Contract - Senior Buyer

Contract-Senior Buyer

Position Summary:

The Senior Buyer is responsible for all procurement related activities and supplier management of services, software, materials, and supplies, and ensuring continuous and efficient processing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review, analyze, investigate, and resolve purchase requisition and contract issues
• Create and issue purchase orders from approved purchase requisitions
• Coordinate, review, verify, and approve new vendor on-boarding
• Provide training and day-to-day support on procurement systems, policy and processes for business unit and/or corporate staff involved in purchasing activities
• Manage and improve the Procure to Pay process ensuring training, policy development, executed documentation, data entry, submission, order expediting, change orders, receiving and reconciliation of complex system issues
• Assist in RFQ/RFP process
• Manage existing supplier base cost, quality, and delivery performance
• Establish and maintain meaningful supplier performance metrics in which to judge supplier value
• Follow and comply with the Procure to Pay Narrative and SOX processes set forth by GBT
• Primary point of contact for supplier communication and issue resolution related to purchase order, invoice, and receiving discrepancies
• Work closely with FP&A, Legal, Commercial, Clinical and Tech Ops on PO/PR related issues
• Assist in monthly contract master and purchase order reconciliations and updates
• Comply with company health and safety policies and procedures

Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree in Procurement, Finance, or related discipline
• Minimum of 2 years of related experience
• Biotech/Clinical Procurement experience, a plus
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and effective business communication skills
• Negotiation experience
• Familiarity with global procurement practices, contracts, laws and regulations
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams as well as the capacity to contribute consistently and positively in a high-paced, fast-changing and sometimes unpredictable environment
• Outstanding organizational and detailed oriented skills
• eProcurement system skills, with Zycus and NetSuite is a plus
• Proficient in Microsoft Office with a focus on analytical skills