Purchasing Associate

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Reporting to the Procurement lead you shall use the skills and experiences that you have collected so far in your professional journey so as to contribute to a team that continually seeks to be better.

As a key contributor to the team your:
**Role**:
You will be responsible for collaborating cross-functionally across the entire Sourcing & Procurement in supporting our business partners in various functions on purchasing goods and services from predefined suppliers.

**Responsibilities**:

- Treat Purchase Requisition accordingly to establish Sourcing method
- Review requestor Purchase Requisitions for accuracy and completeness.
- Monitor risk profiles of business critical suppliers.
- Review requirements against contractual documentation and non-contractual documents
- Support Splunk's processes and policies.
- Build relationships with the Category Managers
- Learn to work cross-functionally on sourcing related initiatives.
- Serve our business partners to do their best work in a timely manner whilst protecting Splunk's customers, reputation, operations, legal and financial risk

**Requirements**:

- Ariba
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Preferred minimum 2 years work experience and/or:

- 4 Year Degree in Supply Chain Management (or directly related)
- Excel or Google Sheets