Requistion ID: 78980

   

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

【Indirect Procurement Strategic Buyer 】

Responsible to support multiple Indirect categories/projects for specific Sites in a Region cross functionally and collaborating with different functions like Marketing, IT, R&D, QARA, HR, Facility Management, Manufacturing, etc. Partners with regional and global category management to ensure a successful implementation of global or regional led strategies and drive compliance to preferred supply base and purchasing channels. The role is responsible to ensure and continuously improve costs, quality and service level / delivery for all local deliverables in multiple categories. 
 

· Supports in implementing global and regional category strategies, projects, objectives, processes, methods and policies across the Sites

· Undertakes systematic Market research activities

· Supports or leads regular regional RFPs

· Manage local (site specific), day-to-day spend as it comes to requests up to 10K USD/1M JPY (one-time or annually). Above 10K USD/1M JPY Strategic Buyer will align

with Regional Sourcing Leader for guidance.

· Work with tactical buyers to drive compliance to preferred supply base (in line with global or regional strategies) and purchasing channels to

realize savings targets within the Sites/Region.

· Identify savings potentials not only, but especially for site specific requirements; run Procurement initiatives for those potentials and support the

forecasting and savings reporting for the site.

· Responsible for supplier relationships at the local level in cooperation with the regional and global procurement teams.

· Manage escalations from internal stakeholders involving material supply and quality issues originating with the supplier.

· As needed, support operational buyer activities such as PO placements in ERP systems

 

Background Requirement

- Education / Certifications /Licensing: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related discipline.

- Experience: 3+ years professional experience in purchasing for the specific categories or Indirect Materials & Services (desired). Multinational Working experences is a plus

 

Key Required Skills, Knowledge and Capabilities:

· Ability to identify and lead cost improvement initiatives

· Multi-cultural mind set · Change management – leading changes locally and across functions

· Strong business partnering skills and business acumen

· Analytical, business finance capability technical / industry knowledge.

· Independent, structured, target and result-oriented working method

· Assertiveness and ambition to solve demanding tasks

· Language skills (English fluent in written and spoken)