As a Project Buyer Expeditor you will have day-to-day involvement in Procurement activity within the business to ensure efficient management of the targets needed. You will focus on tactical execution of purchase order schedules related to material for multiple projects within New Unit Gas Turbine Business. You will focus on internal customers and partners who can’t be successful without your contribution, timeliness and transparency. You will solve short term/daily issues, creating huge value for our customers. You will become an expert of tactical execution, expediting, and supply chain performance management.
This is currently a hybrid role requiring 3 days onsite per week, with the possibility of moving to a full-time onsite schedule in the future. Candidates must be comfortable with that possibility.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Primary responsibilities center on PO execution, expediting, supplier follow-up, and project support.
- Manage a work queue and secure that Purchase Orders are issued in due time
- Ensure a close cooperation with Internal Customers to ensure customer care and early involvement
- Attend project meetings and coordinate with project teams.
- Work closely with the Project Procurement Manager and other stakeholders.
- Review demand requirements in SAP and issue purchase orders based on approved supplier quotes.
- Track and expedite deliveries to ensure project timelines are met.
- Follow up with suppliers regarding delays, delivery issues, and action items.
- Manage PO approval workflows and proactively follow up on outstanding approvals.
- Manage a portfolio of suppliers, negotiate price increase requests, resolve issues pertaining to invoicing/payment
- Contribute to implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g. compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems)
- Maintain records of all documentation, adherence of online purchasing and contract management systems
- Support and/or lead Procurement Business Plan activities
- Strong collaboration with global and local project management and the operational material requirements planning team to achieve most effectiveness in planning, alignment and execution
- Continuously monitor own procurement list, follow up on execution such as order confirmation, progress, compliance with quality requirements
- Support and ensure compliance with transportation and customs requirements in close collaboration with Logistics team
- Provide weekly interval schedule progress reports
What You Bring
- Strong SAP transactional experience (SAP purchasing/buyer experience.)
- Purchase order creation and management experience.
- 3+ years of experience in direct procurement
- Prior purchasing, procurement, buyer, or expediting experience required.
- SAP experience is strongly preferred, and candidates should have hands-on experience creating purchase orders within SAP.
- Project procurement or project purchasing background.
- Supplier follow-up/expediting experience.Candidates should possess strong communication and stakeholder management skills in addition to purchasing experience. Building trust with project teams is a key component of success in this role.
- Experience managing purchase orders from creation through delivery follow-up.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced project environment.
- Team player with the ability to also work independently to meet fixed deadlines, goals and objectives
- Ability to work in a complex, fast changing global organizational environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, collaboration and influencing techniques, result-orientation and strategic-innovative thinking required
Candidates should be comfortable with:
- Working with large datasets and bills of material (BOMs)
Workload Expectations
- Support approximately 2-5 projects simultaneously.
- Manage approximately 15-30 purchase orders at a time, although workload complexity is more important than PO volume. Projects involve large, complex equipment and assemblies.