Company Description
Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.
Job Description
The Operational Procurement Professional is part of the Vendor Management Operations Team, which is located in Avaloq's centralized Vendor Management Team. The Vendor Management Team ensures that the goods Avaloq needs are available and that the services to be procured are negotiated at the best possible conditions. Smoothly functioning purchasing is an important basis for the successful realization of our projects and the best possible satisfaction of our customers. The Vendor Management Operations Team consists of various specialists with responsibilities in the areas of contracting, procure-to-pay and system/tool administration.
In this role you will work closely with contract managers, vendor management category leads and global stakeholders (including project managers and PMOs) to ensure PO Documents and onboarding and offboarding of external employees are in line with our recent processes and policies. A core result of this position is to guarantee a smooth handling of Avaloq’s entire operational purchasing process, being part of various projects, and important assistance with internal and external procurement audits.
- Execute purchase orders in accordance with our purchase requisitions (reviewing and analysing). Support finance and business colleagues in both the good receipts and invoice approval process and oversee the onboarding, extension and offboarding of externals employees.
- Vendor Master Creation
- Make sure to adhere to our Group Procurement Policies, processes, and guidelines. (including approval of purchase requisitions and/ or purchase orders)
- Plan, execute, and finalize procurement projects according to deadlines and within budget. Acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and internal departments to deliver according to plan.
- Offer buying support if needed: Supports business end users with Item Requests and Onboarding Process. Trains and educates internal stakeholders on existing processes and familiarizes them with those. Provide inputs to improve the procurement to pay process.
- Support other team members in their daily procurement tasks.
Qualifications
- 2-3 years of experience in requisitioning and processing purchase orders and vendor master creation.
- Strong attention to details
- Ability to handle multiple requests at a time.
- SAP knowledge is preferred.
- Mid-shift schedule
- Resilient during peaks
- Good communication skills in English (oral and written)
Additional Information
We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.
