IBM Recruitment Drive | Hiring Procurement Professional – Fresher / Experienced

Qualifications

• Any Graduate with 0 to 1 years of relevant experience in Customer Support, Inquiry Management/ Freshers.
• Problem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyses information skilfully.
• Customer Service – Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments.
• Interpersonal Skills – Maintains confidentiality; Listens to others without interrupting.
• Verbal Communication – Excellent verbal communication skills required. Needs to talk with the Supplier/Client over phone/email as and when required. Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions.
• Written Communication – Writes clearly and informatively; Able to read and interpret written information.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise:

• Skills required – Someone who possesses the following at a minimum: strong communication skills both written and verbal, ability to multi task, Client facing skills, strong organization skills, attention to detail, Good presentation skills & procurement background

Your Roles and Responsibilities:-

As a Procurement Operations Buyer, you would be supporting procurement of Europe client. You would be responsible for managing customer requests along with interfacing with clients and suppliers for commodities. A major part of being an operations buyer would be to handle client procurement requests and follow up on deliveries

• Receives PR and Converts to Purchase Orders.
• Indirect Procurement Purchasing activity and support Sourcing team.
• Support queries from Client /stakeholder, internal IBM.
• Support Client on enabling contracts and content.
• Transmits POs to suppliers and Expedites delivery when needed/requested.
• Manages goods/services claims and escalation point for customer queries.
• Amends or closes Purchase Orders, Reporting activity.
• Handle queries received from Business Requestors, Suppliers, Procurement Managers and from Accounts payable.
• Create reports on Open PO, Blanket PO expiration report, Contract’s Expiration report and other reports in the required format with good quality.
• Maintain updated records on processed transactions.
• Able to manage priorities, deadlines and tasks in order to meet deadlines and accomplish goals; Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks.
• Good interpersonal interaction and able to work well with the team and Client stakeholders.
• Positive Attitude, Planning, Curiosity, Self-discipline, Ability to work in Rotational Shift.
• Assumes additional responsibilities as assigned.