Sourcing Manager, Administration - Ostrava

In this role, you will see yourself executing sourcing and purchasing activities, including understanding the stakeholders' needs, conducting market research, providing regular feedback and status updates to stakeholders, facilitating vendor communication and negotiations, purchase order management and administration. In this role you will also conduct some Contract Management tasks and reporting.

To be successful, you will need to be a well-organized, self-starting individual with proven knowledge and experience in purchasing/sourcing goods and services, a good understanding of contracting documentation, invoicing, accounts payable, and procurement processes, comfortable also in working on operational tasks, and enjoy working independently in a multicultural and diverse environment with minimal supervision.

What will be your key responsibilities:

• Fulfil requests for sourcing and purchasing of goods or services, across multiple purchase categories and locations

• Conduct market research and identify appropriate sourcing options

• Review and evaluate supplier proposals, in direct communication with suppliers and business stakeholders, compile comparison reports, and facilitate decision analysis as required

• Liaise with the Contract Management and Legal teams, to ensure terms and conditions relating to goods/services procurement contain all details of the negotiation

• Oversee contract and agreement close-outs, change orders, amendments, extensions, or renewals

• Assist with supplier onboarding, purchasing and contractual documentation and related archiving, in the Document Management System

• Create, update and process Purchase/Work Orders (P/WO) and execute full cycle processing

• Guide and train internal stakeholders and requestors on Purchasing and Contracting processes. Act as a subject matter expert for business stakeholders in sourcing, purchasing and/or relevant contract management

• Respond and address ad hoc requests and administrative duties

What experience should you have:

• Previous experience in purchasing, sourcing, procurement – at least 3+ years

• Understanding of contractual documentation procedures

• Detail oriented, proactive, and solution oriented

• Strong collaboration, communication and soft skills set.

• At minimum a keen interest in negotiation skills and a business mindset

• Able to work independently and multitask effectively

• Knowledge of MS Office (365)/Word/Excel/Outlook/SharePoint, JIRA will be a plus

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

What do you get in return:

• The contract is for an indefinite period of time. We count on you!

• Work partially or completely remote. Work from wherever it suits you.

• Extra holidays. We have 25 days off plus 2 sick days.

• We contribute from 10 400 CZK per year. You name it. Choose from contributions for pension and life insurance, sports, culture, health, travel or education in the cafeteria.

• Educate yourself. We regularly organise and pay for IT courses, certifications, language training and personal development courses.

• 90 CZK meal allowance on top of your salary.

• Reward for a new colleague. Refer another colleague to us and get up to 100,000 CZK.

• Stay fit and fresh. In Ostrava, use the free fitness facilities in the building, in other locations, do sports with Multisport.

• And the last one, but the most important one - Nordic culture. At Tietoevry, we believe in you. No one is breathing down your neck and checking every minute of your work. We are friendly and open.

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