Procurement Specialist

Customer Focused Leadership:

- Maintains close working relationships and provides professional advice and assistance to local customers.

Execution:

- Ensuring quality of purchasing process, pricing accuracy, purchase orders, payment terms and check requests.
- Verifying purchase requests accuracy, completion, and approvals.
- Ensuring products and services are obtained at a budgeted price.
- Develops, completes and as required, initiates and manages RFQ/ RFP/SOW process.
- Manages contract review process with LRM Team or others as required.
- Participate local and regional compliance audit activities as needed.
- Addressing inquiries and resolving transactional supplier issues.
- Assists with the set up, data input and maintenance of on-line catalogs and supplier database.
- Managing supplier qualification/RFx processes, assessing and validating the capabilities of potential vendors as appropriate.

Optimising Team Performance:

- Provides local and regional support when working with Procurement Associate, Senior Procurement Specialist or Category & Sourcing Manager.
- Assist, as required, in the development of contract strategy, sourcing strategy, quality management, supplier selection, resolving supplier performance related issues and improvement of procurement processes.

Stakeholder Management:

- Leverages procurement and other internal resources to meet customer requirements.

Delivering Process Efficiencies:

- Provide user support in relation to department responsibilities such as; Commodity research, supplier selection, supplier evaluation, contract administration, RFP, bid evaluation and internal resource coordination.

Supplier Management:

- Supplier management responsibilities regularly and proactively reviews terms to ensure optimum benefits are secured and monitors supplier performance and adherence to contract terms.

**Qualifications**:
**Skills**:

- Sound knowledge of procurement principles, theories, concepts and processes.
- Ability to develop solutions to procurement problems and provide quality and/or creative solutions.
- Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills.
- Oracle R12 PO/AP/iProcurement modules
- Microsoft office
- A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
- Good negotiation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional business teams.
- Able to meet goals and deadlines.

Knowledge and Experience:

- Experience working within a Procurement environment at a local/ regional or Global level
- Exposure to operations and/or life sciences is an advantage
- 1 - 3+ years of relevant business/management experience is desirable
- Oracle experience in a global environment is beneficial
- Prior project management experience is an advantage

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree, preferably business related or equivalent experience.