Your Role and Responsibilities:

As an Operations Buyer, prime responsibility is to procure basic goods and services, obtain quotation, vendor on-boarding and management, end to end procurement operations, contracting knowledge a must have to evaluate risks and adhere to Client requirements.

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

- Good communication skills with the ability to interact, convey, convince and understand depending on the requirement.
- Review requisition requirements
- Recognize Non-Catalog Purchases that should be directed to a Catalog Solution
- Work efficiently with requester/client for additional information or any questions
- Determine Source from Sourcing provided Master File
- Negotiate cost savings and terms when applicable (non-contracted sources)
- Understand relationships between contracts and can decipher details from contracts.
- Procurement of low dollar purchases services (including source identification as needed)
- Price and delivery Confirmation
- PO Order receipt Confirmation
- Working knowledge of ERP Tools supporting Procurement
- Knowledge of all client specific processes and procedures




- Complete Customer requests for set up of recent suppliers including providing applicable information
- Interface with clients and suppliers on supplier and payment issues in conjunction with tactical commodity manager
- Maintain all relevant supplier documentation
- Proficient with reporting/MS Excel to be able to maintain account specific reports and team trackers.
- Ensure Audit readiness of all purchasing documents
- Work with Stakeholders and Management efficiently
- Positive Attitude, Planning, Curiosity, Self-discipline, Ability to work in North America time zone (7.30 PM to 4.30 AM IST)

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:

- Minimum 1-3 years of experience in Procurement domain
- Experience in performing duties as Operations Buyer for Global Organizations
- The operations buyers will perform activities to Client preferred and IBM sourced vendors
- Good Communication skills
- Contracting knowledge will be a good to have additional skill set
- Comprehensive commercial procurement and client facing or consulting experience
- Virtual client facing skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

Years of Experience:
1 - 3

📌 Procurement Operations Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 IBM
📍 Bengaluru