Associate Procurement Job Description
Associate procurement
provides training and support to internal business partners on procurement processes, policies and the Coupa procurement platform.
Associate Procurement Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Develop your industry expertise through market research, optimized use of market / services within your procurement category to fulfil business needs
Previous Procurement experience, including strategy, sourcing & contracting (including drafting), preferably within a Marketing or Digital Marketing category
Determine if request is procurement application and or process question or problem If question, provide how do I walk through application or status support
Working knowledge of procurement and accounts payable applications supported
Working knowledge of ORACLE application or alternative procurement and transactions to support client supplier
Working knowledge of procurement best practices, Inventory processes and controls
Manages supplier compliance with corporate procurement standards and policies
Manages the day-to-day procurement of global/regional category function, providing expertise, encouraging and ensuring cross-functional teamwork, aligning work processes in order to achieve high performance standards, meet established targets and objectives in a motivated work environment
Proactively engage in discussions to improve service and processes for the stakeholders and Procurement
Drafts the vendor SOW using predefined templates and the Services Procurement System
Associate Procurement Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Associate Procurement
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ACE, CPSM, CPM, AS9100, MCIPS, UN, APICS, IACCM, PMP, C.P.M
Education for Associate Procurement
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the associate procurement job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Business, Engineering, Business/Administration, Supply Chain Management, Education, Finance, MBA, Management, Technical, Associates
Skills for Associate Procurement
Desired skills for associate procurement include:
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EProcurement platform being implemented
Procurement methods
Technologies and processes
Ambiguity
Complexity
Tactics and ability to function effectively in the face of volatility
Uncertainty
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Desired experience for associate procurement includes:
Minimum 2 years relevant work experience or equivalent
Experience with PeopleSoft Financials or similar ERP system preferred
Must have knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
Must be able to pay strong attention to detail and ability to communicate effectively
Graduate of Bachelor of Laws or earned units in law
Will insure quality and completeness of work in a safe and timely manner insuring areas worked are clean, neat and ready for Customers’ needs when complete
Associate Procurement Examples
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Associate Procurement Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for an associate procurement. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for associate procurement
- Coordinate with Commercial team and Scheduler to forecast and develop a procurement schedule for the project
- Utilize appropriate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for procurement planning & control
- Maintain procurement files
- Ensure security of equipment and materials during the procurement cycle
- Advanced negotiation, communication and influencing skills
- Excellent self-organisation skills – detailed planning skills and management of workload pipeline which may contain conflicting priorities
- Team working – cross business and multi-functional teams
- Assist in the development and implementation of supplier objectives
- Demonstrated ability to work collectively with the Strategic Sourcing network, other enabling functions, and other manufacturing
- Conduct problem determination for clients question to determine appropriate answer or status
Qualifications for associate procurement
- Dexterity to operate office equipment as required by the position
- Ability to communicate well with all levels of staff, internal management clients
- Extract monthly spend of P Card usage, Input and validate spend data using Compliance tool
- Maintain the YTD PCARD spend, CO- Ordinate with Users and Primary Manager for any deviations observed
- Minimum 6 months of finance and accounting experience
- 5+ years experience, with the above outlined blend of corporate line management and advisory experience in the UK and Europe
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Our growing company is looking for an associate procurement. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for associate procurement
- Shutdown Schedules
- Checks incoming requests and identifies issues with the request, working with the requester to obtain a correction
- Focuses on sourcing activities related to multiple categories
- Providing support in expediting material deliveries and resolving invoicing issues
- Providing assistance with contract administration activities
- Providing assistance with accounts payable activities
- Actively contribute to the development and implementation of sourcing strategies for R&D clinical services
- Lead and support the supplier selection process, including the selection of transactional and preferred vendors, for designated studies, programs and/or services
- Proactively support supplier management activities such as issue resolution, performance trending, and supplier governance
- Proactively support clinical services category assessment teams to ensure that all potential opportunities for operational, quality, and financial synergies are identified, tracked, and implemented
Qualifications for associate procurement
- Fluency in English and additional European language such as French and/or German
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, science, or engineering
- Computer applications including Microsoft Office, Excel, and other software experience
- Ability and willingness to travel and work extended hours as needed
- You will work on Competitive Event proposals from incumbent vendors and assist the business in on-boarding new vendors including completing risk assessments
- Minimum five years’ experience in Supply Chain Management is required
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of associate procurement. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for associate procurement
- Perform regular spend analysis and develop savings recommendations for Strategic Procurement Managers
- Perform value analysis within the category or commodity to support procurement decisions
- Assist with yearly budget preparation for cost centers within Procurement organization
- Work with Senior Director of Finance for the College of Osteopathic Medicine on special projects & prepare Excel spreadsheets as needed for quarterly reports
- Create Requisitions & scan and upload requisitions to database
- Create & distribute purchase orders (faxing, e-mailing to end-user and/or accounts payable
- Discuss defective or unacceptable new goods or services with client, vendors and others to determine cause of problem and take corrective and preventative action
- Help to lower the cost and secure agreements
- Ensure that health, safety and environment procedures are followed and are compliant
- Submit equipment data sheets, drawings and specifications for client approval as required
Qualifications for associate procurement
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations management, business management or a closely related discipline is required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or similar field preferred
- 2-5 years of general pool product experience preferred
- ISM Certification and/or courses desirable
- Ability and willingness to work overtime as required to meet project deadlines
- Ability to travel on occasion domestically and internationally
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of associate procurement. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for associate procurement
- Review and verify installation of equipment and material
- Build and develop relationships with key suppliers and subcontractors
- Assist department in developing and implementing purchasing strategies for products
- Manage a variety of inventory levels, research history of orders and past usages
- Manage contract approvals
- Manage CDAs and SCOCs
- Identify new vendors
- Identify new materials
- Vendor order placements
- Manager and track POs
Qualifications for associate procurement
- Proficiency using complete Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, ) and general PC skills
- Transferable skill set for preparation and executing of commercial and internal client negotiations
- Requires Bachelors or Master Degree or University Degree or equivalent
- Must have experience in Procure to order/pay process
- Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in P2O/P, with 6 to 8 years’ overall experience
- Must have excellent communications and customer service skills
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Our growing company is looking for an associate procurement. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for associate procurement
- Leads cross-functional sourcing teams (key manufacturing support functions) to execute sourcing projects
- Analyze and evaluate vendor performance data, leverage best practices and construct and develop improvement programs as required
- Ensure availability of optimal analytical tools for management and user community to conduct knowledge and best practices
- Develop trending and forecasting models to track and validate various key performance measurements by business segment and category of spend
- Assist in the development of acquisition and plans and/or strategies including Business Case Analysis, Return on Investments modeling, Estimated Lifecycle Costing, Analysis of Alternatives, Contract SLA Analysis and Acquisition justifications
- Release purchase requistion from ASCP
- Generate the PDF of auto-approved PO
- Create Manual PO
- Send PO to Supplier
- Follow up PO approval
Qualifications for associate procurement
- Computer skills, , strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Must be highly motivated, detailed oriented, organized and willing to work on specialized task
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business or supply chain field
- Knowledge of contract negotiation and sourcing methodologies
- Expertise/understanding of full cycle strategic sourcing (5 - 7) step strategic sourcing methodology with indirect categories
- Minimum of 10 years in biotechnology/ pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience