Role of Regional Buyer – Purchases materials, parts, supplies, and equipment following established purchasing policies and procedures and optimizes price, delivery, and terms.
Key responsibilities
Procurement
Achieve specific procurement goals or provide support to others while following established procurement systems and protocols.
Contract Requirements
Identify contract requirements and write specifications for a small portfolio or area of the business for existing contracts and/or new contracts.
Contract Management
Deliver required outcomes by managing day-to-day relationships with contract service providers while working within an established contract management plan.
Buying
Negotiate with vendors on product assortment and price. Involves working either on a small to medium category of products, merchandise or services or on specified products and services within a large category.
Sourcing
Collect and analyze the key cost drivers, market dynamics and issues, areas of innovation, and alternative suppliers for a low-risk area with many alternatives/minimum costs of changing, in consultation with relevant functions to provide solid market information for decision making.
Data Collection and Analysis
Collate and analyze data using pre-set tools, methods and formats. Involves working independently.
Cost Accounting
Evaluate costs and identify variances or opportunities to improve profitability for more senior colleagues.
Category Management
Deliver specific category goals within a significant category plan/program in line with the organizations’ purchasing/procurement and/or sales strategy. Identify improvements to the plan/category program.
Change Management
Develop knowledge and understanding of the organization’s policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct to ensure own work adheres to those standards. Obtain authorization from a supervisor or manager for any exceptions from mandatory procedure.
Document Preparation
Prepare moderately complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for reports.
Information and Business Advice
Resolve queries from internal or external customers or suppliers by providing information on complex processes and the related policies, referring to others where necessary for interpretation of policy.
Stakeholder Engagement
Assist with stakeholder engagement by arranging actions, meetings, events, and supporting materials to promote stakeholder understanding and commitment.
Skills
Costing and Budgeting
Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on costing, budgeting and finance tasks.
Negotiation
Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to negotiate independently while providing guidance and training to others on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.
Verbal Communication
Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on expressing ideas, requesting actions and formulating plans or policies.
Action Planning
Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
Review and Reporting
Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on reviewing and creating relevant, lucid and effective reports.
Supplier Management
Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on managing vendors so that they deliver the best possible results given available resources.
Project Management
Works without supervision while providing technical guidance when required on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.
Stakeholder Expectation Management
Works with full competence to identify potential stakeholders, analyze their expectations, and develop strategies for managing stakeholders and their expectations. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level
Experience
Experience enables job holder to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (Over 6 years to 10 years)