About this role
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Execute operational day-to-day purchasing process requisitioning and P.O processing. • Conduct spot-buying for ad-hoc low value purchases not covered by contracts and drive simplification of current practices. • Negotiate price and purchasing volume to maximize the company’s profit and operational excellence. Ensure contractual agreements. • Implement lean and standardized Purchase-to-Pay methods and processes and drive consistent application in country. • Handle daily supply issues along the Requisition-to-Pay process. • Ensure compliance with company policies - GIPP and procedures. • Co-ordinate with suppliers to ensure that all delivery schedule and documents are received on time • Co-ordinate with relevant parties (e.g. Logistics, Warehouse, Engineering, Operations, Accounting, Regulatory Affairs, and Business Units) to support for Purchase-to-Pay processing • Handle suppliers claim or complaint management where relevant to area of responsibility. • Implement sourcing strategies to manage assigned category with emphasis on reducing total costs of ownership, improving efficiencies, and helping to assure supply chain continuity. • Maintain and share with colleagues as appropriate the business knowledge on GIPP, approve way to buy, regulations, procedures, market intelligence, etc. • Ensure new and existing suppliers are introduced to Brenntag through satisfying the minimum QHSE including financial requirement review with all related parties prior to being purchased. • Monitor, measure, report, and manage supplier performance in the areas of quality, delivery, cost, and compliance with QSHE requirements. • Support or execute procurement initiatives/ strategies as related to areas of responsibility or assigned suppliers. • Undertake other duties as may be assigned by the superiors.
Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree in any related fields.
• Professional certification in procurement / supply management/ supply chain management from a recognized institution is an advantage
Experience:
• Minimum 3 years as Indirect procurement professional with hand-on purchasing experience in handling multiple projects or a large number of transactions.
• A direct experience in managing key supplier account and / or tail spend procurement is considered an advantage. • A direct experience on using SAP and Salesforce is an advantage. • Experience in developing and coordinating good working relationships with all levels within the organization as well as suppliers is required.
• Experience in developing or executing a process improvement tool to ensure sourcing and ‘Procure to Pay’ effectiveness and efficiency for an organization and stakeholders along the supply chain is preferred.
Age : Open
Gender : Open Others :
• Good to excellent communication skills in both English and Thai (written and spoken). • Strong problem solving and negotiation skills. • Being energetic, organized, result-driven, and customer centric. • Ability to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality and integrity. • Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects with limited direct supervision. • Ability to respond and adapt to changing business conditions and evolving strategic guidelines. • Computer literate and knowledgeable in using SAP.
Brenntag TA Team