Specialist Global Product Supply - Buy
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Execute integrated purchasing, global supply planning and PO management activities.
Work across functions to solve planning and purchasing related issues, identify risks and opportunities and mitigate potential delays.
Key Responsibilities:
- Place and manage purchase orders in alignment with the supply plan, ensuring compliance with market Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Create, maintain, and distribute operational reports
- Support communication with relevant stakeholders to ensure optimized use of capacity, understand supply constraints, delivery performance development and ensure risk mitigation plans are in place
- Ensure timely and accurate conversion of Sales Orders (SOs) for dedicated supply flows. Monitor and troubleshoot conversion failures, ensuring alignment with system logic and business rules.
- Ensure all buy activities comply with company policies and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation for all tasks.
- Support communication with SCM markets
Key Relationships:
- Product Supply Interface team (PSI)
- Market SCM
- Planning Services & DPM
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Service-minded and consumer/customer oriented
- Team player
- Analytical thinking and ability to solve problems
- Comfortable with learning internal systems such as Supply Chain Planning and Execution software applications
- Good knowledge of MS Office (advance MS Excel skills) and SAP
- Good knowledge of Power BI is a plus
- Fluent in English, additional language is a plus
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in supply chain management or in the areas of business administration, logistics, planning, information systems. Master's degree is a plus
- 2 plus years of experience in supply chain management, operations or planning, preferably in the Accessories, Apparel or Footwear industries
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