Local Procurement Agent (m/f/d)
$40,000–$65,000 year
HybridRome, Lazio, Italy
Rome, Lazio, ItalyHybridFull Time$40,000–$65,000 yearAssociates DegreeEnterprise
Full TimeAssociates DegreeEnterprise
Job Summary
Manage local stakeholder relationships and act as the single point of contact for indirect procurement requests. Cover local demands for indirects, identify suppliers, and maintain expertise about local markets. Connect to central category teams and provide market information to global and regional groups. Execute source-to-contract and purchase-to-pay activities for local categories, including contract implementation and supplier management. Represent country-specific requirements to the central procurement team and foster local adherence to procurement processes and standards.
Required Qualifications
- Service orientation and 'get the job done' mindset
- Collaboration skills with local business stakeholders and central proc. team
- Basic but broad category expertise with focus on local categories
- Sourcing and operational buying expertise
- Passion for functional excellence
- Language and cultural support as interface between central procurement and local business
- Execute S2C, contract and supplier management activities for local categories in local language, if required
- Execute P2O activities, if not covered by central team
- Identify local suppliers and maintain expertise about local markets
- Provide market information to central/global and aligned/ regional category teams, if required
- Represent country specific requirements in the central procurement ('voice of country')
- Follow-up and report on the implementation of agreed procurement policies and programs in the country
- Provide guidance and foster local adherence to Indirect procurement processes & standards
Desired Qualifications
- Acts as Single point of contact for local stakeholders for the area of Indirect procurement demands
- Provides market support for all purchase category types, channels requests related to global categories correctly, supports with local know-how for regional & global categories if required and is responsible for the whole Source to Contract and Purchase to Pay process for local purchase categories
- Communicates 'local demands/specialities' to the global Indirects team
- Implements locally relevant indirect procurement processes and standards
- Acts as the local 'go to' person regarding all questions on procurement tools, processes and directives
- Acts as an interface between central procurement and local business
- Manages local stakeholder relationships and acts as single point of contact for indirect procurement requests
- Covers local demands for indirects
- Connects to central category teams
- Provides language and cultural support as interface between central procurement and local business
- Supports contract implementation
- Represents country specific requirements in the central procurement ('voice of country')
- Provides guidance and fosters local adherence to Indirect procurement processes & standards
- Follows-up and reports on the implementation of agreed procurement policies and programs in the country
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