Sr. Buyer, Procurement, Site Baroda

Location

Vadodara | India

Job description

Chemistry that Matters™

A career at SABIC provides you with an opportunity to leave a lasting positive impact to the world and yourself. From excellent health and well-being benefits to our comprehensive learning programs. We offer a wide range of benefits and offerings that recognize that our people have unique motivations and ambitions. It’s all about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. Let’s explore what matters!

As one of the world’s largest diversified chemical companies, we activate the power of human capital to address society’s future challenges. Through partnerships, we enable life-saving medical innovations and help fight world hunger. We are driving the circular economy for the benefit of communities and our planet through sustainability initiatives, such as our TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio. Our success is built upon the collective excellence of our 32,000 employees in 50+ countries. Our values – Inspire, Engage, Create, and Deliver – are the foundation of our success. To learn more about these and how we strive to Be the Impact, click  here .

Our purpose is "Chemistry that Matters". This is what drives us to do what we do. "Chemistry" goes beyond applying science and technology to enhance the supply of essential materials to the world. It is how we work, to build long-lasting relationships of trust. “What Matters” is making a meaningful impact for the world – through the customers and communities we collaborate with, so that we succeed and grow together.

It is all about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. We are mindful about the importance of the team we are building and how our team members impact to our culture. We believe that good ideas come from anywhere, being inclusive to diverse perspectives is stimulating, encourages innovation and is critical to our mission. Let us explore this together!

For an overview of our benefits, click here

Job Summary

Lead Procurement activity for direct materials / indirect materials & services at the respective site locations in the ROA region. This position is responsible for the respective Site Procurement operation with required strategies, ensure uninterrupted Procurement operation, availability of supply, maximize value creation for SABIC. Maintain Suppliers' performance and relationship. Ensure operations compliant to Procurement policy, procedures and guidelines, along with local legislation standards and EHSS requirements. Design and implement best practices across the Procurement lifecycle and align with key stakeholders with relevant KPI and dashboard. Prepare and optimize the local / site category plans to expedite the procure to pay services and increase the value creation. Drive the awareness and change management among the stakeholders to comply with GPS Policies / procedures and share knowledge with other procurement personal to enhance organization capabilities.

How You Can Be the Impact

• Manage the day-to-day procurement activities by utilizing multiple tools while providing expertise, encouraging and ensuring cross-functional teamwork, aligning work processes in order to achieve high performance standards, establish and meet targets and objectives in a motivated work environment (including market intelligence analysis, Supplier development, Supplier registration, Bidding and Negotiation, Cross-functional alignment to prepare/conclude Contract & PO, expediting goods/service, logistic and documentation, payment, after service and other engagements including site audit , statutory audit, customer audit...)
• Liaise and coordinate with internal and external parties at the appropriate levels to support and ensure process execution and smooth flow of the goods & services for organization’s business operations continuity , providing forward looking market/supplier dynamics to the concerned key stakeholder for proactive measure to mitigate risk and create values
• Manage designated supplier relationships with supplier performance dashboard at region/site level and maintaining all procurement record and catalog in Procurement system.
• Develop and optimize Site / Local category plan and procurement service upon external benchmarking and supply market dynamics.
• Partnership with GPS internal teams to enhance and translate global/regional category strategies plans or best practices where applicable. Lead change management activities for process/system enhancements (power user / site readiness leads) and also to increase the awareness of GPS policies among the business community
• Work with APAC EMS team to provide regional requirements, support needs, and ensure center driven resources and efforts are effectively leveraged for Global/Regional selected categories.
• Continuously finds opportunities to make the function’s processes more efficient and effective over the period, and share these with peers as well as procurement leadership

What Matters to SABIC

• University Degree (Master/BS) in Chemicals, Polymers or other engineering disciplines, Business Administration or Finance.
• CPSM / CIPS certificate will be a plus.
• 10 years’ experience in procurement or supply management in Petrochemicals or other manufacturing industries
• 5 years’ experience in category management, Procurement strategy development and execution
• 3 years SAP, ARIBA experience or other ERP and e-Sourcing experience.
• Proficiency in communication

Eligibility Requirements

• You must submit your application for employment online to be considered. Please submit your resume using the “Apply Now/Apply” option on this page.
• You must be 18 years or older

We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer .We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.

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