Procurement Officer – Urbacon Trading & Contracting Company
Job Description
Procurement officers are responsible for evaluating suppliers, products, and services, negotiating contracts, and ensuring that approved purchases are cost-efficient and of high quality.
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate the supply strategy and its implications, to inform and align the respective stakeholders.
- Make use of competitive insights to shape strategies that counter competitive threats.
- Remove organizational barriers to delivering exceptional internal and/or external customer service.
- Represent the organization in an honest, ethical and professional way and encourage others to do so aligned with the operating framework.
- Manage financial and budgetary based on the assigned area of responsibility.
- Identify metrics, tools and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies.
- Lead the delivery of the savings and operating cash flow programs within their scope of category (products/services).
- Continuously drive operational excellence in strategic sourcing.
- Develop/follow superior procurement management strategies and practices to effectively reap maximum value from Procurement.
- Formulate and manages a strategic plan that capture total procurement value to sustain a competitive edge.
- Adapt Company–wide use of best practices to support the organization in achieving strategic objectives and maximize business opportunities.
- Engage and collaborates with both key internal and external stakeholders to improve service while reducing supply cost.
- Lead in identifying and analyzing cost reduction opportunities to achieve and deliver the financial targets.
- Oversee and manage the rationalization of suppliers, materials and services that meet business requirements.