Sr Procurement Executive

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Responsibilities

• Keeping an eye on sourcing activities
• Easing the path for the country team s procurement activities will be your main concern. You ll assist in drafting requirements for bidding and conduct various sourcing references-including requests for information, proposals and quotations. You ll also draw up contracts and find opportunities to drive costs down. You ll also be expected to always be ready in the face of any pricing issues that may arise. On top of these, you ll lend support to our solutions department team, so part of your strategic plan should be to get the best pricing that s in line with their tenders.
• Are you adept in monitoring and generating reports In this role, you ll handle the development, implementation and maintenance of purchase orders (JDE preferred) and benchmark reports. You ll also carry out scheduled audits to ensure that both contract and insurance requirements are met. To excel in this role, you ll also take part in growing the business by actively participating in tender/pricing activities.
• Finding the right partners and keeping them
• You should have an eye for vendors who can deliver on time and live up to our quality standards-at the right price. A strong relationship based on trust pays off with great dividends, that s why building lasting relationships with the right vendors and suppliers should be second nature to you. You ll also spend a lot of time keeping track of their performance to make sure that we partner with only the best ones.
• Also part of your mandate is to support our supply chain management team by developing and looking after vendor management programmes, ensuring seamless negotiation processes and promoting effective project coordination. You ll also see to it that transition and information updates are well in place.

Requirements

• An experienced professional
• Are you a degree holder with two to three years experience in procurement processes Are you a stickler for key business goals and results Do you put customer satisfaction at the forefront If you said yes to all these, we re more than happy to work with you.
• An effective communicator
• You ll be teaming up with people across various departments, so a good command of spoken and written English and other non-English languages-coupled with superior people skills-will be indispensable in this role. You should also be proficient in all MS applications to land this job.

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