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Introduction

Required Education

  • Bachalor's Degree Diploma

Required skills, education and experience: 

  • Languages skills - English and Spanish - Advanced level 
  • Computer skills (Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint)
  • Good communication and problem-solving skills
  • Proactive attitude
  • Strong interpersonal skills to work with suppliers, global and cross-functional teams

 

Your role and responsibilities

Objective of the job:

 Execution Buyer - main responsibilities are to guarantee placement of Purchase Order (PO) and delivery of spare parts.

 

 Responsibilities: 

The Execution Buyer must ensure all parts will be shipped on the delivery date shown in the PO and escalate, if necessary, in order to guarantee continuity of supply.
 - PO types: Delivery responsibility includes SAP POs for INEW (including Rework), IREP and IWAR POs.

- Integrate with supplier, TLS Supply Chain, warehouse, procurement, logistics and engineer team, will also support activities/functions related to the return of material to suppliers for repair or to claim.
- Orderbook management: Close communication with supplier to guarantee Purchase Order has been received and delivery date will be met
- Manage new buy, rework, repair and warranty order,
- Monitor and report delivery status and escalate supply issues at vendor and internally and involving other team in order to solve any issue until the parts arrive
- Handle/avoid incoming receiving issues.
- Manage PO changes (qty, price, delivery dates)
- Participate in invoice problem handling: check and resolve problem invoice list, blocked invoices, received not billed items
 - Initiate expedite payments as needed
 - Critical Parts: Responsible for expediting critical parts (when requested / pointed out by TLS Supply Chain)
 - PO creation: Create Purchase Orders to external suppliers and IBM manufacturing plants’
 - Bids: to bid parts out when there is no contract in place and there is urgent/one time need.
 - Supplier performance: Manage suppliers’ on time ship performance (OTSP) for key suppliers and work on action plan for recovery
 - Business projects / transformation: support new TLS projects and transformations
 - Reports/Metrics: Comply and provide status on KPI of past due & unplaced PO and R-block invoices
 - Support activities: Payments, credits, Logistics/Importation, End of life / Obsolete PN/ LTB (last time buy, EC(engineer change), NPI (new product introduction).

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Good analytical skills
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Demonstrated experience in SAP (IP0)
  • Open to learn new skills (about AI and Automation)
  • Languages skills - English and Spanish - Advanced level

 

 

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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ABOUT IBM

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