Procurement / Buyer Officer with Facility Management Experience

You will be responsible for building and maintaining strategic supplier relationships for the Facilities Management company. Your key duties will include sourcing materials, equipment, and services in a cost-effective manner, analyzing business spend across multiple categories, and strategically sourcing products and services to achieve savings targets. Negotiating with suppliers on quality, delivery, and cost will be a crucial part of your role. You will manage the tender process from start to finish, including writing tenders, managing relationships, analyzing responses, and conducting commercial negotiations. Supporting the Assistant Procurement Manager in creating a long-term plan and strategy for key categories and managing rebates from suppliers will also be part of your responsibilities. In addition, you will be involved in pre-qualifying suppliers, maintaining an approved supplier list, ensuring supplier compliance with specifications and contract terms, identifying sourcing requirements, and managing purchase orders. Collaborating with the Stores officer to maintain inventory levels, validating purchase requests, and overseeing post-contract management with operations will also fall under your purview. Your role will require you to maintain market knowledge, enforce internal governance processes, and conduct procurement activities in accordance with ethical and legal policies. You will act as a role model of professional procurement practice, develop suppliers to achieve world-class results, and continuously improve supplier performance. To qualify for this position, 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, and experience in negotiation, tendering, and strategic sourcing are necessary. Experience in the FM market, an engineering background, and proficiency in using ERP software will be advantageous. You must possess good computer skills, proficiency in strategic sourcing, experience in writing tender documents, and managing SLAs and KPI mechanisms. Strong interpersonal, communication, negotiation, data analysis, and supplier relationship management skills are essential. Additionally, you should have a clear understanding of framework agreements and the ability to drive value from them. Candidates for this role should demonstrate clear and effective communication in English, computer literacy, strong numeracy and data analysis skills, problem-solving abilities, effective report writing skills, and strong relationship building skills. Knowledge of Arabic, Hindi, or Urdu languages will be an added advantage. This is a full-time position with a yearly bonus. Candidates must have exceptional Excel skills and a proactive approach to achieving sustainable results in procurement practices.,