Company Description

Part of Veolia Group, Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions brings together experienced professionals in pursuit of the same goal: to solve the world's most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, the environment and energy. We’re always looking for passionate and creative people to help us in this mission!

Job Description

Job Summary about the area and the role:
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (WTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery,
treatment and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and
beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy
industrial wastewater treatment.

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build
stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic Manufacturing Plant Buyer to join our
Sourcing team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in purchasing within a
chemical manufacturing environment, with proficient knowledge of relevant SAP Material
Management (MM) inventory planning modules. Familiarity with the relevant transaction
codes (T-codes) in SAP is essential for efficient and effective fulfillment, management, and
planning of materials and inventory.

You will interact with Supply Chain and Operation Planning, Plant Production, Logistics,
Category Management, Material and Product Management, Sourcing, Quality Assurance,
Accounts Payable, and Suppliers to help support production activities and schedules.
You will be responsible for Purchase Orders and their contents from the moment they are
issued until they are closed out i.e. setting contract terms, maintaining Outline Agreements, order confirmation, expediting deliveries, maintaining accurate delivery dates in SAP, Coordinating with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality and Logistics, Accounts Payable for resolving any payment issues to the supplier, financial tracking of costs recognition, and any other tasks as assigned by the manager.

Key Characteristics
 Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to interact effectively with
local plant and warehouse teams, senior management and develop strong
relationships with Suppliers

 Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with large amounts of data for inventory
planning.
 Self-governed and motivated to perform tasks within established guidelines

Duties & Responsibilities
 PO creation, and interface with Suppliers to ensure PO is received/acknowledged
and ship date is met including but not limited to expediting, rescheduling pull ins and
push outs.
 Manage and monitor all transactional procurement activities through SAP, utilizing
the appropriate modules/T-codes for various procurement tasks.
 Ensure planned ship date aligns with production needs and expedite with Suppliers,
Logistics, Category, Supply Chain where needed to improve delivery.
 Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders team to fulfill inventory needs,
plan and forecast demand, maintain optimal stock levels, to support continuous
production and overall plant process improvement.
 Follow-up/Expedite with Suppliers in an organized and timely fashion and comply
with documentation requirements and material deliveries.
 Manage Quarterly Price Adjustments, maintain Outline Agreements and ensure
Master Data is accurate.
 Invoice resolution with Supplier and Accounts Payable as needed.
 Other tasks as assigned

Hard Skills
 Excellent Expediting skills, preferably related to manufacturing/chemical products.
 Familiarity with purchase order conditions, INCOTERMS, domestic and International
Logistics
 Good communicator having strong interpersonal, presentation and facilitation skills
 Strong quantitative and analytical skills
 Time & Work Management skills
 Capable of working in a team, prioritizing, multi-tasking, systematic and organized
approach to daily assigned tasks.
 Agile and adaptable to changing priorities
 Purchase order life cycle management including but not limited to rejections, returns,
credit notes
 Proficient in MS Office and other contemporary softwares.
 Proficient in SAP MM with a strong understanding of relevant T-codes for purchasing
and inventory management.

Soft Skills
 Expert: Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the field.
 Strategic: Gets the big game. Understands long term. Respects short term but
doesn’t get hung up in the noise.      
 Inspirational: Ability to inspire/ motivate others.     

 Curious: Ability to pose high impact questions, seeing opportunities in areas where
others see problems.    
 Courageous: Champions ideas and helps transform them into actions.      
 Humble: Respectful towards peers, team members, leadership and stakeholders. 
 Holistic: Think customer and Company first.
 Accountable: Demonstrates responsibility ownership and commitment. Taking
responsibility for making tough calls when necessary.
 Ambitious: Identifies underlying truths and comes up with ideas that change the way
we conceptualize issues, depicts vision of future that rallies teams to compete in new
ways.

Qualifications

Education & Experience
Required:
 Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) in an applicable or related field to
/Sourcing/Procurement/Supply Chain/ Business Administration
 5-7 years minimum experience in increasing roles in purchasing, expediting or supply
chain.

Preferred Regional experience

Additional Information

Annual travel required 10%

 

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.