Procurement Requisitions Associate

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Johnson & Johnson is currently mapping for a **REQUISITIONS TO PAY ASSOCIATE **located in **Bogota, Colombia.**

The R2P Associate will be responsible for being the “single point of contact” (SPOC) for interactions between the requesters and business partners and the sourcing specialists, category leaders, accounts payable specialists and Helpdesk, ensuring a positive and compliant end user experience. These interactions would primarily be (but not limited to) providing general assistance to their purchases needs, processing and supporting their transactions, system doubts/issues, and general assistance in such as requisition creation, PO creation, receiving, invoice block resolution, PO closer and status updates.

As an Associate you will be accountable for crafting a seamless experience for the requestor/business partner when using the Procurement services by coordinating the processes/interactions with the different partners and support areas. As well as receive, analyze, and resolve procurement process inquiries and disputes.

You will lead and exceed the different targets to your specific category and ensure full partnership with Sourcing, Category Leaders and Country Leads to achieve main critical metrics. You need a strong reporting/data analysis to ensure opportunities are mapped and properly carried out. You will monitor compliance and conduct business review meetings, providing insights and crafting action plans to contribute to a flawless and efficient process.

You are also responsible for insuring compliance to the defined processes when engaging with the various end users (requestor, business partner, suppliers, fellow associates). Lastly, this role will have the primary responsibility for crafting and maintaining supplier data in concert with its use within the source-to-settle process.

You could lead certain specific processes within the area and provide the guideline and strategy to ensure they are aligned to regional/global targets.

Part of the role is to have continues improvement by mapping and leading initiatives and projects, locally, regionally, or globally to ensure customer experience is the central reason of this. As well to support initiative related to automations, data analysis, reporting, efficiencies. Etc.

**Qualifications**:

- A bachelor degree is required, with a preferred concentration in Economics, Finance, Industrial Engineer, Business Administration, Accounting.
- 3-5 years of related experience in procurement. Shared Services experience is a plus.
- Knowledge of Procurement processes (Requisitioning, PO, Invoicing). Demonstrated proficiency with Procurement or Finance/Accounting/Taxes/ Administrative processes.
- Experience interacting with customer (customer service experience)
- Strong MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills. Experience with Ariba and/or EMarketplace and/or SAP is preferred.
- For this role it is required to speak English at a proficient level, and if you have Portuguese is desired.
- Excellent customer services skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills with the demonstrated ability to interact with various levels of the organization.
- Six Sigma Black and/or Green Belt is preferred

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