SR. EXECUTIVE - PURCHASING

1. Deliver the global Purchasing Support Group services with an excellent manner.

1. Receiving agreement request from the clients, review the request, selecting the approved format for the agreement, initiating the agreement with supplier.


2. Coordinate with Buyers, Suppliers, and other Stakeholders to get necessary information for agreement execution.


3. Able to understand and derive evolving data elements from Contracts, Changes in Agreements based on Authority Guideline.


4. Negotiating with the supplier based on Approved Authority Guidelines.


5. Able to understand scope of work and facilitate subsequent discussion accordingly.


6. A. Manage agreement workload and actively follows-up on outstanding items and approvals required to forward contracts for legal review, as necessary.


7. Communicate with line of business/department partners about daily transactional matters


8. Follow workflow procedures to ensure maximum efficiency.


9. Completing tasks assigned by the supervisor, upholding the organizations values, and maintaining a high degree of professionalism with all stakeholders.


10. Understand and execute redline management based on Authority Guideline.


11. Coordinate and work with buyer, legal, stakeholder and supplier for timely execution and signoff of agreements.


12. Participate in trade-off discussion with buyer, legal, stakeholder and supplier whenever necessary.


13. Managing daily purchasing support activities, work and execute the assigned tasks, and ensure SLAs are adhered with high level of accuracy


14. Manage relations with the stakeholders and be a customer advocate for all the assigned global purchasing support areas.

1. Follow and Enforce company s Global Procurement Policy and procedures

1. Understand the Kohler s Global Procurement Policy


2. Enforce this across the business and stakeholders for Purchasing or related activities

1. Standard Operating Process (SOP) Setup and Process Improvement
   
   
   
   1. Constantly search and seek out improvement of Purchasing Support processes and practices that eliminates non-value-added activity and incorporates relevant best practices
   
   
   
   

1. Work effectively with all the concerned teams, functions

1. Develop, Maintain, and enhance relations with the stakeholders. Understand all stakeholder/internal customer requirements


2. Forecast growth opportunities, prepare roadmaps, and build capabilities for future readiness


3. Be actively involved in global Purchasing Support enhancement projects

What we are looking for from your past experience

Experience requirement:

1. 7+ years experience in purchasing & contract management preferably in Marketing, HR and Professional service industry.


2. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


3. Strategic purchasing mindset and strong basic of contract management


4. Good understanding of Master Service Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Amendments and Statement of work (SOW)


5. Highly service-oriented, with exceptional interpersonal skills to facilitate communication with all levels of company management, across all business lines, and with suppliers.


6. Very good presentation and Documentation skills.