Product Purchasing Specialist

Brenntag Kimya Tic.Ltd.Şti.

JOB DESCRIPTION & REQUIRED BUSINESS ACUMEN

- Developing a quality&price-oriented strategy focused both on new product obtaining and customer satisfaction.

- Presenting deep knowledge for chemical raw material analysis

- Purchase chemical raw material / products from a selected and negotiated supplier portfolio, make a single sourcing for key account customers’ requirements

- Need deep customer orientation, coordinate selling across all key account customers (forecast/budget focus)

- Set/recommend product pricing range/band for account managers

- Stock planning according to the forecasts of the customers and/or monthly.

- Managing and following reguarly more than 250-300 products in stock, planning orders and following all stages after placing orders.

- Conducting effective research to identify new perceptions and customer needs with expanding customer portfolio, to offer new products.

- Making potential customer, market, sector, product and competitor researches.

- Managing the relations of customers and reporting properly as it required in the company.

- Increasing the value of existing customers while attracting new ones in regards of changing expectations, market facts on products and company policies and targets while planning and overseeing new initiatives.

- Preparing relevant weekly, monthly, quarterly reports for disposed/damages/slow moversensuring adherence to law-established rules, company procedures and guidelines.

- Keeping required records of all data and maintaining trustworthy feedback for sales teams.

- Delivering accurate product facts on a periodic basis and establishing/managing the proper communication lines for that.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering Or Chemistry, preferably from reputable universities.

- 3-6 years of trackable experience in product management.

- Fluency in English and excellent numeric reinterpretation skill set.

- Ability to maintain long-lasting relations in with excellent communication and process management skills.

- Leverage understanding of business, operating and financial environments and customer needs to deliver results.

- Demonstratable ability to deliver results during uncertainty, despite changes and ambiguity.

- Proactively helping understand towards the others and responding to their business needs to build strong working relationships.

- Pro-active self-starter, willing to accept responsibility for business tasks.