Procurement Associate

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Principal Accountabilities: 

• Manage and execute daily procurement transactions by managing requisitions, purchase orders, change orders and supplier validation.  Responsible for creating and analyzing data and presenting insights to business partners and internal and external stakeholders. Makes sure the procurement process will be followed and that is aligned accordingly to Americas and Corporate Policies.

• Manage direct spend to preferred suppliers while documenting exceptions and escalating as needed.

• Drive compliance to all INEOS agreements by reading/reviewing contractual language that includes pricing, payment terms, payment schedule and rate increases

• Makes sure there is a list of vendors catalogued as recommended for business relationships, based on quality, availability, reliability, professionalism, and ethical behavior of vendors. Ensures vendors will comply with INEOS Safety standards. 

• Responsible to get the most competitive costs for materials / services.

• Will have a strong relationship with the Operations, Maintenance and Project teams to make sure will have all what they need to comply with their budgets, with the best options (vendors) in the market.

• Makes sure the plant will have on time services and goods, complying with Quality and safety standards making audits to the vendors, will keep an eye on delivery times and determine resolutions where vendors cause major disruption in supply.

• Support Regional Initiatives.

Skills & Knowledge Required:

Education/Experience:

• Level of education & Experience in generalbachelor’s degreein Finance, Business or Supply Chain

• Minimum 2 years of business experience,1 year procurement experience.

• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Excel; must be able to articulate how you have used excel to manipulate and analyze data and provide insights 

• Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to summarize and present data 

• Strong analytical skills; experience reviewing data and analyzing trends

• Experience troubleshooting and identifying root cause 

Technical Skills:

• Negotiation and Management of Conflicts

• Planning and Resources Management

• Purchase process

• SAP System – Purchase Process Intermediate level at least.

• Communicate written and spoken and able to negotiate in English.

Competencies /Behavioral Skills:

• Experience in dealing with materials suppliers and service providers 

• Strong emphasis on Ethics.

• Detail-oriented with proven ability data management and accuracy. 

• Strong time management skills.

• Good communication skills necessary, especially for interaction with external suppliers.

• Interacts openly and honestly with others across the organization and externally

• Knows and complies with laws, rules,policiesand procedures

• Willingness to work in a service-oriented role.

• Emotional Intelligence.

• Problem Solving.

• Conflict Resolution.