NPR Buyer Thailand

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Date: Mar 2, 2026

Location: Bangkok, TH

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

Job Purpose

The Buyer executes the sourcing strategy at local level and is the interface with local suppliers and sites.
 Key procurement interface with local stakeholders and act as first escalation interface to handle local issue.
 Key participant in the IBP Process of the region
 Drives local change management and continuous improvements projects to improve suppliers’ QDCIS performances.
 Manages local, plant specific suppliers.
 Strategies, Negotiation for the respective region.

Key Accountabilities

• Be able to do spend analysis and suggest projects to consolidate suppliers
• Execute medium-value (€15-€50k) sourcing projects
• Execute some high value and high complexity (>€50k) sourcing projects with Category Manager stewardship e.g. Capex requests
• Prepare business cases supporting sourcing recommendations including competitive bidding, negotiating, analyzing data and market trends
• Provide contract management and interface with Legal department
• Able to interact with multiple stakeholders in local country or cluster of countries on development of procurement business cases as well as policy development and conformance
• Acting as the sourcing interface between P2I and NPR Procurement organization for escalation issues

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Experience

• BSc or equivalent work experience
• Procurement accreditation will be an asset
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a national purchasing role with an international understanding
• Fluent in English and local country language is mandatory, both written and spoken

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: 52353

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