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Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
The Buy@IBM Center of Excellence team is a made up of several different squads including the handsfree squad, the procurement administration squad, and the sourcing RFx squad to name a few. These squads support the procurement sourcing buyer squads in system administration, handsfree / buy channel configuration including catalogs, and supporting complex RFx events. The team is engaged in consulting with the buyer squads on implementing best practices, reducing workload, and optimize the available procurement applications for business needs.
The team works well and shares responsibilities across the squad to deliver on SLAs to IBM Procurement. The team is always improving and has a continuous growth mindset. The team members are cross trained in multiple areas to support fluctuating business needs.
The squads also support new country deployments on Buy@IBM as well as Softlayer deployment needs. The team interlocks with Procurement One Place, CIO Level 2, and the supplier enablement team to deliver seamlessly to the clients.
Procurement transformation product owners are consulted and provide direction and education on new and existing tool capabilities within the procurement applications. IBM COE team works with them to identify business needs and solution the procurement requests as needed in areas of function as well as technical support.
For the Japan wave 10 rollout, we are looking to initially hire someone with Level 1 or Level 2 Japanese language skills who can help with communication with IBMs suppliers to set up handsfree/no touch purchase order processing. The communication will require both verbal and written language skills in a business formal setting. The technical skills listed below will be more secondary initially with the candidate able to move into those skills in more depth over the next 2 months.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
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Ability to learn new applications and business processes
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Ability to transfer business needs into application administration changes to support procurement goals of workload reduction and better user experience
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Good communication skills – both written and spoken in Japanese AND English
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Minimum of Level N2 Japanese certification required
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Skills to take ownership and drive open items to closure
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Growth mindset
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Customer success mindset
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Experience utilizing procurement applications across multiple domains including but not limited to CAAPS, SAP and Buy@IBM
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Understanding of IBM procurement business processes
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Knowledge of the procurement BlueBook
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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Experience using CDA, CSA, Bond, GCF, etc would be ideal
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Procurement sourcing experience
About Business UnitThe 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.
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