Procurement / Buyer Officer

As a Procurement Specialist at our Facilities Management company, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining strategic supplier relationships. Your responsibilities will include sourcing materials, equipment, and services in an efficient and cost-effective manner. You will be tasked with analyzing business spend across multiple categories and strategically sourcing products and services to achieve savings targets. Negotiating with suppliers will be a key aspect of your role, with a focus on quality, delivery, and cost. Managing the tender process from start to finish will be part of your daily activities, including writing tenders, managing relationships, consolidating responses, and undertaking commercial negotiations. You will also support the Assistant Procurement Manager in developing a long-term plan and strategy for key categories, as well as managing rebates from suppliers. Your role will involve proactive and strategic supplier relationship and performance management, along with proficiency in procurement analysis and comparison techniques. Pre-qualification of suppliers, maintaining an approved supplier list, ensuring supplier compliance, and identifying sourcing requirements will also be part of your responsibilities. Collaborating closely with the Stores officer, you will oversee maintaining inventory levels, validate and convert purchase requests, manage purchase orders, and engage in post-contract management with operations. Internal stakeholder management, market knowledge maintenance, and enforcing internal governance related to procurement activities will also be essential aspects of your role. You will be expected to conduct procurement activities in accordance with ethics, CSR policies, and legal guidelines, while acting as a role model of professional procurement practice. Developing and implementing action plans to improve suppliers, leading risk and opportunity identification, and achieving world-class results on quality, delivery, and cost will be key objectives. Continuous improvement, sustainable business mindset, and professional procurement practices will be expected from you. To excel in this role, you should have at least 5+ years of experience in inventory management, preferably with 1-2 years of UAE working experience. A Bachelor's degree with English as the medium of graduation, relevant professional qualifications, negotiation skills, tender experience, and strategic sourcing expertise are required. Additionally, a background or degree in engineering will be advantageous. Candidates should possess good computer skills, proficiency in strategic sourcing, tender document writing, SLA and KPI management, ERP software usage, and strong interpersonal and communication skills. Data analysis, contract negotiation, logical recommendation writing, supplier relationship management, and understanding framework agreements are essential competencies. Fluency in Arabic, Hindi, or Urdu is an added advantage for this role. If you meet the requirements and are eager to contribute to our team on a full-time basis, with the potential for a yearly bonus, we encourage you to apply and showcase your exceptional Excel skills.,