At Nouryon, our global team of Changemakers takes positive action every day, to reach higher goals collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer societys needs today and in the future.
Purpose of the Job
The end-to-end S2C process spans across understanding purchase requisition and floating the requisitions in AI enable procurement portal to relevant suppliers. In this role the Sourcing Specialist is responsible for the purchase of materials and services in a timely and effective manner in accordance with approved strategy and per Delegation of Authority rules and other company policies and procedures.
About the job (Job Responsibilities)
- Understand the complete end to end requirements from the PR requester/user i.e. scope of work or specification of service or material respectively.
- Floating the RFQ in AI enabled FairMarkit portal (Procurement tool like Ariba) to relevant suppliers for awarding the PR within the desired TAT and delivering cost reduction and cost avoidance.
- Active communication with stakeholders and suppliers for regular updates of sourcing activities and maintain the collaborative relationships.
- Establishes and utilizes a site support network (incl. Planners and Schedulers) for timely acquisition of site managed materials and services incl. to suppliers while achieving maximum overall cost effectiveness.
- Acts as an indirect procurement contact including urgent orders for internal clients located at various sites up to agreed spend level as per DOA limits.
- Sourcing specials must have good communication skills to establish clear two-way communication with stake holders located remotely in various global sites to fully understand their requirements and scope of work requested.
- Ensures strict adherence to Procurement strategy achieving maximum overall cost effectiveness within a country or regional basis.
- Subject matter Expert for SAP procurement process