Indirect Buyer

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

Position Overview:

As an Indirect Buyer, you are a key member of the Global Procurement team; reporting to the Global Indirect Director.  You will contribute to the success of Ball  by ensuring that plants have the necessary goods and services procured to ensure a timely and trouble-free production.

Your Key Areas of Responsibility Include:

• Monitor and manage supply and inventory for the plant and serving as the central buyer for items needed by plant personnel (PPE, Indirect, etc.) 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.  
• Conduct reporting for expiring or aged Purchase Order’s (PO’s), PO administration, clean up, and close out.  
• Serve as a resource and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for questions/issues relating to buying processes for stakeholders.
• 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.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in business-related discipline or equivalent education and experience.
• 1-2 years of relevant experience in buying or similar procurement type of position.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, specifically  Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, Teams.
• Experience creating and and manipulating basic spreadsheets and Word documents.
• Demonstrated skills:
  • Procurement-related policies, procedures and processes.
  • Basic financial and analytical skills, and strong attention to detail.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to influence for positive outcomes. 
  • Completing routine procurement transactions effectively, efficiently and accurately from requisition to purchase order close in a fast-paced environment.
  • Stakeholder management skills; strong interpersonal business relationship building skills.
  • Ability to work independently to meet deadlines, prioritize, organize, and multitask.
  • Ability to apply sound judgment and adapt to changing circumstances. 

Preferred Experience and Skills: 

• Experience in a high-speed repetitive manufacturing environment.
• Multi-lingual  desired (Spanish, Portuguese, German or others).
• ERP systems (such Oracle, SAP ) and procure-to-pay process.
• Familiarity with can manufacturing products, practices, terminology.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hiring Salary Range: $66,000 - $92,200 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
• Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, please visit our career site and click  "Total Rewards" to learn more.
• Hybrid On-Site Work Environment: Based in Westminster, CO this position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site for three (3) or more days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Travel (up to 10%) and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

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 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.