Your Role and Responsibilities:

A sneak peek into this role:

As a self-driven Procurement Sourcing Buyer, you will support an external client environment.
You will be responsible for supporting sourcing requirements and supporting client category management team and managing the contractual commitments for a given category. You will report to the Budapest Procurement Service organization, but at the same time you will become part of the extended team of our clients as well, who might provide additional business guidance. You will conduct tendering activities, market analysis, including market drivers, supplier profiles and relative negotiating positions and support client sourcing strategies.

Why you’ll love your job:
– You will provide sourcing support as assigned by the Client Sourcing Consultant and Category Strategy Leader and contribute to operational levels of excellence
– You will own primary responsibility to achieve client success against all contractual commitments at a category level
– You will be responsible to understand category deliverables, savings commitments, milestones, and obligations– includes supporting reporting, analytical readouts that recognize opportunities to improve
– You will contribute to integrated sourcing strategy which delivers savings and drives category transformation through time. You will deliver and execute on sourcing events to support the strategy, including tail spend management and supplier consolidation
– You will communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization, primary interface to key category client stakeholders

Required Professional and Technical Expertise:

What you will bring to the team:

– Bachelor’s degree or equivalent post-secondary experience
– Fluent English and Spanish language skills
– At least 2-5 years of sourcing related experience in indirect procurement categories
– Decision-making skills and demonstrated negotiation expertise
– Supplier relationship management knowledge and client facing skills
– Proactive character and team player attitude
– Experience with dashboards

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise :
– Experience with the following are bonus points, but not necessary, you can learn them at IBM:
– Experience in the use of Microsoft Office, SAP, Ariba, Tableau tools and reporting or data mining experience in Procurement or other department