Procurement Assistant

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Job Summary: Procurement Assistant to manage purchase orders and supplier relationships, ensuring policy compliance and delivery satisfaction. Key Highlights: 1. Efficiently manage domestic purchase orders for Resins Colombia 2. Establish strong operational-level relationships with suppliers 3. Ensure compliance with procurement policies and negotiation terms **Date:** May 22, 2026 **Location:** Medellín, CO **Company:** AkzoNobel **We are AkzoNobel.** You may already know us. We operate in homes, buildings, ships, cars — in short, on every surface where there’s an opportunity to add more color, life, and protection — in over 150 countries using our paints and coatings. To keep painting a better future, we need you! We are seeking a **Procurement Assistant** to work with our **Andercol** brand in **Medellín**. **Andercol** is a company with over 55 years of market experience, a leader in the chemical and industrial sector. We specialize in developing sustainable resins and chemical solutions that transform industries such as construction, infrastructure, and packaging, with a strong commercial presence and footprint across the Andean region and Latin America. **Job Mission:** To establish solid operational-level relationships with suppliers and efficiently manage national purchase orders for Resins Colombia for direct materials, goods, and services — from purchase order generation through to satisfactory delivery (quality, quantity, price, and documentation) at the plant and/or designated location. **Responsibilities:** * Timely generate purchase orders within previously agreed negotiations; monitor these orders to ensure timely and quality dispatch (specifications, quantity, documentation, dates, etc.); and report any issues identified during purchase order monitoring. * Resolve dispatch, quality, or price discrepancy issues with suppliers at the first level; escalate to Planning, Procurement, Sourcing, or Quality departments if unresolved. * Maintain continuous communication with Sourcing, Transportation, and Logistics to ensure effective delivery and receipt of materials at the plant. * Guarantee compliance with the company’s procurement policies and negotiated terms with suppliers. * Timely close fulfilled and completed open purchase orders. * Monitor and manage assigned KPIs. * Conduct quarterly supplier performance reviews using the OTIF (On-Time In-Full) vendor scorecard. * Verify that every purchase has its corresponding invoice, is properly accounted for, and request aging reports from suppliers to ensure timely payments. * Submit Internal Requests (IRs) when services are not charged to a purchase order. * Revalidate invoices in case of price or quantity discrepancies (Workflow) and release purchase orders for quality approval (AP). * Update SAP delivery dates for purchase orders as instructed by Planning — whether accelerated or delayed. * Validate freight charges with the Logistics team and associate them with purchase orders where applicable, when collection is handled by ADC **Academic Qualification:** Technical or technological degree in Administration, International Trade, or fields related to procurement. **Experience:** 1 year of procurement experience, preferably in raw materials. **Knowledge:** Intermediate Excel **Location:** Medellín, Colombia We’d love to meet you — apply now! AkzoNobel — Together, we paint a better future All qualified candidates will be considered for selection processes regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, age, or disability. \#LI\-MM1 At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability. Requisition ID: 53914