DESCRIPTION
Infinidat is looking for an experienced purchasing specialist looking to grow professionally in a dynamic leading company. You will be responsible, among other responsibilities, for leading the global Sales, Marketing, HR and welfare categories.
As a subject matter expert in this category, this position is expected to significantly contribute to the procurement team by working closely with global teams to understand their business needs, identify potential suppliers, negotiate contracts, and manage vendors relationships. You will lead procurement strategies and initiatives to ensure the company sticks to budget and profitability
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Independently manage Sales, Marketing, HR and welfare categories.
- Conduct supply market research to provide category intelligence and benchmarks on industry dynamics, trends, and best practices.
- Build excellent relationships with respective global functions in the organization to understand their procurement needs, act as a subject matter expert and effectively lead procurement initiatives.
- Conduct due diligence to new potential suppliers and pre-qualify them before establishing a business relationship.
- Negotiating with suppliers to achieve best terms and commercial results.
- Identify and lead cost reduction initiatives to achieve financial goals.
- Review existing and new contracts with suppliers to ensure compliance with procurement policies and lead their renewals.
- Build and maintain long term relationships with suppliers and monitor suppliers' performance.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Technologies Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field
- 3 years’ experience and In-depth knowledge of managing Sales, Marketing, HR and welfare categories at international companies.
- Proven experience managing procurement of over $4 million, budget tracking, cost reduction and cost avoidance activities.
- Strong sourcing, market research capabilities and long term suppliers’ management.
- Proven track in executing complex legal agreements, striving to minimize contractual risks.
- Excellent negotiation, communication skills, presentation, both written and spoken English and Hebrew.
- Self-driven with ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
- Solid skills in Microsoft office knowledge (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point, BI tools), ERP – NetSuite – advantage
- Fluent Hebrew and English (verbal and written) – Must
About Infinidat
Award-winning Infinidat is a global provider of enterprise storage platforms and solutions. Installed in Global Fortune 500 companies around the world supporting a wide variety of applications and use cases, our software defined storage architecture delivers microsecond latency, autonomous automation, powerful cyber storage resilience, 100% guaranteed availability, and dramatically reduces enterprise storage CAPEX and OPEX.
The company’s portfolio has been named a Leader for five consecutive years in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for primary storage, as well as numerous other awards from the storage analyst and storage press community.
Our success continues to be based on the talent, experience, and motivation of employees who leverage their skills and abilities to make a real impact in the industry.
If you have the power to be the best of the best, we would love to have you join the Infinidat family and make a mark as an essential player in our company’s growth.
