Procurement Junior Buyer (Portuguese Speaker)

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite at BGC Taguig 2x/week

Job summary

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in the Philippines seeks a procurement professional to manage end-to-end transactional buying, supplier allocation, and bidding activities. You will ensure compliance, proper coding, and timely order follow-up, while supporting continuous improvement and process efficiency.

Requirements include a Bachelor’s in Finance/Business, 1–3 years in procurement, Portuguese and English fluency, and experience with SAP-ERP/SRM/CRM.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accountancy/Business or related field.
• 1–3 years in procurement (sourcing, bid evaluation, translating requests).
• Negotiation, international logistics, supplier management with Incoterms ideal.
• Portuguese language proficiency required; strong English communication.
• Experience with SAP-ERP, SRM, CRM or similar systems.

Responsibilities

• Process purchasing requests and allocate to suppliers per SLA and policy.
• Ensure compliance with spend policy and assign UNSPSC codes.
• Resolve first-line issues by engaging stakeholders and suppliers.
• Manage sourcing: analyze requisitions, enforce supplier strategy, source per commodity.
• Obtain best price, delivery, and terms for non-contracted items; follow orders.
• Coordinate SRM catalog data and frame contracts in catalogs.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives; monitor orders and close-out.

Skills

Portuguese proficiency

English communication

Critical thinking

Team player

Initiative

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accountancy/Business

Tools

SAP-ERP

SRM

CRM

Job description

The role is responsible for managing end-to-end transactional buying and sourcing activities, ensuring timely allocation to suppliers within the agreed service levels. It involves analyzing requisitions, enforcing supplier compliance, conducting bidding or sourcing activities, and securing the best price, delivery, and terms for non-contracted items. The position also ensures accuracy in purchase orders, monitors order status, and maintains compliance with company policies and procurement guidelines. Additionally, it contributes to process efficiency by identifying non-value-added tasks and supporting continuous improvement within procurement operations.

What You’ll Do

• You process purchasing requests and appropriately allocate them to suppliers within required service level agreements, in accordance with established policies, SOPs, and SWIs, across designated procurement commodities.
• You ensure compliance with the company spend policy.
• You ensure products and services are assigned UNSPSC codes in alignment with regional and global requirements.
• You complete first-line issue resolution by engaging stakeholders and suppliers, and escalating to identified groups when necessary.
• You manage the sourcing process by:
• You analyze requisitions.
• You enforce the preferred supplier compliance strategy.
• You source according to the commodity-driven supplier list.
• You obtain the best price, delivery, and terms for non-contracted items.
• You complete order follow-up tasks, including purchase order acknowledgements, order monitoring and close-out, blocked invoice resolution, and handling non-fulfilled orders.
• You coordinate catalog information in the SRM system.
• You direct shopping carts to frame contracts and catalogs where available.
• You actively participate in continuous improvement initiatives.

What We’re Looking For

• You must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in Finance/Accountancy/Business or any related major.
• You must have 1-3 years of experience in Procurement (sourcing, evaluating bids, proven ability to correctly translate and process customer requests).
• Preferably, you must have negotiation experience, International Logistics expertise, Supplier Management with foreign incoterms, and experience working in multinational companies.
• You are required to have the ability to speak, write, and read in Portuguese.
• You must have previous experience with SAP-ERP, SRM, CRM, or a comparable system.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• You have the ability to follow procedures and sequential processes.
• You must have critical thinking skills to analyze/review orders and drive process efficiencies.
• You are a team player and have strong interpersonal skills.
• You have proven ability to work on your own initiative.
• You are amenable to report onsite 2x a week in BGC, Taguig City.
• You are willing to work on a mid-shift or night shift schedule.

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 68,000 people and manufactures its products in 51 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to Goodyear.com.

Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.