Indirect Purchasing Associate

Our search for better is changing the lives of our customers. It’s changing the careers of our people too - creating new challenges and opportunities all the time. We’re a business that never stands still. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Indirect Purchasing Associate - P2P and you won’t either.

**About Role**

As an **Indirect Purchasing Associate - P2P** **in our **new APAC Global Business Services Centre (GBS)**, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in driving compliance and setting the standard for accuracy and governance. The Gatekeeper role will support the Purchasing Support Team Leader delivering excellence by providing quality support to our stakeholders, whilst ensuring quality, cost competitiveness, compliance and company purchasing guidance.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Purchasing support in line with the Purchasing Policy supporting the business obtaining 3 competitive vendor quotes (less than 100K) when required
- Support the development and maintenance of Catalogues, in line with supplier contracts
- Understand all policies and procedures of the P2P area
- Understand the E2E purchase process (requisitions, PO´s, Invoice reconciliations, contracts)
- Understanding of automation to automate the repetitive tasks
- Process knowledge and improvements
- Engaging with Procurement (large value - more than 100K)
- Global controls for Vendor Changes (e.g. - bank account verification) Compliance to company´s policies and procedures
- Working with stakeholders to improve PR/PO accuracy
- Recommendation of using Preferred Supplier
- Ensuring new vendor requests are accurate and are challenged in line with the PSL
- Ensure Customer Satisfaction (KPI/survey)
- Support Master Data Management on the cleansing of vendor (indirect)

In this role you will be collaborating with various stakeholders such as the Global Procurement, Business Stakeholders, suppliers and Finance Department across the business including our other GBS teams in Lisbon and Bogota, CoE’s as well as our Corporate, Commercial and Market teams.

Our APAC GBS supports a hybrid working approach. You will be supporting markets in multiple time zones and some flexibility around working hours will be needed.

You will be joining a newly formed Global Business Services team, with opportunities to grow, within PTP or wider finance functions.

**About You**

To be successful you will have:

- A minimum 1-2 years' relevant experience
- Experience working on SAP is valuable
- Excel knowledge
- Problem solving mindset
- Good communication skills
- Attention to details
- Customer driven and constructive
- Knowledge of Purchasing and Catalogue maintenance knowledge
- Previous experience on a Shared Services environment (not mandatory)
- A customer-first mindset to fit with our “forever caring” brand

**Language**
- Good written and spoken English is essential
- A proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean and/or Thai as well as other Asian languages will be an advantage

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**Qualifications/Education**
- Finance qualification is preferred

Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You’ll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. You’ll be encouraged and supported to make things happen, too. It can be challenging. But, as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it’ll be worth it.

This is stepping up to a challenge.

This is work that’ll move you.

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