ASSISTANT MANAGER-PROCUREMENT

Company: Unifsafe

POSITION PURPOSE:
Responsible for ensuring timely procurement of the materials and formulations of long & short term strategic plans. Strong analytical thinking and should be able to decide negotiation strategy. Strong knowledge of commercial terms used. Involved in Department coordination & Inter Departmental relations. Identifying and developing alternate vendor source.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTION AND BASIC DUTIES:

1. Conduct market and supplier analysis to identify market trends for opportunities to reduce cost.
2. Alternate sourcing, pricing, and bidding of products with High negotiation skills.
3. Assign, co-ordinate and review projects and programs.
4. Supports Senior Manager in floating requests for quotations, evaluating the commercial bids, coordinating the technical evaluation, negotiating all purchase requisitions with vendors, ensuring the purchase orders are issued.
5. Oversee the evaluation of the cost and quality of goods or services.
6. Manage contracts, Review and process claims against supplier
7. The analysis of data and information
8. Oversee the preparation of reports
9. Process Improvements and Process expertise for Procurement & Stores
10. Commodity Management support (Assisting in Implementing process improvements and Supplier Integration, etc.)
11. Performs and manages day-to-day data collection, implementation, supplier improvement and process improvement in order to achieve effective competitive supply chains.
12. Promotes communication across the organization to identify and drive toward common policies and best practices to achieve cost reduction.
13. Other duties as assigned.

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Desired Candidate Profile:

Experience Required:

7 to 8 years.
Nationality: Indian Nationality.
Candidate must be experienced in procurement and negotiate with vendors to achieve optimum cost and quality within the budget.
Skills: Clear and precise communication skills (written and oral) required.
Ability to utilize available resources effectively.
Ability to interact with people and develop good working relationships.
Good skills in Microsoft Office Packages (Word, Excel & Outlook)
Ability to organize and maintain documents efficiently.
Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and deliver on time.
Competent negotiator and influencer.
Commercially focused with proven track record of delivering cost and process efficiencies.
Well-developed commercial understanding and numeracy.
Track record of delivering procurement savings.

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