Associate buyer vs procurement agent

Differences between associate buyer and procurement agent duties and responsibilities

Associate buyer example responsibilities.

• Define and manage sales, markdowns, inventories (OTB plans) achieving financial objectives for all years in position.
• Manage numerous RFP processes for the non-technology services.
• Support include identifying and qualifying vendors, manage process for select RFP's and assist with bid assessments.
• Work closely with planner and buyer to manage OTB and determine when to maximize business and when to protect liabilities.
• Manage and develop successful relationships with top luxury watch and jewelry brands.
• Coordinate and provide direction to inventory teams by managing product placement, open-to-buy, and logistics.
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Procurement agent example responsibilities.

• Achieve $200k cost savings buy locating excess material from OEM.
• Manage project size OEM bills of material from supplier negotiation through final invoice.
• Monitor and manage cost of components for bill of material (BOM), schedule lead times and performance with budgets.
• Prepare strategic commodity business plans for globally manage commodities, performing spend analysis, and identifying part cost drivers.
• Process purchase requisitions to POs for different commodities for MCI s end-user community.
• Perform category spend analysis of indirect spend for hotel expenses to determine hotel candidates for 2010 RFP corporate rate negotiations.
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