Develop and maintain sources of supply for corporate materials, equipment, and/or services. Performs functional procurement and excess asset disposal duties of a highly visible and sensitive nature. To develop systems, processes and procedures, and provide leadership role in the management of procurement process ensuring corporate requirements of quality, reliability, and responsiveness are met or exceeded._x000D__x000D_Procures materials, equipment, or services utilizing purchase orders or contracts. Develops and implements effective programs to dispose of excess equipment, parts, and materials including direct sale, consignment, auction, and company reutilization. Assists in the development of make/buy decision analyses regarding major commodity groups and recommends solutions to the Region regarding the decision. Investigates improper/inappropriate purchases, business or contract relationships between FedEx and its vendors. and provides notification to senior management. Develops, implements, maintains, reports, and utilizes objective vendor performance history indices/measurements in regard to pricing, quality, timeliness, reliability, etc... Develops and implements and leads effective cost reduction, value analysis and value enhancement programs/projects to improve procurement performance/efficiency; performs, delegates, and leads special projects and assessments. Assists in developing and coordinating the technical development buyers and associate buyers. Maintains awareness of economic and market trends within assigned commodity groups and advises senior management in procurement decisions and provides guidelines to the users regarding contract/purchase order, negotiates, and selection of vendors. Develops, prepares bids, conducts openings, leads, and coordinates vendor negotiations and makes contract/purchase order awards in major critical/high difficulty procurements programs. Identifies, explores, and develops prime and alternative sources and products/services to provide equipment/materials/services at a better value while satisfying user requirements. Investigates, leads, directs and resolves discrepancies between vendors and FedEx and recommends programs enhancements capable of improving the business arrangements or cost effectiveness between FedEx and its vendors. Provides contract breach or renewal notice to the users, management, and to legal department. Monitors, administers, follows up, and expedites material, equipment, and/or service; purchases orders or contracts as needed to ensure that deliveries are met on schedule and quality is maintained. Develops and implements the program for disposal of unclaimed freight for the Region maintaining a tracking system to ensure accurate accountability of the disposition of all materials. Bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, law mathematics or equivalent work experience. Five years professional buying experience in a professional procurement function. Experience in negotiations, selection processes, contract formulation and broad commodity acquisitions. Knowledge of procurement computer systems and related interfacing systems. Strong negotiation, human relations, analytical and communications skills required. Fluent in English. Candidatos/as internos/as interesados/as en aplicar, subir de manera indispensable con su postulación: CV actualizado Carta Intención Resultados vigentes de Examen TOEIC (puntaje mínimo requerido: 600 pts) En caso de no subir la documentación requerida, no podrás ser considerado/a en el presente proceso. Welcome to FedEx Express Latin America and Caribbean Division Employment Opportunities Site! FedEx is widely acknowledged as a world-class company. We are honored and proud to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, a technology innovator and one of the world's most admired and respected companies. FedEx is consistently named among the World's most valuable and admired brands. Some of our recent awards include: 2020 Fortune's World Most Admired Companies (14th) 2019 Fortune's Best Places to Work (15th) 2019 Forbes's One of the "Best Employers for Diversity" 2020 FedEx LAC included in the GPTW's Best Workplaces in Latin America Ranking (24th) 2021 FedEx Mexico was included in the GPTW Ranking for 18th consecutive years 2020 FedEx Mexico received the CEMEFI Certification for 13th consecutive years endorsing FedEx as a company socially responsible 2021 FedEx Chile was re-certified with Giro Limpio, a seal from the Agency of Sustainable Energy that seeks to improve the energy efficiency of the ground transportation sector, by reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. 2019 FedEx Uruguay selected by GPTW among the 5 best companies to work for.
