About The Role

Source-to-Pay Procurement Operations and Accounts Payable – Analyst ( JAPAN )

Ensure effective and efficient execution of the operational activities of Procurement Operation s, such as supporting sourcing activities, negotiation, resolving operational procurement issues and act as an interface between Market Users, Suppliers, and the procurement community to support & simplify guided buying following set purchasing standards & policies.

PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS

Role responsibilities

Strong team player with the ability to work effectively across functions to support guided buying to internal Diageo users
Collaborate efficiently with the Category P rocurement team to support standard s ourcing as well as c omplex s ourcing activities.
Organize & conduct competitive sourcing requests through FairMarkit
Perform sourcing activities, commercial negotiations & contract management (if applicable) for spend of no more than US $50k. Ensure delivery of financial and non-financial/compliance targets for the market. This includes but is not limited to providing market analyses, price / service-level benchmarking, sourcing events, supplier negotiations and ongoing supplier relationship management
Embed best in class procurement category excellence capability and process, i.e. sourcing, contract management, risk and supplier performance management, as well as introducing supplier collaboration models with strategic suppliers.
Provide comprehensive analysis on events conducted.
Able to handle queries from supplier s & market stakeholders in supporting the procurement activity to run tenders.
Manage & resolve BAU issues and queries as per SLA.
Build, maintain , and foster a sustainable relationship with Key Stakeholders such as the Category Procurement team , Suppliers , and Market Users among others
Review, analyze , and interpret various reports & drive global KPI improvement s .
Provide meaningful information on spend & buying pattern s per category to the Category Procurement Team; and align with them to drive key strategic changes per category in order to reduce or optimize spend.
Able to engage remotely and across time zones in collaborating with diverse cultures
Identify opportunities to minimize operational & administrative activities for the Procurement team.
Create & Maintain DTPs, Knowledge Management articles for procurement & users.
Able to actively participat e & conduct trainings on process updates & compliance
Be the subject matter expert o n tasks and activities performed under Procurement Operations (have extensive sourcing and negotiation skills, contract checking and management, project management, etc.)
Be involved with the team in resolv ing critical/difficult issue s and escalation s .

Accounts Payable

Role responsibilities

Ensure timely and accurate quality check of invoices, including online payment (OLP) requests and down payments (DP).
Quality checks are effective and evidenced by zero quality issues on Parked and blocked invoices
Invoices returned to vendor (RTV) are followed up to get replacement invoice meeting quality criteria and this is posted in a timely manner to forestall any impact on KPIs especially Payment to terms (PTT).
Assist in resolving supplier and business queries related to accounts payable and executing the control requirements.

Location and Skills

Must be willing to work onsite in the Diageo office in Tokyo , Japan
Must have advanced to native level business Japanese and English language skills
Experience in Procurement-related systems such as SAP, Coupa, FairMarkit, and PowerBi preferable
Experience in processing and managing Accounts Payable-related tasks preferrable