Office & Purchasing Specialist
Date: Dec 4, 2024
Location: Bucharest, RO
Company: Tenneco
This is a great opportunity to join us as an Office & Purchasing Specialist in our Bucharest office. This position ensures general admin support with a focus on procurement activities for the company's local office.
Key Responsibilities
Centralizing needs and creating orders in SAP
- Centralizing the internal needs and places orders to suppliers – stationery, office supplies, equipment, offices
- Monthly orders to suppliers based on contracts (quantities and assortments desired)
- Verification with the Financial department of the estimates of amounts available for orders
- Drafting and sending the order to the supplier, sending the PO
Supplier relationship management
- Discussions with internal clients to understand their needs
- Identification of potential suppliers
- Transmission of requests for tenders to suppliers
- Comparing and negotiating offers
- Feedback to suppliers and follow up until the moment of obtaining the final product / service
- Maintaining the relationship with suppliers, updating new offers, annual negotiation of tariffs, etc.
- Participates in the evaluation of the companies providing indirect services
Billing support activities
- Check information and cost of invoices that are not registered in SAP
- Confirm information to the Financial department
- Follow-up with all department managers whether or not they have received the invoices from the current month
- Follow-up with suppliers for receiving signed and stamped OPs, in original (as the case may be)
- Manages payments made with the company card (P- card)
Admin and Facility support
- Back office support with facility management requests, cleaning , maintenance & office inventory
- Logistic support with event management, external visitors protocol, travel
- Occasional back up support for reception desk (during leave )
- Support with admin HSE record keeping & planning as per need
What will make you successful
- Minimum 2 years experience in administrative activities of acquisitions, front desk or other admin jobs
- Good to have experience in SAP
- Knowledge of purchasing procedures and processes
- Good writing and speaking skills in English
- University degree or additional professional experience equivalent to studies
- Good working skills in Excel
- Organization and attention to detail
- Result-oriented and compliance with deadlines
- Negotiating and persuasion skills
- Ability to collect and select data, fast and correct execution of analyses
- Managing ambiguity
- Problem solving mindset
What we offer
We want to make you feel welcomed, challenged, and inspired. So, we’ve carefully put together a blend of benefits meant to boost your health and well-being, to ensure your personal and professional growth and your integration in a pleasant day-to-day working environment.
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