Buyer- Procurement Services

3 weeks ago

Willow Grove, United States Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 014 Full time

**Buyer**

The Buyer is part of the Procurement Services team, and this role is integral to the balance between the strategic and tactical facets of the Procurement team and will play an important role in ensuring that the strategic solutions of Sourcing are finding strong and sustained utilization through the Procurement ends of the department. The Buyer will be given autonomy to craft solutions necessary to get the job done within the protocols and policies of the department and broader enterprise. The Buyer’s workday may be filled with various activities, including supporting purchasing needs, participating in tactical and strategic sourcing efforts, or working with suppliers to resolve open action issues. The Buyer’s role is a very active role, and will be given many opportunities to solve problems, build relationships with various levels of operational leadership, and develop skills for progress into more of the senior and/or strategic sourcing elements of the department.

**Job Type**: Exempt

**Pay**: Salary

**Are you a real go-getter looking for an amazing opportunity with a nationwide full-service-utility contractor offering competitive wages and incredible benefits? Keep reading because this job might be for you**
- Since 1928, Asplundh has been dedicated to safe, efficient, and innovative line clearance services for the utility industry. Reliable, uninterrupted power is an important service provided by the world's electrical utilities and Asplundh has the expertise to help keep the power flowing. Diversification over the years has opened up vegetation management services to other specialized markets such as municipalities, railroads, pipelines, helicopter vegetation services, and departments of transportation._
- A family-owned and operated corporation headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Asplundh has grown to employ over 33,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand._

**Benefits**:

- Benefits Available and vary per position and location.

**Essential Functions & Responsibilities**:
Procure to Pay
- Establish and track open Purchase Order process with suppliers, improve Purchase Order backlogs, along with any other aspects of fulfillment.
- Generate, confirm, and modify purchase orders; proactively identify potential fulfillment challenges and make appropriate recommendations to remediate the situation.
- Follows up in a timely fashion with suppliers on late deliveries, obtain shipping confirmations/proof of delivery as required.
- Follows up on orders to ensure that product is shipped and delivered by expected delivery date.
- Meet with internal Strategic Sourcing Team to review order fulfillment issues, make recommendations for adjustments, and determine corrective action to remedy any out-of-stock situations.
- Utilize the Procurement system (Coupa) to complete the Requisition-to-PO process on behalf of department colleagues or stakeholders.
- Support Accounts Payable with supplier billing issues or other needs relative to invoicing and Purchase Order payments.

Strategic Supplier Management
- Oversee, manage, and develop relationships with suppliers, new and long incumbent, within the Buyer’s area of commodity management.
- Ensure the Procure-to-Pay process is well understood by the supply base under management, as well as by the business as necessary, and be prepared to document any unique process elements or exception-based review/approval elements.
- Support and/or conduct quarterly business reviews with suppliers under management. Meetings should be a mixture of backward
- and forward-looking assessments with a focus on developing better and stronger values for both sides.
- Support the creation and delivery of training material for the department and business about the supply base offerings, respective to suppliers under management. Create quick reference guides, announcements, bulletins, and other communication documents that help build deeper understanding of the value of each supplier.
- Source to Contract
- Read, understand, and follow sourcing guidance and guidelines within the Buyer’s area of category management.
- On occasion, conduct requests for quote, requests for information within the Buyer’s area of category management.
- On occasion, participate in a team responsible for conducting requests for proposal; Participation may include the pre-RFX activities such as spend analysis, market research, customer requirements definition, as well as RFX event tasks such as building the event, launching the event, supporting response generation, evaluation, and award.
- Support non-catalog and unique requests from various stakeholders that require low to moderate complexity (_3 bids and a buy_) in resolving within the Buyer’s area of category management.
- On occasion, support contract actions which might include document preparation, light negotiating, legal review requests, and final package load into Contract mo

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