The Opportunity:

Sr Buyer Indirect Spend are expert practitioners in creating competitive environments and have a solid bias for decision-making rooted in data and analytics. They routinely influence Indirect Spend vendor relationships by advising senior leaders on innovative sourcing strategies that create sustainable, long-term partnerships. They are highly effective communicators, able to articulate the value proposition that procurement can bring to their organizations. The role need to have hands on experience in supplier negotiations, auctions/advanced negotiation methods, Supplier relationship management, data analytics, Power BI, Usage of AI/Copilot in Sourcing activities (reporting, MS Tools etc.), creating Power BI , SAP, Category Strategy , Knowledge of Vendor market ,Willing to start from scratch, Knowledge of Indirect & Economic Megatrends etc.
Key Responsibilities:
• Process requests as per requirement – meet and exceed KPIs defined/set parameters
• Deliver tasks as per Service Level requirements specified by the Business Unit/Center/Stakeholder




• Upskill process knowledge from time to time
• Able to work in a team – understand role in team - help accomplish team goals and objectives – meet and exceed stakeholder objectives/goals
• Uphold VWR Culture, Values at all times
• Willingness to work in any shift
• Compliance to VWR’s Policies, Procedures, rules and regulations
• Flexibility for any lateral movement amongst the various Business Functions

Key Tasks:
Procure -to-Pay:
- Reviewing Purchase requisition received from stakeholders, ensuring to check completeness, and getting details from stakeholders if discrepancies found.
- Creation and amendment of POs in SAP for NA/EU/AMEA region.
- Knowledge of applicable taxes in NA/EU/AMEA region.
- Fetch spend data from SAP for particular category/vendor/region/cost center.
- Experience in fetching SAP BW reports related to PR and PO and its analysis.
- Exposure to account payable transactions and reports

📌 Sr Buyer Indirect Spends (Pune)
🏢 Avantor
📍 Pune