Global Procurement Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Review and approve new Purchase Requisition submissions through the Procure-to-Pay platform on Oracle Cloud.
• Monitor and manage all requisitions and purchase orders throughout the PR/PO lifecycle including business partner outreach, updating ownership, change orders, and closing Purchase Orders.
• Identify and report non-compliant Purchase Requisitions by following internal policies and procedures.
• Provide guidance, training, and education on the Procurement policy and process for business partners (i.e. How to Create Purchase Requisitions, Understanding of Procurement Compliance, and Commercial Contracts).
• Focus on day-to-day operational effectiveness by ensuring timely responses are provided to cross-functional stakeholders and drive issues to resolution.
• Assist with monitoring, triaging, and resolving tickets within the Procurement help desk.
• Support other ad hoc projects as assigned.
• Initial training will be provided during PST time zone hours (9 am - 5 pm PST).
• 100% Remote work
  

Skills:

• Minimum 4 years of indirect procurement/analyst/buyer or related experience.
• Focused experience on indirect procurement categories (Professional Services, Marketing, Workplace Operations, SaaS, etc). - Must Have
• Multilingual (desired) (e.g., Cantonese/Mandarin, Spanish, and/or French). The main language of business is English.
• Understanding of Source to Contract, Procure to Pay (P2P), and PR/PO lifecycles. - Must Have
• Experience with reading/understanding commercial contracts – Must Have
• Strong communication skills (written & verbal)
• Experience with P2P systems, Purchase Requisition Modules (Oracle Cloud preferred), JIRA, Salesforce, Contract Repositories, and ticketing systems a plus. - Must Have
• Experience working with various Finance and Business Systems.
• Experience training and mentoring business partners on Procurement processes, strong communication skills, effective problem-solving, planning, and ability to maintain strong cross-functional relationships.
• Experienced and excellent track record with providing quality customer service - leading stakeholders through a process, complex workflows, or situations, and more.
• Capacity to multitask.
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and accountable.
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity.