1. General Job information
Job title: Purchasing Specialist
Service Group / Unit: Group Business Services
(GbS)
Department: PSS
2. Position in the organization
Reports to: Purchasing Assist Lead
3. Purpose of the job
The Purchase Specialist is responsible for
executing purchasing transactions, in such a
way that products and services are delivered in
time and within the specified
(commercial and technical) conditions. Monitors
the operational purchasing process and
initiates and implements optimization
opportunities.
The Business Environment The Purchasing Shared
Services organization annually deals
with 350.000 PO items related to all Indirect
goods and services and 600.000 invoices
and 150.000 tickets for DSM globally. Employees
within PSS are responsible for small
value buying with a total value of €100M. To
ensure that the entire Purchase to Pay
process runs smoothly, PSS interacts with
multiple stakeholders: requisitioners, site
management teams, suppliers, Finance, Sourcing
and the business/service units on a
global scale. DSM business processes are
executed upon a foundation of IT applications
(e.g. SAP SRM / Ariba) which provide functional
efficiency, data storage, transfer &
analysis capability. They provide substantial
competitive advantage, they are innovated
& improved in line with business strategy,
best practice, legal necessity and Corporate
Requirements. Optimal use of DSM’s IT applications
contributes to effective and efficient
operations. Partners & customers are
increasingly innovating services toward global
technology & social trends. They demand
increasingly higher levels of collaboration,
accuracy, reliability, speed & agility. In
this context the Purchasing Specialist is focusing
on the transactional activities within PSS by
creation and monitoring of purchase orders.
In order to execute this efficiently and
effectively, the Purchase specialist has to
continuously improve the way of working and
assist in standardizing processes as well as
adding more purchase related activities and
services into the service center in an agile
project-based approach.
4. Job Content:
Key Areas of Accountability / Responsibility
Ordering and non-compliant invoice handling and
follow-up:
? Responsible for all
requisition/shopping cart and purchase order processing,
interaction with requisitioners and BGs to
identify required need
? Responsible for creation of
year-orders according to the right standard
? Handling of PO responses
? Monitoring and follow up on
open PO responses
? Monitoring and follow-up on
open items where goods receipt is missing
? Handling of non-compliant
invoices
? Responsible for maintaining
and increasing the gatekeeping standard (guidance to
correct channel and vendor selection)
? Create and change vendor
master data
Customer connect:
? Ticket handling from
vendors and internal customers regarding purchase orders and
invoices
? P2P complaint handling:
solve low impact, escalate high impact complaints. Provide
reporting input to relevant stakeholders for
evaluation (e.g. supplier performance
towards Sourcing)
? Escalate medium and high
issues to SPOC within PSS
Continuous Improvement & Innovation:
? Initiate improvements
within PSS and to TS – Done by Global Continuous Team. PAs
should contribute or identify the area where
the improvement project needs to be
initiated.
? Due to the rapidly changing
Purchasing Shared Services environment it is expected
that PAs are agile, dynamic and actively
contribute to improvement projects.
5. Complexity of the job
The Purchase Specialist is responsible for
handling all purchase orders and requests for
respective location(s). This requires extensive
knowledge of the P2P process and systems
and all deviations from this process by various
DSM Sites. The Purchase Specialist
requires a pro-active and conscientious
approach to problem solving in line with DSM
processes and requirements. Due to the global
nature of the P2P organization, the
Purchase Specialist needs to be able to work in
a multinational setting and being able to
understand local specifics to ensure high
quality and efficient P2P activities.
6. Knowledge and educational level
? Higher or medium
educational graduate level
? Good knowledge of the
English language oral and written and local languages is
advantage (e.g. German, French, Spanish or
Chinese)
? Good knowledge of processes
and systems in the functional P2P area (purchasing and
accounts payable)
? Good communicative and
social skills
? Very accurate and
consistent work
? Pursue and propagate the
rules
7. Required level of experiences
? Experience in P2P processes
being purchasing and/or accounts payables (>2 years)
? Commercial education and
mindset
? Proven track record in
dealing with P2P systems
8. Behaviors and explanation
? Customer service-oriented
attitude
? Accurate and disciplined
? Clear communicator (able to
diagnose and escalate issues)
? Able to structure work