Duties: 

Responsible for planning, leading, organizing and controlling the operations of the Purchasing Department to ensure that procurement objectives are met by:

• Ensuring that purchasing policies, systems and procedures are properly implemented.
• Maintaining and improving supplier base in order to meet current and future commodity needs.
• Implementing sourcing and procurement strategies in order to improve company’s cost competitiveness, quality and delivery services.
• Negotiating contracts with accredited suppliers to achieve the most favorable terms of business for the Company.
• Reviewing contracts for the supply of goods and services on a periodic basis to ensure that terms and conditions are being carried out effectively. Renegotiate terms when necessary.

Skills needed: 

• excellent communication skills
• craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms
• familiarity with sourcing and vendor management
• can forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power
• networking skills
• planning and organizational skills
• attention to detail

Duties:

• Interfaces with immediate superior and department heads to plan and prioritize purchasing activities.
• Reviews planned orders, create requisitions for purchased items, and manage approval process.
• Transmits and prioritizes approved purchase orders and supporting documents to suppliers.
• Tracks order acknowledgement, prepares and communicates shortage and backlog reports, and provides visibility of potential interruptions to internal customers.
• Tracks orders and confirms system lead times, delivery dates, and costs.
• Reviews, updates, and maintains purchase orders until they are closed.
• Interact with suppliers on a regular basis to resolve transactional issues and gather critical information invoices, tracking info, tax docs. Etc.
• Responsible for appropriate supplier selection/bidding processes for selected purchase requests, and supplier and contract pricing validation for all purchase requests.