Senior Procurement Support Specialist
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Full Job Description
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
At Proofpoint we offer and value the following, “Good work life balance”, “Excellent Compensation and benefits” and most importantly a culture & colleagues that inspires people to do their best”
Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organisations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
The Role
We are looking for a Procurement Process Support Specialist to join our fast-paced, high-performing team. This individual will be an integral part of the Procurement team. This is a great opportunity that will allow for career growth as the Company continues to expand! The Procurement Process Support Specialist will support the achievement of the Procurement team objectives and contribute to the planning of the unit's objectives and will advise and support stakeholders throughout the full procurement process.
Your day-to-day
- Process Non-Disclosure Agreements for new vendors and for RFx participants.
- Provides support on RFx process by working with the requestor to develop the RFx.
- Review, approve and process New Vendor Add requests.
- Works with vendors to ensure the accuracy of their data within the Vendor Add process.
- Certifies the authenticity of Vendor banking information.
- Run reports on renewals and publish to stakeholders.
- Review documents in the Contract Database for accuracy.
- Update Procurement and Finance policies and webpages.
- Create and maintain a catalog of existing vendors by department.
- Run quarterly financial spend analysis by department.
- Provide guidance to requestors on policy and process information.
- Support internal requestors with questions regarding agreements and renewals.
- Responsible for identifying and implementing process improvements.
- Creates purchase requisitions and purchase orders and monitors the approval process.
- Helps to maintain and train others on the Vendor contract management software.
What you bring to the team
- Proven success in procurement
- Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, supply chain management or a related discipline preferred
- Strong relationship and customer service skills
- Experience communicating and working with vendors.
- Ability to analyze data and effectively communicate and provide recommendations.
- Thrives in a work environment that is fast paced, dynamic and constantly changing.
- Highly organized and detailed, with strong multi-tasking skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication ability,
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Dynamics 365, JIRA, and Agiloft software a plus.
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we
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