At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. Job Overview TE Connectivity's Purchasing Teams are responsible for obtaining materials, components, equipment and services, gather quotations, examine bids, and award contracts. They perform cost analysis and volume planning for commodities, evaluate vendor reliability and develop new supply sources where required. They coordinate purchasing activities with the manufacturing and engineering departments to maintain inventory at planned levels and monitor cost, schedule, and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value. They also look for and recommend cost saving proposals including make vs. buy analysis, alternative sourcing, and vendor evaluation criteria as well as develop specifications for new contract orders. What your background should look like:

Position Justification:  

In order to drive efficient back-office operations, TE Connectivity wants to establish insourced regional shared service centers (*) to support centralized processing of selected procurement functions such as PR/PO processing, compliance checks, supplier set-up/change requests, procurement helpdesk, invoice price issues resolutions, etc.

(*) PSC: Procurement Shared Center

Key attributes of this role include:
•    Experience in a procurement shared service center supporting multiple countries / business units
•    Experience working for a Manufacturing company preferred
•    Good understanding of end-to-end S2P processes and associated technology platforms 
•    Excellent organizational and analytical skills, solid problem solving and detail oriented

Key Responsibilities:
•    Support migration of Indirect Procurement processes from Dalian China to Suzhou and prepare Indirect Procurement related process documentation (process maps and work instructions)
•    Handle and resolve escalated procurement processing issues
•    Maintain supplier master data information in relevant systems
•    Ensure proper processing of PR’s and PO’s 
•    Perform compliance checks 
•    Expedite POs 
•    Answer tickets (Procurement Helpdesk)
•    Manage invoice pricing issues
•    Create, maintain Info Record & source lists
•    Spot Buy / Requisition Based Sourcing
•    Execute all procurement activities in-scope
•    Prepare and process eRFQ’s
•    Smaller Contract (value/complexity) negotiation & execution 
•    Execution of Projects assigned by Commodity Management 
•    Desk Research and Price Comparison
•    Supplier training on tools
•    End-user Trainings
•    Savings reporting

Qualifications:
•    Good Experience in Indirect Procurement (5+ years)
•    Previous experience in shared service environment
•    Good of MS office; very good Excel and other relevant tools for the function
•    SAP PR2, S/4 
•    Good communication skills  
•    Very good English & Mandarin language skills in speech and writing 
•    Diversified Industrial Products/Manufacturing industry experience preferred
•    Good command of other languages is a very important asset

Business Competencies
•    Eager to learn
•    Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
•    Able to deal with complexity 
•    Adaptability and Flexibility
•    Good analytics
•    Positive attitude
•    Team player, hands-on attitude
•    Customer Focus
 

Competencies Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork