Spot Buyer with Spanish and English language

Place of work
Plynarenska 7/C, Bratislava
Contract type
full-time

WHAT WILL
YOU DO

• Review and analyze client requirements. Work with CLIENT to determine best procurement strategy to meet the needs of the requirements.
• Identify and source potential suppliers based on the requirements provided by CLIENT’s stakeholders / customers / end-users / requestors.
• Proactively develop and maintain productive working relationships with key customers and suppliers, with a focus on understanding and addressing and incorporating client-specific contractual requirements into supply agreements.
• Collaborate with CLIENT, and Accenture (if applicable), Category Managers and Global Category Leads to ensure alignment with broader strategy, inclusive of establishing supplier agreements with suppliers meeting client requirements.
• Pre-qualify Suppliers based on prior experience and performance in the category, financial strengths/ratings, and ability to meet or provide current requirements.
• Determine and develop RFx Selection Model for supplier solicitation.
• Negotiate CLIENT’s terms and conditions, along with CLIENT’s Procurement and Legal – as required, as well as pricing with selected supplier. Ensure best pricing and terms and conditions for requirements are met for CLIENT’s need.
• Report cost savings using established cost savings methodologies.
• Enforce corporate policy on the use of master agreements and approval guidelines.
• Be positioned to provide suppliers and end-user a comprehensive overview of contract execution tasks with focus on requisitioning of and understanding of payment-for-services rendered.
• Manage contract execution process, including obtaining contract signatures, when and where applicable.
• Maintain a strong understanding and knowledge of legal points and policy issues, which mitigate legal risk for CLIENT and Accenture.
• Track and monitor supplier performance aligning to overall supplier management framework for the category. This includes monitoring and managing supplier deliverables against agreed statement of work (SOW) / contract milestones, and work with end-users to take appropriate action in the event of delay / non-delivery.
• Support the development of statements of work (SOWs) / contracts containing detailed user requirements and supplier expectations.
• Report Spot Buy Program spend and savings results against forecasts. Electronically "route" Tail Spend purchase requisitions to Supplier, based on pre-agreed parameters as defined above
• Assessment of Tail Spend opportunities via data mining and spend analysis using CLIENT’s tools
• Agree with Supplier process for conducting ongoing CLIENT’s stakeholders and suppliers communications for promotion of the tail spend service
• Conduct ongoing communication with CLIENT’s stakeholders and suppliers to promote the tail spend service
• Work with CLIENT’s Procurement to continuously identify key business stakeholders with tail spend and work closely with them to align their needs and drive more spend through the Tail Spend management service
• Understand stakeholder requirements, and work together to drive Tail Spend though the Tail Spend management team
• Clarify purchase item specification in order to procure optimum product/service
• Validate specification based on CLIENT’s internal buying policies if applicable, and propose alternatives if required to optimise the savings opportunity
• Leverage all existing category cards as provided by CLIENT
• Support supplier rationalization
• Review possible additions to existing catalogues and report to category sourcing lead
• Periodic vetting of existing contracts, pricing, terms and conditions to execute opportunity strategy
• Identify ability to source product / service through extension of an existing contract
• Utilise market & supplier knowledge to propose additional potential suppliers for CLIENT to consider if appropriate, based on CLIENTS NAME stated
• Create / update of category cards when applicable
• Identify and source potential vendors based on the requirements provided by CLIENT and based on the standard spot buy process as outlined in the category cards
• Determine and develop quote/RFx for vendor solicitation based on sourcing strategy and size
• Negotiate pricing with vendors on existing quotes, based on value threshold, to verify best pricing requirements are met for CLIENT
• Document negotiations and procurement results, to include cost savings and mitigated risks
• Confirm approved supplier to requestor when notified by CLIENT
• Update purchase request with new supplier information
• Work with relevant category manager / sourcing project lead within CLIENT to define contract approach
• Update contract within Contracts Database, Expense Map and Orange Pages
• Provide all details of the selected item to the eCatalogue team for uploading
• Manage live Quick Auction Event where determined for higher value requests (typically >£50k)
• Maintain communications with all in-scope bidders/suppliers throughout the auction event

WHAT WE
EXPECT

• 0 - 2 years buying experience in a corporate procurement organization
• Preferred experience in buying and sourcing goods and services / labor (including capital)
• Good interpersonal skills (needs to be able to build relationships over the phone without meeting suppliers / customers on a regular basis
• Ability to negotiate with suppliers
• Procurement and analytical background.
• Quantitative skills — ability to understand pricing models and analyze/interpret commercial proposals
• Fluent written and spoken German language skills
• Fluent written and spoken Spanish language skills


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ID: 2580535  Dátum zverejnenia: 26.5.2016