Sourcing Specialist
At Nouryon, our global team of Changemakers takes positive action every day, to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society’s needs – today and in the future.
We are looking for team members who bring ideas forward, champion others and work together to do better. Does that sound like you?
Brief Summary
The Manager of Intelligence position is a strategic role within our chemical manufacturing company. This new position is designed to optimize the management and utilization of intelligence resources, enhance collaboration across departments, and ensure that our intelligence purchases are both cost-effective and fit for purpose. The role will be located at the Nouryon Global Business Center in Mumbai, providing synergy with the Procurement Manager for indirect spend and several intelligence analysts already based there.
In your future role as “Sourcing Specialist” you will
The end-to-end S2C process spans across understanding purchase requisition and floating the requisitions in AI enable procurement portal to relevant suppliers. In this role the Sourcing Specialist is responsible for the purchase of materials and services in a timely and efficient manner in accordance with approved strategy and per Delegation of Authority rules and other company policies and procedures.
About the job (Job Responsibilities)
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Understand the complete end to end requirements from the PR requester/user i.e. scope of work or specification of service or material respectively.
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Floating the RFQ in AI enabled FairMarket portal (Procurement tool like Ariba) to relevant suppliers for awarding the PR within the desired TAT and delivering cost reduction and cost avoidance.
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Active communication with stakeholders and suppliers for regular updates of sourcing activities and maintain the collaborative relationships.
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Establishes and utilizes a site support network (incl. Planners and Schedulers) for timely acquisition of site managed materials and services incl. to suppliers while achieving maximum overall cost effectiveness.
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Acts as an indirect procurement contact including urgent orders for internal clients located at various sites up to agreed spend level as per DOA limits.
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Sourcing specials must have good communication skills to establish clear two-way communication with stake holders located remotely in various global sites to fully understand their requirements and scope of work requested.
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Ensures strict adherence to Procurement strategy achieving maximum overall cost effectiveness within a country or regional basis.
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Subject matter Expert for SAP procurement processes and systems, knowledgeable with Ariba
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Always strives for excellence and utmost efficiency during day-to-day work.
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Communicate with vendors and support Nouryon process compliance (PO, Invoicing, etc) for vendors.
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Facilitating alternative options for obsolete materials/vendor.
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Extension of vendors to other company codes in SAP and new vendor onboarding. Facilitating vendors for banking, tax, address, contact and PO email routing updates.
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Continuous improvement and S2C KPI tracking: Vendor Engagement, S2C TAT delay, Contract/OA utilization, etc.
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Support governance of S2C policies and procedures.
We believe you bring
- Education : Bachelor's degree preferred (or recognized equivalent).
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Competencies and skills
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2+ years related experience required with degree: 6+years' experience in lieu of degree.
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Experience using SAP.
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ERP system (ECC and VIM) and Ariba for procurement processes.
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Advanced written and spoken English communication skills.
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Good Excel skills required.
We believe you are
Fluency in English, with additional languages being a plus.-
High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
We offer you
At Nouryon, we provide a great job and friendly coworkers, plus benefits in addition to salary such as Medical insurance for individual and family.
Have we got your interest?
This is a permanent position on a full-time basis and based in Airoli , Navi Mumbai office
Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once it's with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process, visit: nouryon.com/careers/how-we-hire/
We look forward to receiving your application!
We kindly ask our internal candidates to apply with your Nouryon email via Success Factors.
We encourage you as a valued Nouryon employee to share talents from your network to help us to bring in new Changemakers through our new Employee Referral Program! Bringing in new, skilled people with a great mindset is beneficial for both you and Nouryon. All info you need to make a referral is here. Join us in growing Nouryon!
About Nouryon
We’re looking for tomorrow’s Changemakers, today.
If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team of Changemakers in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment.
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Contact
For additional information about the vacancy please contact Local HR.
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