Buyer

JOB SUMMARY

The Buyer is responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and purchasing materials, equipment, and services required for the Pikka Project. This role ensures cost-effective procurement and purchase order lifecycle management while maintaining quality, reliability, and compliance with industry regulations and company policies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Ensure procurement is completed in alignment with contract compliance and strategies, following all policies to yield best value to Company.
• Purchase materials according to required technical specifications, price, delivery schedule and terms, negotiating with main suppliers and periodically renewing price lists, terms, and conditions.
• Oversee support provided by third party procurement services to ensure alignment with Company procedures.
• Initiate purchase orders according to the purchase requisitions and in alignment with standard procedures.
• Manage the complete purchase order lifecycle from creation through to closure, ensuring timely processing, accurate tracking, invoice resolution and proper documentation at each stage.
• Oversee supplier performance (on-time delivery, quality, lead time) and resolving performance issues.
• Identify and qualify new suppliers together with supplier quality and engineering team members.
• Align supplier orders with customer requirements in terms of content, quality, delivery, sustainability, and price.
• Work closely with and provide a high degree of professional SCM support services to internal stakeholders.
• Help to monitor and ensure process compliance as it relates to SCM activities.
• Align and work closely with Logistics and Materials Management when it comes to expediting and receipting of Goods.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other buyers, sharing expertise and best practices to support their professional development.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance ways of working and actively supporting the implementation of process and technology changes within the team and across stakeholder groups.
• Support AES zero-incident safety culture and assume personal accountability and responsibility for safe work practices in all projects, activities, and operations.
• Other duties will be assigned to this position as needed.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• 4 years relevant work experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience in purchasing
• Experience working with ERP systems for procurement and supply chain management
• Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, pivot table, combining large data sets, and complex formula development to support procurement reporting and decision making

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience working in the oil & gas industry
• SAP experience