Description
Diageo, a leading multinational spirits, beer, and wine company with over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, is seeking a Source to Pay - Procurement Operations - Analyst. You will play a crucial role in ensuring effective and efficient execution of operational activities in Procurement Operations.
Responsibilities:
- Support sourcing activities, negotiation, and resolve operational procurement issues
- Act as an interface between Market Users, Suppliers, and the procurement community to support and simplify guided buying
- Organize and conduct competitive sourcing requests through FairMarkit
- Perform sourcing activities, commercial negotiations, and contract management for spend up to US $50k
- Embed best-in-class procurement category excellence capability and process
- Provide comprehensive analysis on events conducted and drive global KPI improvements
- Build and maintain relationships with Key Stakeholders, including Category Procurement team, Suppliers, and Market Users
- Identify opportunities to minimize operational and administrative activities for the Procurement team
- Create and maintain DTPs, Knowledge Management articles for procurement and users
- Participate and conduct trainings on process updates and compliance
Accounts Payable:
- Ensure timely and accurate quality check of invoices, including online payment requests and down payments
- Follow up on returned invoices to get replacement invoices meeting quality criteria
- Assist in resolving supplier and business queries related to accounts payable
Requirements:
- Advanced to native level business Japanese and English language skills
- Experience in Procurement-related systems such as SAP, Coupa, FairMarkit, and PowerBi
- Experience in processing and managing Accounts Payable-related tasks
- Willingness to work onsite in the Diageo office in Tokyo, Japan