Junior Buyer

Why This Role Matters:

The role is responsible for managing end-to-end transactional buying and sourcing activities, ensuring timely allocation to suppliers within the agreed service levels. It involves analyzing requisitions, enforcing supplier compliance, conducting bidding or sourcing activities, and securing the best price, delivery, and terms for non-contracted items. The position also ensures accuracy in purchase orders, monitors order status, and maintains compliance with company policies and procurement guidelines. Additionally, it contributes to process efficiency by identifying non-value-added tasks and supporting continuous improvement within procurement operations.

What You'll Do:

• You process purchasing requests and appropriately allocate them to suppliers within required service level agreements, in accordance with established policies, SOPs, and SWIs, across designated procurement commodities.
• You ensure compliance with the company spend policy.
• You ensure products and services are assigned UNSPSC codes in alignment with regional and global requirements.
• You complete first-line issue resolution by engaging stakeholders and suppliers, and escalating to identified groups when necessary.
• You manage the sourcing process by:
• You analyze requisitions.
• You enforce the preferred supplier compliance strategy.
• You source according to the commodity-driven supplier list.
• You obtain the best price, delivery, and terms for non-contracted items.
• You complete order follow-up tasks, including purchase order acknowledgements, order monitoring and close-out, blocked invoice resolution, and handling non-fulfilled orders.
• You coordinate catalog information in the SRM system.
• You direct shopping carts to frame contracts and catalogs where available.
• You actively participate in continuous improvement initiatives.

What We're Looking For

• You must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in Finance/Accountancy/Business or any related major.
• You must have 1-3years of experience in Procurement (sourcing, evaluating bids, proven ability to correctly translate and process customer requests)
• Preferably, you must have negotiation experience, International Logistics expertise, Supplier Management with foreign incoterms, and experience working in multinational companies.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• You must have previous experience with SAP-ERP, SRM, CRM, or a comparable system
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• You have the ability to follow procedures and sequential processes
• You must have critical thinking skills to analyze/review orders and drive process efficiencies
• You are a team player and have strong interpersonal skills
• You have proven ability to work on your own initiative.
• You are amenable to report onsite 2x a week in BGC, Taguig City.
• You are willing to work on a mid-shift schedule.

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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 48 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate

Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.