Senior Buyer - Indirect Procurement

About the role

Jabil is looking for a Senior Buyer in indirect procurement in Guangzhou. The role optimizes the overall cost of materials, develops supply base and supply chain strategies, negotiates pricing, terms and agreements for strategic or business-unit-specific materials, and supervises purchasing staff within the workcell.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze and project component purchase prices for the Standard Costing process and provide input on quoted costs to customers.
• Optimize material costs and manage materials that are business unit specific or strategic.
• Work with suppliers to add preferred or strategic suppliers to the customer's Approved Manufacturer's List (AML).
• Monitor supplier performance on cost, delivery and quality, conduct supplier audits, certifications and performance reviews, and communicate Jabil's expectations.
• Develop supply chain strategies tailored to customers or business units, and influence customer supply chain strategies.
• Work with Materials Quote Analysts to quote and re-quote materials, negotiating terms and conditions that protect Jabil's interests.
• Assist the hiring manager with recruiting and hiring, and ensure purchasing staff receive proper training, tools and resources.

Required profile

• Ability to present information clearly to managers, clients and customers and to define problems and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to read and understand simple instructions, memos and visual aids, and to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to handle standardized situations and to apply common sense to simple tasks.

Required skills

• Advanced PC skills, including knowledge of Jabil's software packages.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide, and to compute rates, ratios and percentages.