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US Career Advice | Functions | Purchases

Are you interested in supply chain management? Do you want something broader than procurement?

Purchases at P&G is more than buying . . . it is the strategic link to our suppliers and vendors.

If you are interested in . .

  • Having immediate high-level visibility and responsibility for allocating millions of dollars
  • Working with new-to-the-world business models (e-commerce) and leading internal functions and suppliers to this technology
  • Owning relationships and agreements with global suppliers
  • Leading global, multi-functional teams from inception to success
  • Utilizing various business skills (finance, marketing, accounting, operations, statistics) to deliver significant returns from detail analysis, planning and execution against your strategy
  • Receiving comprehensive training to enhance technical and commercial skills
  • Being rewarded for creative thinking and leading others to successful implementation of your plan

. . . then Procter & Gamble Purchases may have a career opportunity for YOU!

We do all this and more since we strategically source at all ends of the consumer product supply chain. The demand for Purchases expertise has never been higher, and the excitement and opportunities at Procter & Gamble are boundless! We are looking for people with intellectual capacity, creative intelligence and strategic insight to join our team.

 
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Degrees: BA, BS, BBA, MBA – all majors considered
Starting locations at the Cincinnati General Offices and Technical Centers

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As a new part of the Purchases team, your early assignments may find you:

  • Participating as a critical member of a cross-functional team in one of our Global Business Units or Spend Pool Organizations to deliver a new product or technology to market, or creating sourcing strategies to improve the value, availability and technology of materials that support our existing product lines;
  • Evaluating our current approaches and proposing improvements to help our Global Business Services organizations deliver improved customer service and value to P&G employees around the world
  • Partnering with Marketing and Customer Business Development resources in our Market Development Organizations to improve our efficiency and effectiveness at reaching P&G customers and consumers with the products and messages that enable us to win on the store shelf again and again
  • Working with internal P&G customers and with the management of supplier companies to resolve economic and supply availability issues that affect our business plans, identify and interpret new and emerging customer requirements that will affect future sourcing strategies, drive cost savings projects to support our annual profit targets, and encourage supplier resourcing of P&G initiatives and projects
 
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Procter & Gamble Purchases has the unique responsibility for developing and executing the strategies for everything the Company buys. As a professional buyer, your everyday work will consist of using a vast array of technical, analytical, and commercial skills to:

  • Analyze markets
  • Spot and exploit emerging trends
  • Uncover business-building ideas and cost-saving opportunities
  • Commercialize emerging technologies
  • Build effective working relationships with suppliers
  • Create and capitalize on new methodologies such as e-marketplaces
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Your goal at the end of a transaction will be to link the most appropriate supplier capabilities with current business demands to deliver the best shareholder return.
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