Purchasing BuyerHybrid

A P&G Purchasing Buyer will be responsible for:

• Leads and executes specific processes within the Source-to-Pay Ecosystem, including sourcing recommendations, contracts, pricing, procurement and/or payments, analysis, and governance.
• Expert in policies, stewardship, compliance, controls, master data work processes, specific industries, and technical systems.
• Typical work includes effectively engaging and managing internal stakeholders and supplier relationships; owning definition and execution of sourcing, procurement, and payment tactics; utilizing technical solutions to transform work processes for improved effectiveness and efficiency; facilitating contract execution end-to-end from sourcing choices recommendation through supplier payments; accountable for delivery of fundamentals such as supply assurance, value creation, and compliance to policies.
• Ability to shift and influence external industries as well as internal senior leadership; demonstrating integrative thinking across ecosystems and stakeholders; accountability for global and/or regional business results.

Must Have:

1. Execute with Excellence

Previous role experience within Initiative Leadership, Project Management, Marketing Specialist, or Work Process Ownership.

Demonstration and Implementation of work processes, workflows, working with Multifunctional Resources/Teams.

Acts as a business owner with great sense of urgency and focus to manage multiple projects/priorities with the organization and attention to detail. High Capacity to lead multiple projects at any given period.

2. Lead with Courage

Ability to demonstrate Leadership to set direction/priority for others, hold others accountable to deadlines, develop execution plans, and work collectively across functions and suppliers.

Can manage expectations and engagement across all business functions.

3. Embraces Change

Is open and flexible/adaptable to change by seeking out and readily accepting new ideas, experiences, skills, opportunities, and new work processes.

4. Excellent Communications/Collaboration skills to lead meetings, listening to feedback/input to put into clear actions, written updates to Initiative teams/leadership, peers and escalate help requests/issues.

Strong Collaboration with internal and external partners.

5. Strong Problem-solving skills to quickly identify and resolve issues to root cause, access risk and determine approach/next steps to mitigate.

6. Champion Productivity

Demonstration of skills/experience to analyze data for utilization in results reporting (written/oral), gap analysis, loss analysis and work process improvement. Is capable to demonstrate mastery within Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Office 365 Tools.

Skills Needed: Leadership, Embraces Change/Agile, Collaborative, Develops Others, Operates with Discipline, Business Mastery, Technical Mastery. • a. Attention to details (tracking of documents online, checking of softcopies) b. Knows how to navigate PDF files (determine document type, slice via PDF slicer tool) c. Document management (receiving of hardcopy docs and sending of docs to third-party warehouse)

P&G’s freelancer opportunities are for project-based or other short-term engagements that require specialized skills. Successful candidates for freelancer opportunities will not be considered employees of The Procter & Gamble Company or any of its subsidiaries nor will candidates be eligible for employment benefits. Candidates looking for regular full-time employment opportunities should begin their search here: pgcareers.com.