Job Description
- Supplier relationship management through phone/e-mail/face to face and supplier review meetings.
- Interacting with suppliers to obtain deal sheets/contracts and to ensure suppliers adherence to those deals.
- Price negotiations to get the right price and the right product with right packing
- Interact with other departments to make a better understanding on procedures and product related affairs
- Identify, negotiate and deliver cost saving opportunities.
- Suppliers evaluation & selection and following up the formalities with local authorities to import goods from the supplier.
- Developing reliable main suppliers & a contingency plan.
- Understanding supplier capacities and development plan to ensure consistent supplies.
- Contract preparation and taking it to the last stage including the approval process.
- Developing market knowledge and utilizing it in taking sourcing decisions.
- Improving payment terms / working capital and other buying terms.
- Collecting information to submit required reports.
- Handling order cycle from specs finalization, sample, placing order, arranging shipment, bank allocation, custom clearance, delivering the goods to WH, collecting documents and making the payments.
- Managing the procurement and inbound logistics team.