Procurement Buyer Jobs

Job Title: Procurement Buyer

Job Location: 100% Remote

Job Type: 03 months contract possibility of extension

Duties:

• Identify and report non-compliant Purchase Requisitions by following internal policies and procedures.
• 100% Remote work
• Initial training will be provided during PST time zone hours (9am - 5pm PST).
• Support other ad hoc projects as assigned.
• Focus on day-to-day operational effectiveness by ensuring timely responses are provided to cross functional stakeholders and drive issues to resolution.
• Primary focus on the supporting Australia/APAC time zone (1pm PST/4pm EST - 9pm PST/12am EST).
• 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).
• Monitor and manage all requisitions and purchase orders throughout the PR/PO lifecycle including business partner outreach, updating ownership, change orders and closing POs.
• Review and approve new Purchase Requisition submissions through the Procure-to-Pay platform (OracleCloud).

Skills:

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

Minimum 4 years of indirect procurement/analyst/buyer or related experience.