Buyer

1 week ago

Houston, United States Siemens Energy Staffing Inc. Full time

Buyer - Job Description

Over the past few years, our aero-derivative turbine business has successfully grown to be a £1 billion per annum global business by focusing on the supply and support of aero-derivative gas turbine packages and equipment to the global oil & gas and power generation markets. The business has supplied over 4,000 gas turbines to customers in over 80 countries accumulating over 200 million hours of operating experience. It is our vision to be the customers' first choice for distributed power generation and compression systems solutions.

What are my responsibilities?

Processes and Procedures

Buyer will be accountable and responsible for ensuring their adherence to the company’s processes and procedures. Accountable and responsible for all ERP processes and SAP data in order to maintain and improve ERP compliance. Adherence to ERP processes, principles and accountabilities whilst operating within the supplier management team. Responsible for ensuring that all purchase documents are issued and maintained as appropriate including any required customer flow down requirements.

Strategic Sourcing

Where designated, Buyer is responsible for the execution of assigned commodity strategy(s) and responsible for the sourcing process and associated tasks. Buyer will also make recommendations to the Global Commodity Manager on sourcing decisions.

Supplier Management

Support Supplier Management processes (e.g. qualification, selection, evaluation, development, classification); update supplier evaluation systems to obtain and develop the best suppliers and ensure transparency and high procurement quality

Customer Interface

Ensure a close cooperation with Internal Customers (requisitioners) to ensure customer care and early involvement

Standardization

Contribute to implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g. compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems)

Negotiations

Prepare and conduct negotiations for medium Purchasing Volumes to obtain highest feasible savings

What are my specific tasks?

Vendor Schedules

Vendor schedules are an automated ordering process for the ordering of multiple, generally low value high volume parts within SAP and requires data accuracy generally once established will run for a minimum of one year. This is a key process within the purchasing department.
- Buyer will create vendor schedules in SAP and perform ongoing maintenance, including checking that issue numbers are correct on the schedule.
- It is the buyer’s responsibility to negotiate prices, lead times, and determine the source, and terms of agreement.
- Buyers will also check and submit to Purchase manager for authorisation and release to supplier.

Non-Vendor Schedule (ad-Hoc) orders
- Buyer will convert purchase requisitions into purchase orders.
- Existing PIR’s should be checked within SAP and if not valid will need to be re-validated
- Buyer will create the Purchase Order using standard texts
- It is the buyer’s responsibility to release the purchase order in accordance with the purchasing guidelines and authorisation limits once purchase support has created the purchase order.
- Any variations will be highlighted by the sourcing support and passed to the buyer for consideration and agreement on the next course of action.

Other activities include
- Sending out requests for quotes (RFQ) to suppliers within the approved supplier list.
- Collation of all necessary information including but not limited to drawings/specifications, quality requirements and send out the RFQ.
- Monitor responses and ensure completeness. Analysis of responses received - including cost/price, lead time, etc. Recommend source highlighting any issues / opportunities.
- Expedite responses from suppliers.
- Creation the PIR in SAP.

Invoice/commercial Queries
- Responsibility to resolve minor invoice/commercial queries with the suppliers
- General ad-hoc support and input into Siemens key initiatives e.g. Supplier Evaluation System, e-procurement tools, Approved Supplier Database, KPIs, Balanced Scorecard and World Class Purchasing measures.

What do I need to qualify for this job?
- Experience of procurement functions
- Experience of working with Cross functional teams in an operations and engineering environment
- Experience in the Manufacturing environment.
- Ability to work in a complex, fast changing global organisational environment
- Good understanding of business strategy and plans to ensure alignment.
- Familiarity with Operational Management and Quality Processes
- Good working knowledge of SAP and e-Procurement systems
- Have a creative and innovative mindset
- Practical experience in developing business improvements
- Previous experience of cost model development is desirable
- Outstanding Excel skills.
- Commercial and Contractual experience is desirable
- Bachelor’s degree

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