Procurement Lead

Procurement Lead

Job Purpose

Implement Procurement strategies in accordance with the automation approach led by the MRP usage and in close cooperation with Category Manager

Manage the operational and transactional procurement for both Sukhna plant and Geocycle platform to find and automate based on a cost-effective deals and suppliers and to discover the best ways to reduce the cost

Key Responsibilities

  1-Health & Safety:

Adhere to and enforce relevant legislation and policies and ensure that highest degree of safety and safe working practices are maintained

2-Functional:

• Manage Procurement activities of the category in accordance with the sourcing strategy, as well as applicable policies, procedures and specifications to deliver benefits to the company and reduce total cost.
• Creating and using fruitful procurement and sourcing strategies
• Lead selected sub-category spends elements with close collaboration with the category manager and the requesters cross-functionally.
• Manage the day to day P2P operation in a state of the art mode, to ensure compliance and the highest level of controls.
• Manage an average of 4000 transactions annually.
• Perform risk management for supply contracts and agreements.
• Control spends and builds a culture of long-term saving on stakeholder’s costs
• On time performance of the P2P tasks, in line with the internal control requirements.
• Manage to automate the PR-PO cycle in accordance with the MRP strategy in the selected sub-categories.
• Provide and Manage reports and analysis in a country level within the selected sub-categories,
• Identify the initiatives, projects and saving opportunities and that support the procurement decision making process, to ensure creation of stakeholder’s value.
• Act as the point of contact between country category management and stakeholders
• Challenge requesters to have optimum and consolidated scope of work.
• Introduce new potential suppliers/contractors in market with efficient alternatives
• Create and support the bidding process locally as defined by category strategy
• Align internal decision makers through focused communication
• Managing & developing the selected sub-category team members.

Education

Qualifications & Experience

Education: 

Engineering

Technical Skills: 

• ERP systems & Excel.
• Reporting tools developer.
• Advanced communication & negotiation skills.
• Very good management skills.

Experience: 

5 years in a technically related job preferably to be as procurement.