Senior Buyer Procurement Operations

Senior Buyer Procurement Operations Buying Simplified | Chennai or Ahmedabad, India Full-time Hybrid (23 days from office each week) Evening shift (approx. 4:00 PM 01:00 AM IST) Experience: 59 years in procurement, sourcing, or purchasing operations. WHO WE ARE Buying Simplified is a US-headquartered procurement and finance operations firm. We run the buying function for companies whose spend is growing faster than their teams biotech and pharma, medical devices, semiconductor, technology, and business services. We are not a staffing company and we are not a consultancy that writes a report and leaves. We own the work. Purchase requisitions, sourcing events, supplier negotiations, contract administration, PO management, vendor onboarding, catalogue and spend data running inside our clients' own systems, to their own policies, as if we were their team. Clients keep us for years, often through funding rounds, ERP migrations, and IPOs. We also build our own AI. Our GenieWorks platform, built on Claude and AWS, sits on top of the work we deliver sourcing intelligence, contract analysis, spend classification, invoice automation. You will use it every day, and what you tell us about it changes how it gets built. And we run Procurement League, a global community of 51,000+ procurement professionals. Our people are part of it, speak at it, and learn from it. THE ROLE We are hiring Senior Buyers. This is a hands-on buying role with real ownership. You will be the buyer for one or two US client accounts, working directly with their stakeholders engineering, R&D, lab operations, IT, facilities, marketing to convert demand into sourced, negotiated, compliant purchases. You will run your own RFQs. You will negotiate your own supplier terms. You will be the person a client's requester messages when they need something bought properly and quickly. We are deliberately industry-agnostic in this hire. Good buyers transfer. What we care about is whether you can pick up an unfamiliar category, find the right suppliers, ask sharp questions, and land a better outcome than the client would have got on their own. This role is for a go-getter.If you want a queue of tickets to clear, this is the wrong job. If you want to walk into a client account, find the $50K of spend nobody has looked at in three years, and do something about it keep reading. WHAT YOU'LL OWN Sourcing and negotiation Run end-to-end sourcing events RFI, RFQ, RFP from requirement gathering through supplier selection and awardBuild and maintain supplier shortlists across new and unfamiliar categoriesNegotiate pricing, payment terms, lead times, SLAs, and commercial terms directly with suppliersBenchmark quotes, build should-cost views, and defend your recommendation with dataBuying operations Own the requisition-to-PO cycle for your accounts review, clarify, source, convert, dispatch, expediteManage open PO books: acknowledgements, changes, delivery follow-up, receipt and invoice exceptionsResolve price, quantity, and three-way match discrepancies with suppliers and client APMaintain catalogues, contracted price files, and preferred supplier lists so buying stays on-contractSupplier and contract management Onboard new suppliers documentation, banking validation, compliance checks, system setupAdminister contracts, SOWs, change orders, and renewals; track expiries before they become emergenciesRun supplier performance conversations on delivery, quality, and responsivenessClient relationship Be the day-to-day buying contact for client stakeholders and their suppliersCommunicate directly with US-based requesters and procurement leads clearly, in writing and on callsReport on savings, cycle time, PO throughput, and on-contract compliance in a way a client executive can read in two minutesFinding the upside Spot maverick spend, duplicate suppliers, price creep, and tail-spend clusters and bring the opportunity forward without being askedContribute to spend analysis and category strategy work for your accountsUse our AI tooling to work faster, and tell us where it falls short WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Non-negotiable 59 years in procurement, sourcing, purchasing, or buying operationsHands-on ownership of the full buying cycle not just PO creation, but sourcing and negotiatingDemonstrated supplier negotiation experience with outcomes you can talk through in detailWorking experience in at least one major procurement or ERP platform SAP / Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, NetSuite, Ramp, Ivalua, Zycus, or similarExcellent English, written and spoken, at a level that holds its own with a US client stakeholder on an unscripted call. This will be assessed directly in the interview.Strong Excel pivots, lookups, cleaning messy vendor and spend data without complaining about itWilling and able to work the evening shift and to be in office 23 days a weekStrongly preferred Experience serving US, UK, or European .