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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