North America Production Purchasing Manager

Company: HireTalent
Location: Beaverton
Posted on: January 20, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description

Job Title: North America Production Purchasing Manager
Job Location: Beaverton, OR
Job Duration: 6 Months on W2

Who are we looking for?
s a Purchasing Operations Manager, you will work with the NA Production, Studio Management and Brand Creative teams, as well as both internal and external business partners throughout our client, Inc. to successfully support, streamline, and deploy strategic insights around vendor payments and financial connections within the organization.

You will drive the operationalization of the vendor contract and payment process across North America Brand Creative. This involves the workflow around SOW, Work Order, and Purchase Order process as well as Payment Term Exceptions, engagement with your production & studio management teams around this process, and monthly check-ins with Finance for fiscal updates and burn report calculations.

What will you work on?
You will manage the timely creation of legal contracts, purchase orders, work orders, SOW's and burn reports.

You will identify and provide immediate resolution on internal customer issues and triage more complex issues to appropriate our client Production, Procurement, Accounting, Legal and/or Finance team representatives, expediting and escalating as appropriate.

You will meet monthly with finance and regularly with hiring managers and producers, employing Airtable as your go-to tool for tracking finances and updating information from our client internal payment systems such as Coupa.

You will also be responsible for:
--- Liaising with internal and external vendors to resolve procurement, billing and payment discrepancies, maintaining and providing high quality customer service. Identify and recommend process changes or solutions to prevent recurrence.
dvisement for internal/external partners on policies and procedures related to the procurement of goods and services, and the requirements for hiring service providers/consultants, including the review and approval requirements, and invoice processing.
Utilize our client procurement, financial, and accounting software systems such as Contract Central, Cranium, Coupa, Aravo and Airtable
ssist with special projects and reports as needed.

Who will you work with?
Your key partners will be North America Studio Management, Production, Finance, and Brand Marketing Operations.

This role will report directly to the NA Creative Content Production Director.

What you bring:
Bachelor's Degree in Finance or
--- At least 3 years' experience in similar role
--- At least 2 years of experience with our client specific procurement processes, administration, terminology, features of the software systems and error resolution methods is highly desired.

Duties:
Lead a team in one or more areas of marketing operations, including analysis (metrics, dashboard), process, systems or tools Lead team to execute marketing operations plan and roll out improvements in area of focus Communicate focus areas and plans for area of responsibility, based upon team feedback and marketing function requests Develop strategies within Content and Creative Management to influence and execute category programs across the our client matrix to ensure excellence in brand management, asset management, and consumer presentation. Develop plans and work assignments against the forecasted project load Lead Marketing Ops category projects; Lead and communicate all the details, decision-making, and progress on key assigned high level programs. Accountable for Category asset management Works closely with external agencies and vendors, manage relationships and accountabilities

Skills:
Typical Office: This is a typical office job, with no special physical requirements or unusual work environment.

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