- Deliver the global Purchasing Support Group (PSG) services with an excellent manner.
- Receiving agreement request from the clients, review the request, selecting the approved format for the agreement, initiating the agreement with supplier.
- Coordinate with Buyers, Suppliers, and other Stakeholders to get necessary information for agreement execution.
- Able to understand and derive evolving data elements from Contracts, Changes in Agreements based on Authority Guideline.
- Negotiating with the supplier based on Approved Authority Guidelines.
- Able to understand scope of work and facilitate subsequent discussion accordingly.
- A. Manage agreement workload and actively follows-up on outstanding items and approvals required to forward contracts for legal review, as necessary.
- Communicate with line of business/department partners about daily transactional matters
- Follow workflow procedures to ensure maximum efficiency.
- Completing tasks assigned by the supervisor, upholding the organizations values, and maintaining a high degree of professionalism with all stakeholders.
- Understand and execute redline management based on Authority Guideline.
- Coordinate and work with buyer, legal, stakeholder and supplier for timely execution and signoff of agreements.
- Participate in trade-off discussion with buyer, legal, stakeholder and supplier whenever necessary.
- Managing daily purchasing support activities, work and execute the assigned tasks, and ensure SLAs are adhered with high level of accuracy
- Manage relations with the stakeholders and be a customer advocate for all the assigned global purchasing support areas.
- Follow and Enforce company s Global Procurement Policy and procedures
- Understand the Kohler s Global Procurement Policy
- Enforce this across the business and stakeholders for Purchasing or related activities
- Standard Operating Process (SOP) Setup and Process Improvement
- Constantly search and seek out improvement of Purchasing Support processes and practices that eliminates non-value-added activity and incorporates relevant best practices
- Work effectively with all the concerned teams, functions
- Develop, Maintain, and enhance relations with the stakeholders. Understand all stakeholder/internal customer requirements
- Forecast growth opportunities, prepare roadmaps, and build capabilities for future readiness
- Be actively involved in global Purchasing Support enhancement projects
What we are looking for from your past experience
Experience requirement:
- 7+ years experience in purchasing & contract management preferably in Marketing, HR and Professional service industry.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strategic purchasing mindset and strong basic of contract management
- Good understanding of Master Service Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Amendments and Statement of work (SOW)
- Highly service-oriented, with exceptional interpersonal skills to facilitate communication with all levels of company management, across all business lines, and with suppliers.
- Very good presentation and Documentation skills.
