Contract Specialist Full-time Job

Responsibilities

Conduct Procurement Planning activities and liaise with End Users to create an efficient demand plan for their respective departments and business units.

Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies.

Negotiate contracts, improve prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practices.

Create partnership contracts with relevant suppliers and negotiate best prices in comparison to the market.

Implement methodologies and recommend ways to assess inventory management systems and rate agreements to achieve cost-efficient procurement processes for regular spent inventory.

Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers, ensuring that a professional and consistent approach with all supplier relationships.

Review, create and analyze Procurement Spent Analysis reports, Procurement Planned reports and related methodologies to enable efficient procurement.

Implement and initiate best practices to enable effective ERP and online procurement processes.

Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities.

Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.

Build, maintain and manage vendor management processes and engage with vendors based on supplier-classification.

Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes.

Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers.

Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.

Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques.

Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.

Assist in the design of the ERP system at the Procurement level.

Build and strengthen key relationships with internal and external customers.

Comply with the Group Procurement Policy and report to the Procurement Manager for all activities.

Skills And Attributes For Success

Savings optimization in procurement

Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills

In-depth knowledge of purchase, negotiation, commercials and cost breakdown

Project management skills

Expertise in Procurement Demand Planning

A foundation of fiscal responsibility and an eye for detail

Qualifications

Ability to build trust and foster long-term relationships.

In-depth knowledge of purchase, negotiation, commercials, and cost breakdown.

An understanding of distribution processes and components.

Experience in launching new procurement related initiatives.

Excellent communication and persuasion skills

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