Indirect Procurement Buyer (100% Remote)

Our Customer is an American financial services and digital payments company based in San Francisco, California. They’re working to help their diverse audiences — sellers, individuals, artists, fans, developers, and all the people in between — overcome barriers to access the economy.

Our Customer is seeking a highly motivated Indirect Procurement Buyer on a contract basis to help support our Customer's business needs. This role is 100% remote.

Responsibilities:

• Review and approve Purchase Requisitions (PRs) and Change Order submissions through the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System (OracleCloud).
• Monitor and manage all PRs and Purchase Orders (POs) throughout the PR/PO Lifecycle.
• Thoroughly understand the end-to-end Procurement process and related policies in order to provide guidance and education to internal stakeholders.
• Perform routine PO maintenance activities, including transfer of PR/PO ownership and closure of expired POs.
• Understand the division of roles and responsibilities amongst each Procurement vertical and cross-functional team in order to direct internal customers to the appropriate resources.
• Ability to read, understand, and interpret commercial terms within supplier agreements.
• Identify and record non-compliant Purchasing activities as defined by internal policies and procedures.
• Assist with monitoring, triaging, and resolving tickets within the Procurement Help Desk.
• Respond to internal customers and cross-functional partners in a timely manner and drive open issues toward resolution in accordance with SLAs.
• Provide a high level of quality customer service to internal and external stakeholders.
• Compile reporting from various systems, validate accuracy, analyze data, and summarize for presentation to stakeholders.
• Analyze business processes, systems, and data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develop, publish, and circulate detailed internal resource guides to document process steps, changes, and improvements.
• Work with IT teams to translate purchasing requirements into technical specifications.
• Support other ad-hoc projects as assigned.
• Monitor project progress and performance against established goals.

Skills and Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of indirect procurement analyst/buyer experience
• Focused experience on indirect procurement categories (Professional Services, Marketing, Workplace Operations, SaaS, etc).
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity and make sound decisions based on documented processes, policies, and best practices.
• Proficiently navigate Source to Pay (S2P) process, especially PR/PO Lifecycles.
• Experience with Procurement systems (OracleCloud preferred), JIRA, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools.
• Familiarity with Financial and Accounting Coding as it applies to Purchase Orders.
• Effective critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Ability to cultivate and maintain mutually beneficial cross functional relationships.
• Have an excellent track record with providing quality customer service, including guiding stakeholders through complex process workflows or situations.
• Ability to forecast Procurement requirements and set expectations with stakeholders.
• Capacity to multitask and manage time effectively.
• Strong communications skills (written & verbal).
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and accountable.

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Benefits: Medical, Dental, and 401k (no match)

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.