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Supply Assurance Execution Buyer

Yesterday Budapest, Hungary

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

Execution Buyer - Main responsibilities are to guarantee placement of Purchase Order (PO) and delivery of spare parts.

Your general job role responsibilities include:

Execution Buyer must ensure all parts will be shipped on the delivery date shown on the PO and escalate, if necessary, in order to guarantee continuity of supply.
- PO types: Delivery responsibility includes SAP POs for INEW (including Rework), IREP and IWAR POs.

- Integrate with supplier, TLS Supply Chain, warehouse, procurement, logistics and engineer team, will also support activities/functions related to the return of material to suppliers for repair or to claim.
- Orderbook management: Close communication with supplier to guarantee Purchase Order has been received and delivery date will be met
- Manage new buy, rework, repair and warranty order,
- Monitor and report delivery status and escalate supply issues at vendor and internally and involving other team in order to solve any issue until the parts arrive
- Handle/avoid incoming receiving issues.
- Manage PO changes (qty, price, delivery dates)

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- Participate in invoice problem handling: check and resolve problem invoice list, blocked invoices, received not billed items
- Initiate expedite payments as needed
- Critical Parts: Responsible for expediting critical parts (when requested / pointed out by TLS Supply Chain)
- PO creation: Create Purchase Orders to external suppliers and IBM manufacturing plants'
- Bids: to bid parts out when there is no contract in place and there is urgent/one time need.
- Supplier performance: Manage suppliers' on time ship performance (OTSP) for key suppliers and work on action plan for recovery
- Business projects / transformation: support new TLS projects and transformations
- Reports/Metrics: Comply and provide status on KPI of past due & unplaced PO and R-block invoices
- Support activities: Payments, credits, Logistics/Importation, End of life / Obsolete PN/ LTB (last time buy, EC(engineer change), NPI (new product introduction).

Required education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Languages skills - English and Hungarian at least intermediate level
  • Computer skills (Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint)
  • Good communication and problem-solving skills
  • Proactive attitude
  • Taking ownership
  • Strong interpersonal skills to work with suppliers, global and cross-functional teams
  • Good analytical skills
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Demonstrated experience in SAP (IP0)
  • Open to learn new skills (about AI and Automation

Preferred technical and professional experience

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Client-provided location(s): Budapest, Hungary
Job ID: IBM-53039
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-08-20T18:49:08

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