Buyer - Direct Materials, India

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Your Opportunity to Make an Impact 

At Ball, every role contributes to something bigger. Learn how this opportunity will allow you to grow your career while making a lasting impact on our business, our communities, and our planet: 

Buyer is responsible for ensuring that goods and services are procured as necessary to ensure supply for the plant and will also be heavily involved in PO lifecycle management activities, such as PO conversion, PO troubleshooting, reporting for expiring or aged POs, PO administration, clean up, and close out. 

The Buyer will also serve as a subject matter expert and a point of contact for questions and issues relating to the buying processes for the stakeholders in their location and will also be tasked with monitoring and managing supply and inventory for the plant and serving as the central buyer for items needed by plant personnel (PPE, Indirects, etc.). 

How You'll Make a Difference 

The responsibilities below represent more than daily tasks. They are opportunities to make a difference, collaborate with talented colleagues, and contribute to meaningful outcomes: 

• Ensure that goods and services are procured for the organization.
• Review incoming purchase requisitions and where necessary, complete and enter purchase orders into ERP systems and ensure that the process for approval is complete and accurate. 
• Reporting for expiring or aged POs, PO administration, clean up, and close out. 
• Serve as a resource and SME for questions/issues relating to buying processes for stakeholders in their location
• Support Category Managers with spend analytics and requirements gathering and by executing best-in-class processes
• Identify and present process improvement opportunities
• Assess and evaluate suppliers and contribute to performance reviews.
• Work with suppliers to resolve price, quality, or delivery issues.
• Were necessary, is responsible for ensuring that a new startup plant has the necessary goods and services procured to ensure a timely and trouble-free startup.

What Helps You Thrive in This Role 

We're looking for curious minds, collaborative spirits, and motivated professionals ready to make an impact. Here are the skills and experiences that will help you succeed in this role: 

• Min 5 years of relevant experience in buying or similar position
• Engineering educational background
• Basic financial and analytical skills, and effective oral and written communication, interpersonal and influence skills.
• Working knowledge of ERP systems, Microsoft Office suite, particularly Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Experience working in manufacturing environment
• Fluent in English and Hindi

​Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world. 
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference. 
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

Job Grade: Global Grade 9