Senior Buyer (Japanese Speaker)

Overall Job Purpose

This role deliver day-to-day purchasing operations to all business divisions across the globe, through established efficient and user-friendly purchasing processes and systems that provide spend transparency and help control costs.

We deliver purchasing services through the Purchasing Service Centers from requisition to purchase order based on state of the art e-purchasing tools including both user support (e.g. first level support, management of e-purchasing catalog), processing non-catalog requisitions and second level support for issue solving and master data management.

Scope & Portfolio


* Overall manages buying activities with responsibility depending on country / region scope:


* Organise and execute the purchase to pay process ensuring compliance with global, regional and local procedures and policies 


* Explore and capture internal demand; handle non-catalog requests 


* Actively drive the use of procurement catalog 


* Build good relationships with suppliers and internal customers 


* Oversee and / or use the support of the purchasing support roles 


* Team coordination and independent technical control of the assigned group as well as interdisciplinary coordination, control and quality assurance of the professional task completion


* Extended scope for decision-making within the given framework 


* Oversee and / or use the support of the purchasing support roles: 

Support role: 


* Provide administrative support to operational buying activities 


* Assist day-to-day activities within the purchasing organisation 


* Provide GET 1st level support, consulting and training; interface to 2nd level support

Key Tasks


* Execute and ensure procurement processes applying sourcing / purchasing / corporate / Business Partner policies


* Collect and maintain data and / or ensure data quality maintenance and reporting on rates, catalog, supplier data / performance, purchase order admin.


* Drive (execute) tactical purchasing process (non-catalog requisitions) and ensure day-to-day / admin support (request and analyze competitive bids (3 bids and 1 buy), select suppliers, quality, delivery terms, specs for goods / services)


* Ensure clarification of outstanding receipt of order confirmation, invoices, delivery dates, rejection / change of purchase orders


* Catalog contracts negotiation with suppliers


* Support preparation and monitoring of tenders, negotiations and supplier management


* Analyze and evaluate supplier bids, tenders, proposals, or quotations; negotiate prices and delivery conditions; and commit to purchases (within established limits of authority) with terms that are in the organization’s best interest.


* Follow-up the status of purchase orders with vendors to ensure timely delivery; and communicate status of orders with internal customers


* Interpret inventory requests, production schedules, pu...