Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.
**This is a hybrid position in Iztapalapa, Mexico City.**
Thales is looking for a **Direct **Tactical Buyer** who is primarily responsible for the transactional procurement process of PR/PO (Procurement Requisition/Procurement Order), as well as transforming a PR into a PO using the different elements coming from category buyers, in a time frame (SLA) and to follow up the PO.
In this position, you will also be responsible for expediting and following up on Procurement orders to ensure specific timing and quality requirements are met, including post award responsibility for supplier deliveries. In addition, you will support the category team in quote preparation, data analytics, quotes summaries, discrepant supplier inputs, and other tasks related to the sourcing process.
**Key Areas of Responsibility**
- Receiving procurement requests and verifying their conformity to operating methods.
- Transforming procurement requests into procurement orders.
- Managing purchasing order cancellation, rescheduling, or PO information change (quantity, price).
- Analysis of quotations and summarization for category buyers.
- Make sure that suppliers acknowledge PO. receipt and provide delivery commitment.
- Follow-up and expediting of Procurement orders.
- Ensuring accuracy of the order, General Ledger account, or project number, ship to location, supplier information on Procurement order, and relevant notes/comments on the Procurement order document.
- Managing disputes and problem solution.
- Managing local negotiations within the Delegation of Authority threshold.
- RFQ management in ERP under Delegation of Authority.
- Prepare reports on Procurements, including cost analysis.
**Minimum Requirements**
- At least 3-5 years of progressive experience in similar position.
- Bachelor's degree in Administration, International Trade, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
- Advanced English proficiency.
- Advanced knowledge and use of MS Office / SAP / Oracle / JIRA /.
- Resilient, with strong capabilities to work in high pressure environments and situations.
- Communication and teamwork skills.
- Results oriented.
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