Buyer - Direct Materials, Myanmar

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Position Overview:

As a Buyer – Direct Materials at Ball, you will be 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. 

Your key responsibilities include:

• 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 are we looking for?

• Associate degree or equivalent, certifications are a plus
• 3-4 years of relevant experience in buying, procurement, or a similar role (experience in high-speed manufacturing environments is an advantage)
• Basic financial and analytical skills, and effective oral and written communication
• Knowledge of ERP systems and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Solid analytical and financial skills, with strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills with ability to adapt to changing circumstances, change and ambiguity effectively
• Fluency in English (other languages are an advantage)

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. 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.
 

No agencies please.