Sustainable Procurement Specialist

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Job Description

Job Title: Sustainable Procurement Specialist
Department & Team: Procurement
Reports to: Director Global Procurement Operations
Location: Virtual (Hungary)

Summary:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our team with a strong focus on sustainability and achieving long-term net-zero targets with our global suppliers. This position will be responsible for managing Supplier/Vendor Accountability.

This will be detailed work that will help us increase transparency, while avoiding or mitigating risks. These are very important topics in global businesses, which will continue to be elevated in social governance.

Responsibilities may include:

• Coordinating or managing portal registration/ maintenance projects (and using it to perform the following activities)
• Reviewing supplier’s/ vendor’s adherence to requirements for conducting business with Genesys
• Coordinating or managing non-compliance
  • Reviewing data for non-compliance and contacting those suppliers/ vendors who haven’t responded or to acquire for missing information.
  • Reporting suppliers/ vendors to the appropriate Genesys team/ member if requests are repeatedly ignored.
• Coordinating or managing corrective actions – Once established by the cross-functional internal team and communicated to suppliers/ vendors, the Genesys team member (in this new position) would ensure the corrective actions are communicated and tracked
• Reviewing resource requirements
• Tracking supplier performance and compliance metrics
• Analyzing ESG Supplier Survey responses
• Coordinating or managing Supplier Diversity updates, reporting and certification expiry date process
• You will generate transparency through the preparation and consolidation of the relevant data. Based on this, you will work with the various entities in the group to derive measures to reduce emissions
• You will develop and operate group-wide networks in close coordination with other processes in the context of sustainability
• You will run projects for data consolidation and emission reduction in procurement with the group and in collaboration with external partners
• You will support the local entities in achieving the sustainability goals
• You will make the CO2 Footprint within the Supply Chain and the comprehensive contribution towards Group sustainability targets visible
• Playing a consultative role in responsible and sustainable procurement: carrying out competitive, environmental, regulatory and normative monitoring (ISO 26000, ISO 24000...); conducting supplier surveys to develop the company's sourcing, quality and traceability approaches; supporting the operational divisions in decision-making, in accordance with pre-determined sustainability commitments
• Acting as an internal ambassador: raising the teams' awareness of the importance of the company's sustainability policies and its challenges, encouraging positive steps in-house and with suppliers, promoting socially and ecologically responsible public procurement
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Sustainability/Procurement/Business
• At least 5 years of related experience
• Committed to driving sustainability in the supply chain and procurement
• Creativity, analytical thinking, communication skills and intercultural competence
• Strong project and process management capabilities
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with large and complex data sets
• Knowledge of handling compliance and sustainability, consequences, impacts and considering them in the procurement process
• Hands on experience using systems such as Workday, Cvent, Concur, survey and analytics tools and dashboards, etc.
• Excellent PC skills (Microsoft Office) including ability to enhance existing processes to assist in reporting / data analysis and presentation
• Strong people skills to support remote users effectively
• Strong analytical skills geared towards troubleshooting, with the ability to solve complex problems using simple solutions
• Communication skills; ability to communicate effectively both verbally and with written communications
• Capable of managing multiple projects and competing requirements with good time management skills
• Good understanding of business processes in the Technology domain

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About Genesys:

Every year, Genesys orchestrates billions of remarkable customer experiences for organizations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organizations can realize Experience as a Service™ our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organizations have the power to deliver proactive, predictive, and hyper personalized experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales, and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology to a modern revenue velocity engine Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty. Visit www.genesys.com.

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