Senior Procurement Specialist

inDrive

inDrive

Operations
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Posted on Nov 9, 2024

Senior Procurement Specialist

Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

  • Hybrid
  • Full-time
  • Senior

As a Senior Procurement Specialist you will be responsible for overseeing the procurement process and managing the full lifecycle of purchasing activities for goods and services, from sourcing suppliers, negotiation to management of contracts with suppliers

Responsibilities

  • Technically coordinate the purchasing activities within the organization
  • Proceed Sourcing activities as a bid/tender process
  • Collaborate with all stakeholders to gather requirements and define process objectives and purchasing plans
  • Follow procurement and contract strategy: organize and gather market knowledge, propose advanced actions plan to benefit from market opportunities
  • Implementing, and controlling contract and price negotiations to supply to the profitability of the company
  • Follow procurement and contract procedures in the company and its subsidiaries
  • Knowledge of categories such as Marketing, all types (Branding, Media is essential)
  • Coordinate and review Purchase Request for further approving and releasing PO
  • KYC additional check before realeasing PO
  • Coordinate benchmarking processes to ensure that Initiators align with procurement policies and procedures
  • Proceed the tenders/bids (Sourcing activities) align with procurement policies and procedures
  • Participate in negotiation process with Suppliers during Sourcing process (tender/bid)
  • Coordination of the contract with responsible departments (treasury, legal, IP, data protection, accounting, technical and other specialists)
  • Supplier search based on category and location upon request of a Stakeholder
  • Control of terms of contract approval with weekly provision of report to company
  • Holding meetings and facilitation with responsible departments and contract initiators
  • Provide consultation and management of P2P process in ERP and CLM system to Stakeholders
  • Organization of signing contracts, including through EDI
  • Implementation the register of contracts: analysis, systematization and extraction of statistical data
  • Management and control of Vendor Master Data in ERP system to proceed a payment
  • Implementation a database of all suppliers by their categories
  • Implementation a database of all contract duration and notification of Initiators to prolong or terminate a contract
  • Manage signing process of all type of contracts to align with signing policy
  • Implement instruction and further updates of Vendor Master Data management

Qualifications

  • Procurement operation and Sourcing flow coverage in LATAM region
  • Previous experience no less than 3-5 years as Procurement Specialist/Senior Procurement Specialist/Buyer in international company
  • English language B2 and above
  • Spanish language (nice to have)
  • Prior knowledge of programs like ERP and CLM
  • Strong skills in commercial affairs, negotiation, procurement operation flow and contract management