Buyer, Services

About the Role

The Buyer - Services - Africa & Middle East Countries role at Michelin involves building and developing market expertise from the sourcing phase through end-to-end execution to maximize business performance. The position ensures the proper execution of the Purchasing process across the supplier relationship lifecycle. The candidate will act as a buyer for countries in the Africa Middle East Region and will reinforce Purchasing processes, practices, and mindsets in supported countries.

Countries supported:

• United Arab Emirates
• Morocco
• Nigeria
• Republic of South Africa

Purchase families: Services domain, all families.

Key Responsibilities

• Source to Contract: Own and deliver the process output from requirement specifications to contract signed. Educate users on the process and ensure adherence.
• Request to Pay: Own and deliver the process output from request received to PO issued. Educate users on the process and ensure adherence.

Key Deliverables & KPIs

• Purchasing Savings (cost reduction and cost avoidance)
• Purchasing Terms of Payment
• Innovation With Suppliers
• Payment on Time
• Touchless Purchase Orders & Invoice Payments
• BEE Supplier Score deliverables in the Republic of South Africa

Tools (familiarity desirable, training will be imparted)

• Oracle Prod 2 (for UAE)
• Business Central (for Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa)
• Ivalua (for competitive bidding)
• Hermes (for contract management)
• PowerBI (for dashboard)
• Microsoft Office fluency is a must (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
• Ability to use Aurora AI is desirable as a selection criteria, with increasing future expectation.

Key Qualities & Traits

• Structured, analytical and rational thinking, using data and events as evidence.
• Learning mindset: ability to quickly learn new metier & approaches.
• Communication: precise and concise articulation, coupled with good listening.
• Assertiveness, to hold your ground in defense of the process when faced with stakeholders.
• Basic understanding of project management.
• Basic understanding of process improvement principles.
• Basic understanding of change management principles.
• Ability to synthesize situations, then develop and systematically and autonomously deploy actions consistent with the synthesis.
• Negotiation skills.

Language Skills

• Strong English language skills are mandatory.

Stakeholder Interaction

• Key skill for interaction with 4 different countries and cultures.

Work from office expectations are consistent with the prevailing company policy. Travel expectations are very occasional, maximum once per year if required.