Purchase Associate - Consumables, Safety & Nautical

About Us:

Maersk is a global leader in integrated logistics and have been industry pioneers for over a century. Through innovation and transformation we are redefining the boundaries of possibility continuously setting new standards for efficiency sustainability and excellence.

At Maersk we believe in the power of diversity collaboration and continuous learning and we work hard to ensure that the people in our organisation reflect and understand the customers we exist to serve.

With over 100000 employees across 130 countries we work together to shape the future of global trade and logistics.

Join us as we harness cutting-edge technologies and unlock opportunities on a global scale. Together lets sail towards a brighter more sustainable future with Maersk.

Key responsibilities

• You will have an end-to-end responsibility accountability and handling entire demand to delivery process for allocated set of Maersk Line vessels and ensure the 4R Principle Right price Right Place Right Time and Right Quantity.

• Running the RFQ process with non-contracted suppliers for optimal deliveries.

• Follow Procure to Pay process (PTP) for timely payments to all vendors and handle invoices with discrepancies.

• Support Stakeholders with technical organizations through daily interactions and addressing their concerns in a timely manner.

• To be familiar with IT platform / system operation to be able to do the assigned operational tasks efficiently.

• Support Senior Buyers in Clean-up and Housekeeping activity.

• Support with feedback and learnings towards assigned team Initiatives around Category Strategies. Should be keen on learning and acquiring right skill set.

• Support with implementing automation as part of the Digital Agenda.

• Support Senior colleagues with Supplier Performance Management tasks.

• Share inputs with Master data teams to optimize back-end data quality.

• Assist Senior colleagues with the transactional support around Team initiatives & drives.

Skills needed:

• Demonstrate excellent management skills in planning problem solving decision-making delegation and communication.

• Excellent analytical skills - Collecting analyzing and presenting data.

• Developing and maintaining cooperative effective productive and tactful working relationships with Internal and external stakeholders and others contacted in the course of the work.

• Good understanding of procurement practices and principles.

• Team player with problem solving abilities and a drive for results.

• Good understanding of basic finance and accounting principles to control budget and costs.

• Experience in the marine industry is a plus

Qualification:

• A bachelors degree in business supply chain management or a related field. A masters degree may be an added advantage.

• Demonstrated expertise with at least 2-4 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management preferably within a similar industry

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race colour gender sex age religion creed national origin ancestry citizenship marital status sexual orientation physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy or parental leave veteran status gender identity genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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