Purchasing Specialist
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Job Location:
Taguig - Philippines
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare with leading businesses and products in diagnostics medical devices nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 113000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Position Summary
Point-of-care diagnostics is a growing and dynamic industry helping to improve clinical and economic outcomesglobally. Abbott brings a variety of expert viewpoints on new innovations insights and impacts that are shaping thefuture of diagnostics around the world.
GBS has a global accountability to deliver an exceptional customer experience and create business value throughcompliance standardization and data analytics. The GBS group fosters a collaborative team focused and winningenvironment where employees are accountable and encouraged to develop themselves
The Purchasing Specialist is responsible for carrying out the daily purchasing processes for Abbott Rapid Dx NorthAmerica or Abbott Rapid Dx LLC ensuring the timely and efficient procurement of company materials and purchasing team is key to ensuring continued supply of our products relationship management with ourvendors and that all processes and objectives are implemented efficiently and timely and support the overall GBSvision.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Advance perform the daily purchasing processes for stocked items (with an MRP evaluation as needed) nonstocked items capital equipment and services
- Review and maintain purchasing contingencies to ensure continued supply of product
- Ensure contractual obligations are implemented maintained and compliant
- Participate in daily team meetings to address open tasks issues and projects and ensure actions are beingtaken to ensure KPIs are met
- Maintenance of the shared purchasing mailbox shared web portal for communicating with off-sitewarehouses.
- Manages incoming urgent requests work with warehouse sales marketing transport Masterdataplanning finance and customer service.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships and work effectively with internal and external customers
- Contribute to the Customer Experience ensuring delivery of acceptable quality goods and services on-time
- Resolve disputes or complaints between requestors and vendors
- Represent Purchasing in all product launch initiatives
- Record and manage actions in relation to supplier incidents
- Participate in quarterly supplier reviews and ensure corrective actions are implemented
- Participate in Projects in the area of the responsibility such as process improvement and implementation
- Produce daily and monthly reports/metrics
- Comply with applicable antitrust and other purchasing-related laws and regulations including FederalAcquisition Regulations for government contracts.
- Communicate the importance of the Quality System to all employees and report on its effectiveness
- Execute applicable Quality System processes
- Other duties as assigned by the immediate superior
Key Position Competencies
- Functional / Technical skills
- Communicates Effectively
- Time Management
- Agile Learner
- Results Driven
Minimum Qualifications
- Must have experience working with SAP or other ERP/MRP system
- Must be a self-starter with the ability to work in a fast-changing environment
- Must have strong business analytic skills
- Must have a desire for achieving excellence in customer satisfaction and support service delivery
- Must be a team player with high initiative and energy with the ability to work cross-functionally and driveprocess and projects
- Must be proficient in MS Office Suite
Education and Experience
- Bachelors Degree (Supply Chain Business Finance Industrial Engineer is preferred) or 3-5 years relevantexperience in a purchasing organization required
- Experience with Lean Six Sigma or Business Management concepts preferred
- Certification from APICS or equivalent preferred
The base pay for this position is
N/AIn specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Supply Chain
DIVISION:
RMDx Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics
LOCATION:
Philippines > Taguig City : Five/Neo Building
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Not specified
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Purchasing
- Procurement
- EDI
- HR Sourcing
- Microsoft Outlook
- Pivot tables
- SAP
- Microsoft Excel
- ERP Systems
- negotiation
- Contracts
About Company
WHO WE ARE CREATING LIFE-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY From removing the regular pain of fingersticks as people manage their diabetes to connecting patients to doctors with real-time information monitoring their hearts, from easing chronic pain and movement disorders to testing half the world’s ... View more
