Spot Buyer with Polish

Accenture Services, s.r.o.

Place of work
Prague
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
n/a

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Spot Buyer’s role is to apply standard practices and processes in supporting one-off spot buying for operating and capital goods & services in direct support of Client’s Procurement Organization.  Included in the process are clarification and definition of end-user requirements, formal bidding, supplier selection, contract negotiations, and supplier management.  The resource in this role mitigates risk, operates in a cost effective manner, and delivers bottom-line /cost avoidance savings, while following standard Client- and Accenture-approved processes and practices.  The person in this role will take the lead in providing services as per Client's specific needs (i.e., local sourcing, supplier diversity, etc.).

The main responsibilities willl be to:
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with key customers and suppliers, with a focus on understanding and addressing and incorporating client-specific contractual requirements into supply agreements

- Review and analyze client requirements.  Work with client to determine best procurement strategy to meet the needs of the requirements. 

- Identify and source potential suppliers based on the requirements provided by client’s stakeholders / customers / end-users / requestors.

- Determine and develop RFx Selection Model for supplier solicitation.

- Negotiate client’s terms and conditions as well as pricing with selected supplier.  Ensure best pricing and terms and conditions for requirements are met according to client’s need.

- Report cost savings using established cost savings methodologies.

- Manage contract execution process, including obtaining contract signatures, when and where applicable.

- Periodic vetting of existing contracts, pricing, terms and conditions to execute opportunity strategy

- Create / update of category cards when applicable

Employee perks, benefits

Package of benefits

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

Core Competencies and aptitudes (functional skills):

- Helpful and proactive manner is important
- Strong customer orientation and communication skills
- Good interpersonal and analytical skills
- Good administration skills
- Ability to plan, prioritize, and deliver work independently
- Ability to forge relationships and quickly establish credibility based on merit, knowledge, and experience
- Comfortable with responding to requests from all levels of the organization/culture
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
 

Technical Skills:

- General knowledge of contract law and drafting specifications / contracts / statements of work
- Prior purchasing experience preferred
- Spot Buying / sourcing experience, including procurement of capital goods and services
- Microsoft Excel skills - to the intermediate level
 

Other Expectations:

- Ability to work cross functionally and resolve conflicts
- Strong organizational skills and ability to perform under tight deadlines
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Excellent Polish (written and spoken)
Req. Code : 00364389
Division/Department : Accenture BPO

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Brief description of the company

Accenture’s Services workforce is a dedicated team of people who work on outsourcing engagements. These are long-term partnerships with clients for whom we manage and provide increasingly specialized business operations, such as finance and accounting, IT, applications development and maintenance, help desk services, and HR. We not only maintain key business functions for clients, we constantly seek to improve them to help our clients move ahead of the competition.

Number of employees

1000 and more employees
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