Sourcing Operations Buyer Associate

Job description / Role

About Us:

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Role Summary:

- This role will be solely responsible for indirect vendor management and act as the focal point of contacts for the vendors and GE businesses on supplier relations.
- Responsible for the operations of the W2W procurement process to include vendor data collection, requisition/PO creation, and Holds resolution.

Essential Responsibilities:

Supplier Set-up
- Responsible for Onboarding and Offboarding all indirect suppliers to the respective systems
- Vendor data maintenance and clean-up including activating and deactivating indirect suppliers in the system including Non- PO vendors.
- Responsible for payment terms alignment and latter than logic validation, implementation and communication.

Supplier Relationship
- Support supplier quality and delivery performance, manage resolution to ensure business needs are met and ensure suppliers are operating within the company's compliance requirements.
- Facilitate communication between suppliers and internal teams.
- Reinforcing NPNP Policy and Invoice Submission Rules
- Follow up on vendors with Debit balances, Advance payment and for refund for double payments.

Operation Processing
- Vet purchase requisitions created prior to PO being created and implement purchase contracts/supply agreements and strategies that comply with company objectives
- Communicate the information of the PO to the supplier and internal users.
- In charge of PO Routing, Re-opening PO, Cancelling and Closing of POs relating to indirect vendors.
- Responsible for initiating Urgent Payment Requests(UPR), CRM Immediate pay, Prepayment/Advance requests and Special Handling Forms relating to Indirect PO Vendors.

Hold Issue Resolution
- Responsible for resolving Holds relating to Price variance, Quantity issues, PO(Invalid/Closed/Wrong) issues, Receiving issues and vendor set-up among others indirect related issues
- Identify the root causes of the various Holds and working with relevant teams to come up with solutions and implement to reduce the Hold issues.

GRNI Resolution
- Reviewing weekly GRNI Reports
- Ensure any aged or about to age GRNI has clear follow up plan in accordance to GRNI Global SOP for:
- Following for Missing invoice or
- Correct receiving or
- Returning Over receipts.

Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Minimum Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution is required
- At least 3 years' experience in a sourcing role

Desired Characteristics:

Competencies:

- Demonstrated ability to work with internal and external customers
- Strong project management skills
- Compliance & controllership mindset
- Numerate with a good eye for detail
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong oral, communication and inter personal skills
- Cross functional and international team experience
- Professional style when dealing with business clients
- Knowledge of English, additional languages knowledge is a preference

Locations: Saudi Arabia; Riyadh

About the Company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.

GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.