Sourcing:

- Responsible for several categories (equipments, services or chemicals, depending on Total priorities)

-Apply IPO sourcing and assessment procedures (IPO EP 101, EP 102), notably:

-Prepare market cards for targeted category, identify Asian vendors using comprehensive sources, monitor initial phase of assessment process (RFI, Financial analysis, scorecard creation, compliance) and propose a short list of vendors for Total Quality Management Systems audits (reference is Total international Qualification process - CR EP CA 530)

-Sole point of contact between Asian vendor and IPO during this initial evaluation phase

-Ensure Qualified vendors are properly referenced in Total relevant databases (ISDB, Projects Exhibit J, IPO database, CTG database)

-Participate to suppliers visits, run QMS with Quality Team and write reports

Call For Tender (when assigned by a project or affiliate):

- Act as IPO project leader for each Purchasing project assigned to IPO: launch CFT using adequate means (e-RFx or standard paper format), conduct clarification and negotiation, scoring and rating, all the above in connection with requester

- Issue a project report with all key data for traceability (prices, terms & conditions, savings)

Procurement:

- Obtain procurement forecasts for upcoming tenders from Projects and and make sure Asian qualified suppliers are invited to the CFT’s

- Upon affiliate/project request provide all necessary support: freight forwarding proposal, communication, translations, others

- Expedite each Purchase Order (PO) to track key milestones (post-production process), raise alerts and report supplier performance

- Report savings generated by all PO’s placed to Asian vendors and write a REX for each PO placed in China first then Asia

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

- Develop good supplier relationships in liaison with internal stakeholders (category managers, end-users, other IPO team members, etc)

- Participate to suppliers performance reviews with Quality team (SQM meetings, post-supply evaluation)