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Job posting end date: 04 July 2023
MIN Project Buyer, MINERALS DIVISION
The selected person will work on Procurement Operations in Minerals Business Line in collaboration with Procurement Team. The purpose of this role is to ensure the correct creation of Purchase Orders, following and expedite the Orders. to ensure on time arrival (Supplier)
The role supports the Procurement area efforts for Minerals BA, Global Supply Chain and Procurement Excellence. This position works closely to, Delivery Projects and department and Product Lines being responsible for ensuring that suppliers are meeting all requirements according to the project and/or product specifications.
More specifically you will be responsible for:
Job Duties And Responsibilities
Business Partnering
Requirements And Experience
- 3-5 years experience as Procurement Operations required.
- Strong knowledge of business tools (Sievo, Jaggaer, ERP in SRM, SAP, Microsoft office products Outlook, Office, Excel, PPT)
- Able to read drawings, ITPs, specification and other international technical codes as required.
- Written and oral communication skills required combined with accuracy and attention to details.
- Be organized, detail oriented, and capable of handling personal interactions with all departments and suppliers. Work on assignments with little supervision.
- Advanced English is required (written speech and reading).
- Must be familiar with Procurement Process.
- Experience in construction /heavy equipment industry preferred.
- Possess visual acuity to support reading documents, for computer work and quality instruments.
- Valid passport and drivers license both required. Possible domestic and international travel.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural and multi-language atmosphere.
- Possess great communication and teamwork skills.
- Monitoring suppliers within the projects and categories agreed with the operational procurement teams, to assist day-to-day operational procurement success.
- Obtain and analyze quotes for new equipment, components and/or tools.
- Contract and pricing negotiations for all new projects, equipments components and/or tool.
- Preparing and leading negotiations as well as establishing price/conditions-agreements
- Negotiating Terms & Condition, payment terms
- Issue Purchase Orders for all new Projects to the award suppliers.
- Follow up the development of new projects with Suppliers and provide support to the project team with the new projects or procurement needs from each business line.
- Localization requirements identification, and support to meet the requirements
- Supplier intelligence, budgetary volume projections, capacity monitoring, price development and projections.
- Claims management monitoring prior to handoff
- Communicate and coordinate all the purchasing activities with the project manager.
- Analysis and monthly report of each project purchasing index.
- TCP (total cost of procurement) management of strategic suppliers.
- Document control and IP management
- Commercial and Ethical compliance to policies and applicable laws.
- Strong interface to BU Logistics teams
- Understanding customer needs and providing optimum solutions,
- Establishing supplier strategy.
- Other related and associated procurement support projects and duties.
- Purchase to Pay process on time invoice payment.
The success in this position is measured by key Quality KPIs:
- Savings
- On-time-delivery and lead-times
- Quality costs
- Supplier Payment term
- Supplier sustainability incl. Supplier Code of conduct coverage
- Other procurement KPIs
To succeed
To be successful in this challenging business line focused role you should have:
- Vision and understanding on what good looks like in Tier-1 Procurement
- Strong communication skills, adequately addressing all internal & external stakeholders.
- Enjoys working in a cross-functional and multi-cultural environment - Manage interaction with various cultures
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Be self-directed and motivated.
- Take initiative to identify and anticipate customer needs and make recommendations for implementation.
- Ability to read literature and listen to other employees
- Ability to interact/influence multiple functions globally, the ability to work in a team atmosphere and in a multi-cultural / multi-language atmosphere
- Strong sense of urgency, personal ownership of the position, and willingness to go beyond job boundaries
- Embraces change with a strong desire to continuously improve the business process
- Highly motivated individual with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Prepare and send reports of key performance indicators to Management and utilize the results to drive strategic direction and process improvement.
- Demonstrates cooperative team effort within the workgroup. Works effectively with other groups and departments, internal or external. Demonstrates respect for others and acts in an appropriate and professional manner.
Metso is a frontrunner in providing sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. By helping our customers increase their productivity, improve their energy and water efficiency and environmental performance with our process and product expertise, we are the partner for positive change.
Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Metso employs over 16, 000 people in close to 50 countries and sales for 2022 were about EUR 5.3 billion. The company is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki. metso.com, twitter.com/metsoofficial
