Associate, Procurement Operations
Location: Mexico City (Hybrid)
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As an Associate, Procurement Operations supports the Global Procurement Operations team. The Procurement Associate supports the Procurement operation processes of assigned businesses ensuring quality, timeliness and effectiveness.
In this role, a typical day will include:
Service Delivery:
- Supports transitions and knowledge transfer.
- Supports processes are migrated to the blueprint as per agreed timelines.
- Operational oversight to provide services at expected levels with a clear customer focus, including handling the exceptions.
- Coordinate with local teams & business functions to provide seamless service.
- Corresponds to internal and external inquiries.
- Serves as a Subject Matter Expert for related policies and processes.
- Act as System Key User Lead and actively initiate and participate in improvements to sustain a highly effective and efficient process, and realize cost reduction opportunities including areas to standardize processes to optimize investments made in global ERP/SAP systems and financial services.
- Support the measurement and delivery of service levels and SLA/KPI targets.
- Proactively challenge the Status Quo, making fact based recommendations.
Procurement:
- Process Purchase requisitions/Shopping Cart and approve orders for Materials and Services in related purchasing systems. (Ariba, SAP, BI)
- Shopping cart compliance and accuracy check, Adhere to Sourcing guidelines & various sub-processes as laid down for processing Purchase Requisitions/Shopping Cart.
- Review Purchase requisitions/Shopping Cart for Input data accuracy, Payment terms and supporting documents like Quotations, Pricing List, Contracts, Bidding Sheet, Approvals based on threshold and type of orders.
- Process any PO amendment requests and in turn obtain revised PO confirmations from vendor.
- Liaise between Requestors and Vendor for required purchasing process and provide helpdesk support – Missing PO, Vendor info, Invoice/GR issues and Contracts.
- Maintain manual PO log data and provide reporting support as required by the business.
- Process Vendor management related requests, includes creating and updating vendor information in relevant systems.
- Support Requestors / End users as the First Point of Contact for resolution of all Process Queries / Issues.
- Responsible for TAT and Delivery of team metrics, supervision of team members, resolve process issues, determine root cause analysis for specific issues.
- Create Reports and Data analysis as per business requirements.
Compliance:
- Ensure all processes, policies and procedures are clearly defined, fully documented
- Promote a strong and control environment and follow up on audit issues and implement correcting measures
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree (Accounting, Finance, Administration, Economics or related.)
- Advanced level of English
- Portuguese desirable
- 1-3 years of experience in procurement or similar role
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:
- Opportunity to join a growing, early-stage organization built within a mature, stable global company.
- Friendly working environment and a diverse and highly motivated team
- Individual career development plan and possible career growth within a newly created account
- Truly international environment and daily interactions with colleagues and stakeholders from all over the world
- Attractive benefits & compensation package
- Flexible hours and remote work possibilities (min 3 days per week office-based)
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