Principal Buyer

NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.

In today’s ‘iNTTerconnected’ world, connections matter more now than ever. By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world’s most significant technological, business and societal challenges.

With people at the heart of our success, NTT is committed to attracting and growing the best talent and providing an environment where everyone feels they can belong and their contribution matters.

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Plans, schedules and monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle to determine required materials purchases. Obtains materials using engineering and production schedules to maintain inventory at planned levels (i.e., Just in Time purchases, use of EOQ - Economic Order Quantities). Resolves discrepancies. Creates and maintains bills of material and parts/commodities numbers in supply chain management or other enterprise wide systems. Ensures material standards are met and non-conformances or variances are approved and/or minimized. Develops specifications for new contract orders. Gathers quotations, examines bids and makes awards. Monitors cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value. Evaluates vendor reliability and develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive.

**Working at NTT**

The Procurement Planner and Buyer takes plans, schedules and monitors logistics and supply chain services provided by NTT with the objective of achieving cost benefits, delivery reliability and customer satisfaction through the best possible solutions (flow of material, value, information) as well as optimising the processes and the use of resources. They align with logistics and supply chain teams, vendors, preferred suppliers and contractors to ensure service delivery to the internal and external client in accordance with the Service Level Agreements (SLA). These individuals contribute to the execution of a logistics and supply chain strategy that defines the connection and combination of activities and functions throughout the value chain including B2B Integration (i.e., Business to Business integration, automation, and optimisation of key processes).

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Work closely with the sales team to identify opportunities to up sell logistics and supply chain solutions and to track other opportunities that may emerge
- Contribute to pre-sales processes and provide information that enables the decision-making process related to the effort required to deliver and generally providing advice on the most optimal way to approach the client
- Plan, schedule and monitor the movement of materials through the production cycle to determine required material purchases
- Obtain and/or purchase materials using schedules to maintain inventory at planned levels
- Create and maintain bill of materials
- Ensure materials standard are met and variances are approved and/or minimised
- Identify opportunities for growth within the assigned portfolio and work closely with the pre-sales and sales team to maximise opportunities
- Monitors cost, schedule, and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value
- Maintain an awareness of the competitive landscape for assigned portfolios
- Collaborate with the sales teams they assist with the development of strategies to ensure account retention
- Stay abreast of changes in the market and recommend improvements to solutions offerings to meet client demand
- Use probing questions and a conversational approach to explore and uncover the client’s needs
- Personalise the recommended solution in line with the client’s need
- Demonstrate capability (features, advantages and benefits) at a detailed level
- Offer unique perspectives and align insights to key client priorities
- Convince clients to choose to do business with NTT, by pre-empting stakeholder objections and pushing the client to a favorable outcome
- Aim to generate revenue and exploit opportunities, whilst displaying notable client service orientation
- Work closely with vendors to understand their strategies for solutions and services and articulate the roadmap and associated impacts for clients
- Develop procedures and systems for commercial logistics and supply chain projects
- Review draft commercial demands and develop project plans to ensure commercial readiness
- Act as the point of escalation for the client
- Ensure that a culture of service management excellence is developed and maintained by the logistics and supply chain team.
- Ensure the identification of risks to supply chain delivery
- Drive the implementation of the appropriate solutions to reduce the likelihood of escalations and/or delivery impact to the client
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