Buyer, Global Procurement Service Center

BUYER, GLOBAL PROCUREMENT SERVICE CENTER

At FMC, our employees are guided by our purpose: Innovation for Agriculture, Solutions for the Planet. We provide farmers innovative solutions that increase productivity and resilience of their land. From our industry-leading pipeline to novel biologicals and precision technologies, we are passionate about the power of science to solve agriculture’s biggest challenges.

For more than a century, FMC has successfully delivered some of the of the industry's most advanced, innovative solutions that protect farmers’ crops from destructive pests and disease, while also protecting the environment. We are committed to fulfilling our mission of discovering new herbicide, insecticide and fungicide active ingredients, product formulations and pioneering technologies that are consistently better for the planet.

Position Summary

The GPSC Buyer will ensure that procurement transactions are directed to the contracted vendors and ensure that the vendors, price, and terms are executed in systems. This position will support the plants (1) to ensure that transactions are executed in the preferred systems and tools and (2) to manage all procurement queries and tasks in compliance with Procurement global standard processes and procedures.

Reporting to: GPSC Master Buyer

Location: Manila, Philippines     

The Role

• PO Generation: Responsible for creating and maintaining spot POs (those not generated against system agreements, automatically generated via MRP or catalogs). Assumes most POs will be generated by site users against system agreements such as call-offs against outline agreements, framework orders, and catalogs. Includes escalations for PO approval based on Procurement DOA.
• System contract management: Creates and maintains outline agreements, source lists, Purchase info records (PIRs), framework orders in SAP, maintains internal catalogs. Includes coordinating with Category/Sourcing Managers to get the information required to keep the system contracts current to enable the site users to do call-offs against the system contracts and enable automated purchasing via tools like MRP, auto-PO generation, etc.
• Customer (Internal Requestors, Approvers, Category Mgrs, Partners) and Supplier query support and case/queue management via available communication channels (Fuze, shared email, ServiceNow, AskGPG etc.).
• Procurement-related accounts payable exception handling: Reconciles pended invoices including price discrepancies (notifying Category Manager where appropriate). Includes invoice price exceptions, preparation of letters of credit, credit references, sales tax exemption, etc.
• PO Follow-up and Confirmation: Performs PO confirmation/ acknowledgement, delivery assurance and follow-up to suppliers (via email, call, etc.). Running reports in SAP to manage, monitor and execute follow-ups in a regular basis.
• Delivery Assurance/Expediting: Includes order acknowledgements, advanced shipment notices, expedited delivery notices to suppliers, advice of delivery (logistics). May also coordinating with Regional Hubs as needed (i.e. emergency expediting, inbound shipments from China).
• Buy/Pay Channel Execution: Guides users on the appropriate buy/pay channel that should be used.
• Incident Management and Exceptions Handling: First to second level troubleshooting of issues leveraging on Incident Management process, ensuring proper closure of issues and escalating to Expert Buyer SPOCs and/or Team Leads, timely if necessary.
• Coordinate directly with relevant stakeholders for escalations related to PO follow-up, confirmation, service quality, supply issues, emergency purchases, expediting, and similar matters.
• Timely escalation and proper communication to GPG Global Service Center Team Lead Buyer/s and related Expert Buyer SPOCs
• Participate and contribute to daily/regular sub-team and team meetings (Daily Monitoring Systems), Incident/Problem or Tactical meetings.
• Adhoc Procurement Operations tasks such as documentations, translations, etc.

The Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chain, Data Analytics/Science related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in procurement, procurement operations, accounts payable or comparable valuable experience from other areas (shared service, marketing, sales, customer service, etc.).
• Practical experience in Tactical Sourcing, including managing sourcing requests, identifying qualified suppliers, conducting price comparisons and negotiations, issuing RFQs or RFX, and awarding suppliers in alignment with category strategies and business requirements.
• Strong understanding of the Procure to Pay experience.
• Experience navigating a variety of external supplier and internal business stakeholder relationships.
• Experience executing procurement activities in SAP and Ariba.
• Strong MS Excel skills and other report and chart generating tools.
• Strong English-speaking skills, able to speak and write in the English language
• Strong communication and customer service skills.
• Minimum 2-3 years of general experience in industry (chemicals, agrochemicals, manufacturing, petrochemicals) preferred.
• Ability to exhibit Operational Discipline and Operational Excellence – able to follow policies, standard processes and execute them well throughout all operations.
• Ability to invoke problem solving and troubleshooting skills when issues arise.
• Must be able to work mid-shift 1PM – 10PM.