Global Procurement Senior Buyer

Duties & Responsibilities:

Update and cleanse price lists on real time basis. SAP codes/description to be updated/cleansed.

• Solicit Quotation from suppliers and prepare bid comparison for approval.

• Lead dispute resolution regarding material supply, quality issues, invoice and payment issues

• Prepare monthly supplier score card for quality and delivery vs. plan. Share benchmarking against industry / market standards.

• Support in developing new suppliers.

• Represent GP with Marketing/Sales/Supply Chain for all innovation and productivity projects.

• Support Category negotiations and manage contracts with suppliers.

• Create and Maintain SAP contracts.

• Tracking, Reporting and uploading monthly productivity projects in relevant tool.

• Evaluate & evolve sourcing strategy based on changing market conditions and provide inputs during strategic sourcing activities, including internal and external analysis and negotiations.

• Keep close tracking of productivity pipeline to cover any risks to the plan.

• Support commodity reporting; maintain price & inflation/deflation database including internal and external data.

• Supplier liaison for supplier quality assurance program

• Support the preparation and submission of Procurement Quarterly submissions, Annual Operating Plans and PepsiCo Strategic Plan (PSP).

• Support developing reports, analysis for Corrugate and other packaging.

Job Requirements:

• Relevant bachelor's degree.

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in direct category Sourcing (Preferred experience in Corrugates & Flexible packaging) in FMCG.

• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.

• High financial acumen.

• Comprehensive experience with data analysis using tools like Excel, Access & SAP.

• Initiative-taking and ability to manage multiple assignments.