Senior Procurement Specialist - Vietnam - 34872
Technology and Engineering - Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Search new products, innovations and suppliers in the market.
- Source services and goods of all company needs.
- Negotiation with suppliers.
- Consolidation, reduction and possible rationalization of supplier base.
- Complete vendor management initiatives that deliver and demonstrate cost leadership as identified by business.
- Integrate with Global agreements where possible and develop regional and local agreements where applicable.
- Evaluate and improve vendor performance, including vendor established wellness plans, measurements and consequences.
- Implement scorecards and business reviews for selected vendors and share results with internal stakeholders and teams.
- Elaborate KPIs, SLAs
- Do background check in the vendor selection process and guarantee that proper vendor due diligence is done before selecting a Vendor
- Extract database from the available purchasing system to create reports or extra controls when needed.
- Establish a vendor development plan when opportunity exits
- Keep updated industry market research including, major trends, cost drivers, competitive landscape, and future vision in order to develop vendor categories
- Minimize exposure and risk to Nielsen.
- Leads cost savings initiatives.
Requirements:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Strong analytical skills. Ability to analyze data, spot trends and identify opportunities.
- Subject matter expertise in Sourcing and Procurement methodologies and functions.
- Experience in Purchasing systems.
- Excellent organizational, communication and negotiation skills
- Must be able to work within a team, including virtual teams and foster a team environment
- Attention to detail is a must.
- Ability to work with projects ensuring quality deliverables, effective communication and project risk analysis
- Be a creative problem solver
- Work under pressure, have a high sense of urgency
Key Accountabilities
- Review requisitions for goods and services and request vendor proposals.
- Create purchase orders and monitor approval process.
- Monitor shipments to ensure that goods come in on time, and in the event of problems trace shipments and follow up undelivered goods.
- Follow applicable laws, regulations and policies.
- Support approved purchase orders, notifies to supplier and internal clients.
- Coordinates with Finance and notifies vendors on invoice payments.
- Ensure purchase orders adhere to Company Policies, supplier agreements and contracts; reports any non-compliance.
- Identify opportunities to achieve efficiencies and improve processes.
- Contribute to consolidation, reduction and possible rationalization of supplier base.
- Manage purchasing systems.
- Support internal users in the purchasing process and system training
- Identify and execute category specific sourcing and vendor management initiatives designed to generate hard and soft cost savings.
- Track key vendor metrics including delivery dates, KPIs, on time performance, quality, etc.
- Ensure all contracts and associated vendors are in line with policies
- React to the ever changing business environment to minimize exposure to Nielsen including managing bankrupt vendors, mergers and acquisitions.
- Establish communication with internal and external stakeholders
- Local liaison of Travel Program.
- Support corporate Social Responsibility initiatives; specifically Nielsen’s Supplier Diversity and Sustainability programs
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:
- 3 years of progressive experience in Sourcing / Procurement
- Recommended Bachelor in Business Administration, Accounting or related fields
- Advance English spoken, written and understood
- Knowledge on value added tax regulation, preferable with withholding tax
- Experience in technology, telecommunications and contract manufacturing a plus
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About Nielsen:
Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. Our approach marries proprietary Nielsen data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. For more than 90 years Nielsen has provided data and analytics based on scientific rigor and innovation,continually developing new ways to answer the most important questions facing the media, advertising, retail and fast-moving consumer goods industries. An S&P 500 company, Nielsen has operations in over 100countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.
Job Type: Regular
Primary Location: Ho Chi Minh City,Ho Chi Minh
Secondary Locations: , , ,
Travel: No
