts as 1st point of contact with vendors for daily operations

Invoice Processing & manage Master data
- Based on the entity setup, may support solving invoice mismatches that couldn‘t be processed by Finance/Accenture
- Based on the entity setup, may maintain local raw material or vendor master data

Project related interactions
- For projects this person supports, acts as 1st Procurement point of contact for stakeholders in project management,
- engineering, project planning, controlling (and other project relevant roles)
- Ensures that qualitative and quantitative inputs from the Project team are captured in the different stages of the project
- Requests sourcing support for the relevant scope of supply from Strategic Buyers and/or Category managers (direct &
- indirect)
- Is early involved in project Sales phase discussions, and recurrently involved in later phases
- Based on involvement, is responsible for sharing progress information from Procurement view (weekly project call,
- monthly steerCo, stage gate reviews )
- Partners with Logistics representative support the project (e.g. Transport manager) to track risks, costs and lead times
- related to transport/import/export/receipt of goods

Your profile and qualifications:

- 3+ years of experience in procurement
- ERP (SAP) / Procurement key user experiences / knowledge
- Know-how of international contract management
- Cultural Awareness
- Contract management experience is essential
- Experience with implementation of corporate procurement
- Work experience in complex organizations
- Negotiation experience
- Cost analysis and management
- Project Management Skills
- English (fluent)
- Financial and Business understanding
- Ability to network across sites and build relationships
- Good analytical capabilities, problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically & tactically
- Takes ownership of the work, successes and mistakes
- Ability to work in matrix organization
- Intercultural sensitivity
- Takes ownership of the work, successes and mistakes
- Very good communication skills