IBM Hiring for Procurement Professional at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

Your Role and Responsibilities

Fundamental Components & Physical Requirements:
As an Operations Professional, the responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Review requisition requirements and work efficiently with requesters and/or client employees to fulfill the requisition in the form of a Purchase Order to the appropriate Supplier.

Recognize Non Catalog Purchases that should be directed to a Catalog Solution

Work efficiently with requester/client for additional information or any questions

Determine Source from Sourcing provided Master File

Negotiate cost savings and terms when applicable (non contracted sources)

Procurement of low dollar purchases services (including source identification as needed)

Price and delivery Confirmation

PO Order receipt Confirmation

Knowledge of all client specific processes and procedures

Complete Customer requests for set up of new suppliers including providing applicable information

Interface with clients and suppliers on supplier and payment issues in conjunction with tactical commodity manager

Maintain all relevant supplier documentation

Ensure audit readiness of all purchasing documents

Work with cluster leads and team lead

Resolve blocked invoices

Expedite and Emergency Orders and follow up on deliveries

Perform special projects as needed

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

College Degree or equivalent work experience required—preferably in Business, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Supply Chain Management and/or related field

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Minimum 0-1 years’ experience in Supply or Operations Management

Prior experience with working effectively across different teams, processes and technologies to attain desired business, operational and compliance results.

About Business Unit

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

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For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.