Purchasing Specialist I

Ibiden Philippines, Inc.; Lapu-lapu; On-site; PHP 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Ibiden Philippines, Inc. is seeking a Procurement professional to manage material purchases, expediting deliveries and monitoring open POs to ensure 100% on-time material supply for production.

The role includes negotiating supplier quotes, tracking price trends, processing PRs and POs, and maintaining strong supplier relationships to support cost control and timely production.

Qualifications

• Graduate of BS Industrial Engineering, BS Administration, BS Operations Management or any related course.
• At least one year experience in procurement, material forecasting & ordering.
• Willing to work onsite in FPIP Sto. Tomas, Batangas.

Responsibilities

• Reviews supplier quotations and negotiates for favorable prices to reduce costs.
• Monitor price trends and investigate price changes for regular materials.
• Assess requested sourcing to meet target lead times and RFS closures.
• Process Purchase Requests and issue POs to suppliers to ensure timely delivery.
• Communicate with suppliers to confirm orders and manage delays.
• Generate Supplier Performance Evaluations semi-annually.
• Ensure supplier deliveries align with end-user requirements and schedules.

Skills

Negotiation

Supplier coordination

Procurement planning

Education

BS Industrial Engineering

BS Administration

BS Operations Management

Job description

Facilitate the purchases of material, focus on delivery expediting, monitor open PO and initiate the supplier development to ensure 100% on time delivery and supply of materials in production contributing cost control in purchases. Responsible in analyzing material simulation to check on-hand the critical items.

Responsibilities

• Reviews and assesses supplier quotations and conduct negotiation for appropriate price in order to achieve target cost reduction.

• Monitoring of price trend of all regular purchased materials per assigned commodity and conduct investigation in cases of price change.

• Analyze and assess requested sourcing of materials by the end user in order to achieve target leadtime of closing out RFS.

• Process all Purchase Requests for assigned commodities to ensure that all materials will be served on time according to end-user's requirement.

• Prepare and issue POs to suppliers. Secure PO confirmation from supplier to guarantee delivery.

• Monitor continuously the status of issued Purchase Orders to ensure on-time delivery. Consistently communicate with suppliers in case orders will not be served on time. Assess impact of missed delivery and negotiate new delivery commitment that would still fall within the acceptable schedule of end-users.

• Advise, control and communicate with suppliers for the delivery of purchased items or materials in order to prevent delayed deliveries.

• Check completeness and accuracy of Supplier invoice and other supporting documents for PO closure and payment purposes: coordinate with supplier in case of problem with the submitted documents.

• Set meeting with Suppliers for face-to-face discussion of all Suppliers who fall on the classification defined on the policy.

• Generate Supplier Performance Evaluation in a semi-annual basis.

• Monitor the improvement of average and poor performing suppliers and initiate actions to push suppliers for improvement in case there are no evident actions being done to address the observed weaknesses.

Qualification

• Graduate of BS Industrial Engineering, BS Administration, BS Operations Management or any related course.

• At least one (1) year experience in procurement, material forecasting & ordering is an advantage.

• Willing to work onsite in FPIP Sto. Tomas, Batangas