Apprentice - P&E Indirect

Overview

Apprentice role in Eaton's P&E Indirect procurement team, managing indirect material and service purchasing from major suppliers and strategic commodities across multiple sites.

What you'll do

• Manage the P2P cycle for indirect material, maintain supplier relationships and ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site.
• Negotiate with internal and external suppliers (net-pay terms), resolve problems, settle disputes and develop win-win solutions.
• Leverage Eaton procurement excellence tools to report Supplier Price Increase Requests and collaborate with Corporate/Business Category managers to leverage competitive suppliers.
• Manage vendor maintenance and new/change supplier add requests, follow up with the functional team to update the integrated ERP and issue amended POs on time to avoid penalties.
• Prepare and release RFQ packages with approved suppliers in line with internal policies to identify competitive suppliers and make recommendations.
• Collaborate with the functional team on cost saving projects and report strategic versus tactical purchases to the business.
• Close open orders, resolve invoice issues, reduce invoice liability and address business urgencies within SLA timelines.
• Manage and maintain all assigned current supplier contacts, business relationships and commercial responsibilities for the assigned sites.
• Assist the corporate indirect material commodity teams in implementing projects for the assigned sites.
• Support supplier questions on accounts payable and the disposition of invoice resolutions and/or payment issues.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to identify new opportunities in support of SCM strategic goals and initiatives.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's in engineering or bachelor's degree in supply chain management from an accredited university.
• Must have knowledge of Excel/Macros for operations and generating reports.
• Expert knowledge of SAP MM for managing the complete P2P cycle, and Ariba for P2P.
• Track record of demonstrating leadership and thinking and acting strategically.
• Demonstrated experience with commodity products and suppliers.
• Excellent communication, customer service and interpersonal skills to converse with diverse stakeholders including senior management, operations, SCM personnel and external suppliers.
• Knowledge of ERP system operations, functions and interfaces, enterprise reporting systems and data mining.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office applications, heavily Excel.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Power BI for creating and publishing reports in a shared space.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.