SR. EXECUTIVE - PURCHASING

• Deliver the global Purchasing Support Group services with an excellent manner.
• Receiving agreement request from the clients, review the request, selecting the approved format for the agreement, initiating the agreement with supplier.
• Coordinate with Buyers, Suppliers, and other Stakeholders to get necessary information for agreement execution.
• Able to understand and derive evolving data elements from Contracts, Changes in Agreements based on Authority Guideline.
• Negotiating with the supplier based on Approved Authority Guidelines.
• Able to understand scope of work and facilitate subsequent discussion accordingly.
• A. Manage agreement workload and actively follows-up on outstanding items and approvals required to forward contracts for legal review, as necessary.
• Communicate with line of business/department partners about daily transactional matters
• Follow workflow procedures to ensure maximum efficiency.
• Completing tasks assigned by the supervisor, upholding the organization's values, and maintaining a high degree of professionalism with all stakeholders.
• Understand and execute redline management based on Authority Guideline.
• Coordinate and work with buyer, legal, stakeholder and supplier for timely execution and signoff of agreements.
• Participate in trade-off discussion with buyer, legal, stakeholder and supplier whenever necessary.
• Managing daily purchasing support activities, work and execute the assigned tasks, and ensure SLAs are adhered with high level of accuracy
• Manage relations with the stakeholders and be a customer advocate for all the assigned global purchasing support areas.
• Follow and Enforce company’s Global Procurement Policy and procedures
• Understand the Kohler’s Global Procurement Policy
• Enforce this across the business and stakeholders for Purchasing or related activities

• Constantly search and seek out improvement of Purchasing Support processes and practices that eliminates non-value-added activity and incorporates relevant best practices
• Work effectively with all the concerned teams, functions
• Develop, Maintain, and enhance relations with the stakeholders. Understand all stakeholder/internal customer requirements
• Forecast growth opportunities, prepare roadmaps, and build capabilities for future readiness
• Be actively involved in global Purchasing Support enhancement projects
  

Experience Requirement

What we are looking for from your past experience

• 7+ years’ experience in purchasing & contract management preferably in Marketing, HR and Professional service industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic purchasing mindset and strong basic of contract management
• Good understanding of Master Service Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Amendments and Statement of work (SOW)
• Highly service-oriented, with exceptional interpersonal skills to facilitate communication with all levels of company management, across all business lines, and with suppliers.
• Very good presentation and Documentation skills.