Buyer

**Buyer**:
**Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.**:
Purchases materials according to required technical specifications, price, delivery schedule, and terms. Ensures purchasing activities align with corporate purchasing policies and procedures.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Identifies new suppliers in cooperation with the relevant category team.
- Qualifies new suppliers in cooperation with Supplier Quality and Engineering Specialists.
- Negotiates agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews price lists and terms and conditions.
- Adapts corporate contractual framework to the local business needs.
- Recommends frame agreements to management and executes upon approval.
- Analyzes and evaluates bids in order to determine the optimal value.
- Supports bid and proposal teams by providing relevant market information.
- Tracks goods received to verify appropriate delivery and ensure invoice processing.
- Oversees supplier performance (on-time delivery, quality, lead time), and resolves performance issues.
- Initiates Purchase Orders (PO) in the system, according to the purchase requisitions and in alignment with standard procedures, and confirms delivery with suppliers, monitors, and tracks supplier performance to PO requirements.
- Aligns supplier orders with customer requirements (based on ERP or Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)/project requirements) in terms of content, quality, delivery, sustainability, and price.
- Ensures the SAP Ariba platform is updated as defined in the procedure.

**Your background**:

- Bachelor´s Degree in Administration, Finance or related.
- 2 years of experience as indirect purchaser.
- Experience with indirect.
- Knowledge in SAP desirable, (oracle is also an option) and intermediate basic Excel.
- Advanced level of English.

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