Sourcing Specialist (6-months Contract)
Your tasks
PRIMARY FUNCTION
- Manage supplier and their performance to ensure uninterrupted supply and quality
- Create local/regional/global savings opportunities
- Support the delivery of working capital targets and creditor targets for the site
- Ensure control and proper responsibility for expenditure of company funds
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and implement business procurement strategies for assigned products, consistent with global or local procurement plans
- Negotiate agreements with suppliers for raw materials within the value of spend
- Establish project management discipline for identifying and tracking tasks, resources, milestones and measures for projects
- Communicate with key stakeholders on projects to ensure mutual understanding of objectives and priorities
- Experience in managing direct and indirect category;
- Spend and Costing analysis knowledge
- Stakeholder management (Internal & External)
- Negotiate vendor contracts, reduce material costs, ensure compliance with safety and environmental standards, and optimize the supply chain for manufacturing or commercial cooling projects
- Manage quality control issues, non-conforming parts, and vendor returns
- Buy eco-friendly or compliant components, equipment etc under local regulations.
- Negotiate volume pricing and payment terms with vendors.
- Perform Audit and Supplier performance review
- Build backup supplier lists (Alternative source) for high-risk raw materials.
- Resolve invoice disputes and shipment discrepancies (if support from procurement side is required)
- Support and update on the cost rolling
- Work with engineering to approve alternative component brands.
- Set yearly cost reduction targets for the procurement team.
- Update and manage enterprise resource planning (ERP) and project records or RCR
Requirements
- Diploma or Degree in Business or Engineering with at least 5 years’ relevant sourcing / procurement experience
- Good understanding of procurement processes, procedures, policy and systems
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Effective cross-functional team member with good conflict resolution skills
- Good team player
- Strong negotiation skills
- Customer focused and results driven
- Proficiency in MS office