Associate Analyst Indirect Procurement

What You’ll Do

Critical Outputs

• Manages P2P cycle for indirect material, maintain supplier relationships and ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site, opportunities for product/supplier improvement, while ensuring adequate service levels are met.
• Acts and apply skillful negotiations (net-pay terms) with internal and external suppliers; conducts problem resolution and settles disputes; develops win-win solutions and creates positive relations with tact and expert judgment.
• Leverage Eaton procurement excellence tools in reporting Supplier Prices Increase Request and collaborate with Corporate/Business Category managers to leverage competitive suppliers
• Vendor management and maintenance of new/change supplier add requests, efficiently follow-up with functional team to update integrated ERP for issuing amended POs on time in avoiding penalties to business
• Prepare and release RFQ packages with approved suppliers in line with internal policies for identifying competitive suppliers and recommendation
• Collaborating with functional team in implementing cost saving projects, reporting/creating visibility to business on strategic purchase v/s tactical to avoid ineffective process
• Efficiently closing Open orders, resolving invoice issues, reducing invoice liability, business urgencies within SLA timelines
  

Essential Functions

• Manages and maintains all assigned current supplier contacts, business relationships and commercial responsibilities for the assigned sites.
• Assisting the corporate indirect material commodity teams implement projects for the sites assigned.
• Facilitate supplier questions on accounts payables and support any necessary activity for disposition of invoice resolutions and/or payment issues.
• Facilitates cross-functional collaboration with others to identify new areas of opportunity and achieve the greatest outcomes in support of SCM strategic goals and initiatives.
• Must have knowledge of Excel/Macro’s to on every operation, generating reports, advantage to have knowledge of Power Bi for creating and publishing reports at shared space
  

Qualifications

Skills

• Possesses expert knowledge SAP MM for managing complete P2P Cycle, Ariba for P2P,
• Shows track records for demonstrating leadership and thinking and acting strategically. Demonstrated experience with commodity products and suppliers.
• Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations, SCM personnel, and external suppliers.
• Knowledgeable on ERP system operations, functions, and interfaces. Enterprise reporting systems and data mining.
• Skilled in Microsoft office applications, heavily influenced excel.