Procurement Specialist

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This position reports to

Procurement Team Lead

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to purchase materials according to required technical specifications, price, delivery schedule, and terms. Each day, you will ensure purchasing activities align with corporate purchasing policies and procedures. You will also showcase your expertise by identifying new suppliers in cooperation with the relevant category team.

The work model for the role is:

This role is contributing to the Motion business Service division in Bangalore, India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Initiating Purchase Orders in the system, according to the purchase requisitions and in alignment with standard procedures, and confirming delivery with suppliers, monitoring, and tracking supplier performance to PO requirements.
• Negotiating agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews price lists and terms and conditions.
• Recommending frame agreements to management and executing upon approval.
• Analyzing and evaluating bids to determine the optimal value.
• RFQ management, supports in negotiating agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews pricelists, terms and conditions and feedback recommendations for appropriate actions.
• Adapts corporate contractual framework to the local business needs. Recommends frame agreements to management, ensures approved contractual terms in execution.
• Understanding the customer requirement and floating RFQ’s to suppliers to receive quotes.
• SAP Knowledge is must. Experience on SAP Ariba and Service Now would be an added advantage

Qualifications For The Role

• Any graduate (full-time) with 2-4 years’ experience.
• Supplier registration and qualification in SAP Ariba. Creation and supplier modification.
• RFQ management, supports in negotiating agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews pricelists, terms and conditions and feedback recommendations for appropriate actions.
• Adapts corporate contractual framework to the local business needs. Recommends frame agreements to management, ensures approved contractual terms in execution.
• Understanding the customer requirement and floating RFQ’s to suppliers to receive quotes.
• SAP Knowledge is must. Experience on SAP Ariba and Service Now would be an added advantage
• Aligns supplier orders with customer requirements (based on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)/project requirements) in terms of content, quality, delivery, sustainability and price.

More about us

ABB System Drives is the market leader in high-power, high-performance drives, drive systems and packages for industrial process and large infrastructure applications, and a leading supplier of power conversion equipment for renewable energy and other applications. The Division offers global support to help customers, partners and equipment manufacturers with asset reliability, performance improvement and energy efficiency in mission critical applications.

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