About the role
This position is for a Buyer who is a established procurement professional. Carries out Procurement processes, standards, and operational plans, including RFPs, negotiation preparations, and cost analysis. Responds to client inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations to ensure customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Buyer, you’ll be responsible for:
- Carries out Procurement processes, standards, and operational plans in accordance with the company’s purchasing policies and procedure, including RFPs, negotiation preparations, PO issue, payment terms and cost analysis.
- Work closely with requestors and vendors on supply and demand materials planning and SIOP to optimize the utilization of business resources and meet customer expectations for delivery.
- Liaise with requestors and vendors to identify opportunities to optimize cost savings.
- Review vendors’ contract terms and prepares service agreements to ensure terms are in the best interest of the organization.
- Follow up with suppliers to expedite and ensure that the Supplier On time Delivery Performance are met. Escalate issues timely to address supply issues.
- Contacts suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries to ensure resolution of problems such as shortages and missed or late deliveries.
- Responds to inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Managing inventories and maintaining accurate purchase and pricing record.
- Support process improvement to enhance and standardize purchasing and inventory management processes.
- Monitors & evaluate suppliers’ performance and applies sustainable countermeasures and actions to facilitate improvement.
- Assists in generating reports for management.
- Resolve suppliers’ service, deliveries, or billing discrepancies.
Requirements
We are looking for people who has excellent communication skills and experienced in procurement. If this is you, get in touch.
As a minimum you must have:
- Minimum Diploma in supply chain, business or equivalent.
- Min. 3 to 5 years working experience in procurement role or in a similar position.
- Strong communication and negotiation skill
- Good analytical and organizations skill.
- Familiarity with SAP & Ariba platform is advantageous.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Self-motivated with ability to work independently and as a team.
