Strategic Buyer, Marketing & Corporate Services
Position Snapshot
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Company: Nestlé Indonesia
Employment Type: Full Time
Joining Nestlé means joining the largest food and beverage company in the world. At our core, we are a human environment, driven by passionate people and guided by the purpose of unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come.
As a Strategic Buyer – Marketing & Corporate Services, you are supporting Procurement S&IM in delivering sourcing, supplier management, contract support, procurement governance, spend visibility, and cost optimization across indirect categories such as Marketing, Corporate Services, Travel, Fleet, IT, Facilities, and other business services.
Procurement’s role includes identifying business needs, selecting suppliers, negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, monitoring performance, and supporting procurement policies and procedures..
A Day in the Life of a Strategic Buyer, Marketing & Corporate Services
• Lead sourcing activities, including supplier selection, quotation analysis, negotiations, and supplier recommendations.
• Identify and evaluate suppliers to ensure the best balance of quality, service, cost, and business requirements.
• Analyze spend data and identify opportunities for cost savings and procurement optimization.
• Manage supplier performance and support contract administration activities.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and develop effective sourcing strategies.
• Ensure procurement activities comply with company policies, sourcing standards, and governance requirements.
• Prepare procurement analyses, recommendations, and reports to support business decision-making.
What Will Make You Successful
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or any related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in Procurement, Sourcing, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Commercial, or related function.
• Good command of English, both written and spoken.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in supporting or leading tender process, supplier comparison, negotiation, and award recommendation.
• Experience handling supplier/spend data, commercial comparison, price analysis, and reporting.
• Familiar with SAP, Ariba, procurement platform, vendor database, Excel, and Power BI are preferred. Strategic Buyer references include SAP contract and vendor-related activities.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
As the world’s largest food and beverage company we are driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, we serve with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families. Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for the future.
We can trace our origin back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland.
Today, we employ around 273,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. With our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 84.3 billion in 2020.
Our portfolio covers almost every food and beverage category – offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.
House rules: https://nes.tl/HouseRules
