Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Strategic Sourcing & Market Intelligence: Identify and develop a resilient supply base.
Monitor market trends and global economic shifts to provide insights that influence project forecasting and budgeting. - Tender Leadership: Lead complex RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes.
Ensure all sourcing activities align with corporate Procurement Governance while maintaining speed and agility. - Commercial Negotiation: Execute negotiation strategies that optimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Focus on securing competitive pricing alongside favorable payment terms, risk-sharing frameworks, and service level agreements (SLAs). - Financial & Data Analysis: Conduct rigorous price and cost-structure analysis. Adjudicate awards by building data-driven business cases for management approval.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal departments to align procurement strategies with operational needs.
- Contract & Risk Management: Proactively identify vulnerabilities in the supply chain. Manage vendor performance and lead dispute resolutions to ensure continuity of supply and quality excellence.
- Operational Oversight: Supervise the full PO lifecycle, including change orders and delivery tracking, ensuring seamless closing and financial reconciliation.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Experience: Experience in procurement or supply chain, ideally within an engineering environment.
- Education: Degree or Diploma, preferably in Engineering, Business, or Supply Chain Management.
- Business Acumen: Strong commercial mindset with the ability to understand P&L impact and identify value-creation opportunities beyond simple cost-cutting.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in SAP (preferred) or similar ERP systems.
- MS Office skills
- Soft Skills:
-Strategic Thinker: Ability to multitask and prioritize based on business urgency
and impact.
-Communication: Confident communicator capable of influencing stakeholders across different levels and cultural backgrounds.
-Integrity: High ethical standards with a meticulous eye for detail and a self-motivated drive for excellence.
