Procurement Associate

We are looking for a Procurement Associate to join Procurement Operations. You will be a key member in a team of specialists, supporting transactional and operational procurement capabilities, and actively collaborating and engaging with procurement colleagues in global locations, with specific focus on support for Direct procurement.

Job Overview: Procurement Operations seeks to positively impact business user and supplier experience, ensuring a consistent, efficient, and policy led process. Procurement Associate's act as a change agent to improve business user experience, provide services and support to our business teams to ensure the lights stay on, and offer creative solutions to problems as needs arise.

Responsibilities:

• Provide procurement helpdesk service to optimally handle and respond to inbound issues or support requests through to resolution.
• Enable transactional purchases and business process tasks in line with agreed service levels and promote preferred buying channels through to pay.
• Collaborate with geographically distributed business user teams, and work with technical support teams to resolve technical issues and problems.
• Enable supplier registration process and tasks by proactively coordinating end-to-end, maintain supplier records, and related documentation as current.
• Act to validate purchase requisitions for accuracy, completion, required approvals and compliance with policy.
• Support data preparation, analysis, and monitoring of metrics to help observe process performance and health, and participate in feedback forums, and insight-led improvements.
• Document and maintain SOPs, process documents, and support communication channels, and content management.

Required Skills and Experience :

• 3-5 years of work experience in Procurement.
• Graduate degree, or equivalent experience, preferably in a Finance, Business, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with SAP S4 HANA, SAP, Microsoft Suit Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and BI tools).
• Role and activities would suit someone with excellent understanding of Purchase Orders and P2P processes, and familiar or having directly performed AP processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and strong collaboration skills.

"Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• Experience supporting Purchases to Pay for a technology company.
• Procurement business processes improvements.