Purchasing Coordinator

What is the job about?

Provide administrative support to Indirect daily ordering and PO management activities. The person in this role need to make sure all placed orders coming via QP/SAP SRM are ordered within due time and delivered.  The Purchasing Coordinator specialized in Indirect daily ordering and PO management has the end to end responsibility within his/her own area. 

As Purchasing Coordinator, your job is also to oversee and ensure smooth production from the purchasing side, vendors are paid on time, stock and non-stock materials are available. In addition, provide administrative support on team level and be a role model in below mentioned key activities.       

Your main responsibilities:

• Maintain Info records, BOM
• Provide administrative support in material creation
• Identify and oversee critical items for production in order to prevent production stop
• Contact person between production, suppliers/warehouse and other departments in case of wrong quality/items/delivery date and any/other related issue resolution
• Support to convert Purchase request to Purchase order, coming from QP/ARIBA/SAP SRM
• Handle order confirmations
• Follow up on orders, using ZDMOPD/ME2N (delivery time, partial delivery, missing materials etc)
• Handle Vendor Invoice management
• Continuously gain and improve his/her knowledge in Quick Procurement process
• Support indirect daily ordering process in general, answering for questions coming from end users/ requestors locally
• Create and maintain Framework orders, share and communicate them towards end users and suppliers in their own area
• The Purchasing coordinator need to be clear with all Purchasing related processes and principles in place and capable to use them, such as local DOA rules etc.
• Local Vendor Ambassador related tasks
• All other process related tasks and activities what are requested by the line manager
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Your background

We imagine that you have:  

• 1-2 years’ work experience, ideally in multinational companies
• Fluency English and Serbian
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing systems and processes with positive attitude
• Willingness to embrace new technology and workflows, showing flexibility and resilience in a dynamic environment
• Ideally experience indirect and direct sourcing and/or operational procurement activities
• Ideally understanding of the order flow and related procurement processes
• Ideally solid Procurement system knowledge
• Systematic and quality-oriented way of working, following instructions and procedures
• Ability and willingness to work in a team environment
• Distinct flexibility and capacity to work under pressure with regard to function and time
• Sense of duty and responsibility
• Communicative, people oriented
• Willingness to acquire new skills

What’s in it for you?

What are your goals? Here at Grundfos it’s our mission to help you develop and fulfil your ambitions, both career and personal. We are guided by our six core values, and you’ll find that your fresh ideas will be welcomed and make a difference in everything from local to large-scale global projects. You’ll encounter colleagues from all over the world both as part of your daily work, supporting and all the while broadening each other’s cultural horizons.

In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

Do you want to learn more?

If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume by clicking “Apply”.

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