Associate Procurement Representative

• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth.
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best.
• Thrive in a company that values sustainability and drives a safety focused culture.
• Access to Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s). These grassroots, employee-led groups are open to anyone in the organization and allow employees to come together to explore common interests and foster a diverse and inclusive workplace within the organization.
• Access to multiple knowledge sharing platforms to enhance collaboration and engagement.
  

What You Will Do

• Follow safety policies to provide a safe workplace for all employees and supports the guiding principles of Goal Zero to continually improve the plant’s safety, health and environmental performance, security, design, development, manufacture, storage, marketing, distribution, use and ultimate safe disposal of chemical products. Drive culture of safety; Report safety observations / incidents.
• Supports and is committed to the Quality Improvement Process. Plans strategies to ensure error-free work by “doing it right the first time” and conveys this attitude in the daily performance of various duties, in our drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance to purchasing policy and SOP requirements.
• Lead the market research & new source / vendor development efforts for EH region direct materials (chemical) categories.
• Extensively working on alternate developments against single/sole sources, right cost country sourcing initiatives & developing supplier chemistry capabilities matrices.
• Represent procurement function & co-ordinate with cross functional teams for Alternative Supplier Approval Process.
• Manage RFQ process for new projects / tenders / product set ups.
• Represent & lead the Supplier Quality Management efforts from procurement side for EH region.
• Prepare procurement performance reports - arbitrage opportunities, safety & quality.
• Creates and maintains individual plans/goals that reflect weekly, monthly, and yearly objectives. Actively strives to achieve goals/objectives.
  

Minimum Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering
• 3 years of work experience in direct materials procurement in Chemical or O&G industry
• Proficient in SAP, Microsoft Office Suite & Power BI Dashboard.