Siemens Energy

A Snapshot of Your Day

As an Operational Buyer you will be responsible for purchase order creation in our ERP system (SAP) and sending it to the supplier.

You will be a member of the Services Procurement organization that is responsible for developing procurement strategies for direct materials that will ensure the optimization of Siemens Energy’s strong position. As you will be working and communicating with Spanish-speaking colleagues and predominantly English-speaking suppliers, the English and Spanish language is a very important characteristic for us.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Define purchasing strategy
• Supply in the best conditions of price and delivery time
• Compliance with Siemens Energy purchasing policies and KPIs
• Coordinate purchasing activities with sales, execution, quality, financial and occupational risk prevention teams
• Follow up on purchase orders and keep requesters informed
• Experience in supplier management
• Actively contribute to cooperation with all other parties involved and relay all relevant information to improve the flow of material and value through the supply chain
• Review of the annual shutdown plan in Spain and Portugal in order to define the purchasing strategy to be followed
• Supplier management, negotiation of framework agreements and drafting of contracts
• Achievement of KPIs according to business objectives
• Search for new sources of supply and coordination of scopes with other countries for pooling activities
• Collaboration with the operational purchasing area in order to issue and follow up purchase orders

What You Bring

• Previous SAP experience in Purchase Order Creation.
• Good integration with other operational colleagues located in Spain.
• Good communication and proactivity behavior.
• Customer Focus
• Follow internal purchase order approval workflow.
• Supplier communication about new purchase order
• Maintain all the documents archived according to business requirements.
• Some knowledge & interest in procurement related roles (Project Procurement Manager, Project Manager, Financial Área, Accounting)
• Ability to facilitate and develop a collaborative approach beyond your own organizational unit & function.
• Understanding when and who to involve for assistance if required.
• Ability to identify point of improvements.
• Basic knowledge about procurement activities: Purchase to pay, material master data base, supplier data base, order confirmation, supplier quotations, clients orders, accounting.
• Basic understanding about purchase to pay process.
• Critical thinking and strong analytical skills
• Adherence to process requirements in terms of compliance, is aware of the Business Conduct Guidelines and applies them in the day-to-day work.
• Proponent of asking questions and look for data that helps identify and differentiate symptoms and root causes of defined problem to suggest corrective measures that meet the needs of the situation and those directly affected.
• Excellent Spanish and English language skills.
• No travel

About the Team

At Services Procurement Europe & Africa we contribute to Siemens Energy and its Customers in the region for all maintenance equipment’s activities. Our actions are consistently based on striving for productivity, quality, availability, and digitalization.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Working with a distributed team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects.
• Encouraging work culture
• Remote/Flexible work
• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform.

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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