Company Description
Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world-class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity, and revitalizing rural communities.
Location: São Paulo – SP or Paulínia – SP
Role purpose
- To procure an assigned services and materials portfolio for Indirect Procurement Categories (Capex/Opex), ensuring technical requirements, on time, on specification supply delivering minimum total cost of ownership.
- To establish purchasing tenders, negotiate prices, and establish contracts or orders in line with demand.
- To provide local market knowledge / intelligence for components within the portfolio.
- Business Partnering with main Stakeholders
Accountabilities
For the assigned portfolio:
- Negotiate contracts and maintain day-to-day relationships with suppliers, including establishing supplier performance measures, conducting regular reviews focused on achieving “deal delivery”.
- Provide local market intelligence for assigned portfolio including documented sourcing analyses, supply scenario comparisons, and supplier research / new suppliers.
- Demonstrate compliance with procurement processes regarding e-tendering, Supplier Relationship Management (including performance management), and Contract Management.
- Build strong internal client and procurement networks to raise awareness, support internal clients, and share best practices.
- Actively participate in multi-functional sourcing teams and projects.
- Partner with internal clients to provide operational purchasing support.
- Register suppliers in Syngenta's Procurement platform – SAP and Ariba;
- Assist in the due diligence process (evaluation of suppliers before the bidding stage);
- Support Tenders preparation and documentation required
- Clarify doubts about tenders through Syngenta's Procurement platform;
- Support contracts analysis / preparation in conjunction with Syngenta's legal team;
- Follow-up of the contracting processes in progress
- Carry out a commercial evaluation and payment terms conditions.
- Conduct evaluation / feedback of suppliers, to identify high-performance suppliers and prepare an Improvement action plan for low-performing suppliers
WL: 4B
Qualifications
Critical knowledge
- Detailed knowledge of purchasing systems (desirable SAP and Ariba knowledge)
- Ability to handle detailed information and analyse and extract critical issues
- Good knowledge of supply markets and market cost drivers.
- Working knowledge of purchasing policies and procedures
Critical skills
- Negotiation, contract creation, and management skills of equipment and engineering service providers
- Ability to build up and maintain good communication internally and with suppliers
- Stakeholder Management
- Good interpersonal skills; ability to work in cross-functional teams; organization skills
- Excel - Intermediate Level
- Strong implementation skills
Critical experience
- Experience of working in a procurement or functional role