Procurement Buyer II

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  Location

  (CHINA) and Shanghai

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  Job Reference

  20952

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  Functional Area/Experience

  Business, Accounting & Finance / 2 Years

Job Description & Qualifications

The Indirect CoE Sourcing Buyer manages all strategic activities related to indirect spend, including but not limited to:  

• Identifies and drives saving opportunities, consumption reduction and value engineering projects through negotiations.
• Conducts Auctions for goods and services, ensuring best value offering to business. 
• Revisits agreed terms with existing suppliers to improve productity and working capital. He/She implements new deals and identifies new saving opportunities.
• Developing and implementing the Annual Operating Plan together with the Business and the Commodity Strategic Team
• Create and apply strategically the Category Cards for the supported sites/countries.
• Drives BAE execution in strong colboration with the business partner and the other stakeholders.
• Engages in stakeholder & requisitioner communication aiming to improve understanding of indirect procurement processes and tools.
• Supports implementation of automation opportunities for the assigned sites.
• Maintains a strong collaboration with the Procurement Buyer to ensure common target achievement. 
• The Sourcing Buyer will ensure all tasks are carried out in line with indirect procurement policy and strategy.

Autonomy and decision-making responsibility

Strategic implications

• Communicates clearly; balances listening and speaking; easy to approach
• Dedicated to meet expectations and requirements of internal customers. 
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with internal customers, suppliers and all the Indirect CoE members
• Good decision-making, uses analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment in making sound decisions.
• Ability to work in matrix environment

External & internal contacts

• Regional Procurement Organization
• SBGs ISC/SBU requisitioners and newly integrated Businesses 
• Functional Transformation Team organization
• Regional and global suppliers
• CST/SBG/SBU Procurement Leaders

Provides leadership in areas of servicing internal and external customers
Pro-active approach in implementing Honeywell initiatives
Acknowledge and implement Honeywell's 9 Behaviours in the day to day activity

Specific competences required

• Technical knowledge of Procurement/sourcing
• Planning, negotiations, and agreements/contract management
• English is required
• Proficiency of English is a plus 
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a purchasing environment 
• Microsoft Office skills