**GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Lead the competitive exercise in compliance with 3rd party goods and services standards
- Quality control requisitions
- Ascertains if complete requisitions has been provided
- Responsible for short form request for quotation (RFQ) process
- Bid comparison, rationalization and analysis
- Negotiate price, payment terms and other T&C's
- Supplier recommendation to management
- Manage and expedite internal Purchase Order approval
- Maintain Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system data to ensure accuracy during the entire Procure-to-Pay cycle
- Works within the global DOA approval authorities and escalates as required
- Identify appropriate commercial obligations, contract templates and all requirements and technical specifications for delivery
- Identification of execution risks for escalation when needed
- Issue and expedite supplier acknowledgement in conformance to agreed final Purchase Order
- Receive acknowledgement and update ERP system
- Negotiate and record all cost savings
- Creation of "Change Orders" and its following change in the suppliers contract
- Expedite shipment and materials per project procedures
- Inform projects of shipment status and proactively manage schedules in accordance with project requirements
- Arrange receiving and inspection of goods whenever it is required
- Coordinate with logistics on shipping and custom clearance
- Shipment receipt acknowledgement into ERP system
- Administer Purchase Order reconciliation
- Closure of Purchase Order as per standard policy
- Support overall suppliers evaluation in terms of overall procurement performance
- Support by backfilling on roles as required based on workload/ resource capacity limitations demand
- Perform regulations and compliance analysis
- Ensure compliance to Emerson Record Retention Policy at all times
- Ensure compliance to Emerson's Ethics Policy at all times
**CRITICAL SUCCESS INDICATORS
- Ensure 100% compliance to purchasing processes, defined standards and procedures
- Proactively engage in communicating with internal customers and suppliers
- Timely professional communication and responsiveness with internal customers and suppliers
- Maintain the competiveness in our sourcing processes relative to fiduciary responsibility
- Accurate maintenance of ERP system
- On-time delivery of goods and services
**MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS**
**EDUCATION**
Must be a Bachelor degree graduate in Procurement or Commerce, Masters in Management, Materials Management or Supply Chain Management or similar field is preferred
Collegiate studies in engineering beneficial
**YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN DIRECT OR ASSOCIATED JOB DEFINED PROFILE**
3-5 years of relevant work experience
**ACCREDITATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR AFFILIATIONS**
Certification and active participation in various Supply Chain Management Professional Organization (Institute for Supply Management or its equivalent) highly desired
**KNOWLEDGE/ SKILLS/ ABILITIES
- In-depth knowledge in various Supply Chain methodologies and best practices
- Demonstrated the ability to perform competitive exercises
- Demonstrated abilities in ERP based systems such as JDE, Oracle, SAP etc. (Oracle preferred)
- Show leadership potential
- Ability to influence various members of the organization
- Computer literate
- Excellent professional written and verbal English skills required, special language skills whenever specified
- Dynamic and proactive
- Proven ability to work in multicultural virtual environment and lead/ coordinate activities for offices located throughout the world
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent team player
- Methodical approach to work
- Can work with minimum supervision
- Conduct root cause analysis (provide solutions/ options)
- Excellent sense of urgency
- Flexible approach to work
- Excellent administration skills
- Being multilingual in principal global languages (i.e., English, Spanish, French, Japanese, etc.) may be beneficial