Buyer

Job description / Role

A multinational company is looking to a recruit a Buyer for its branch in KSA.

Duties and Responsibilities are:
- Verifies purchase requisitions, clarifying unclear items with requestor.
- Prepares purchase orders by verifying specifications and price of supplier quotations.
- Distributes and monitors purchase orders, obtains order confirmations and shipping documents from suppliers.
- Determines most economical and efficient shipping method.
- Coordinates with company appointed custom brokers for clearance of import shipments.
- Verifies receipt of items by comparing items received to items ordered; resolves shipments in error with suppliers/forwarders.
- Authorizes payment for purchases by forwarding receiving documentation.
- Filing of purchase orders and supporting documents.
- Prepare biweekly project wise report on ordering and delivery status and send it PM to plan/update their project schedule.
- Evaluate vendor performance.
- Solid knowledge of Saudi import procedures.
- Develop and foster business relationships with suppliers.

Requirements

- Minimum two years experience with purchasing or related field.
- Associate degree.
- Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills.
- Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities.
- Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment.
- Experience in Saudi market.
- Good negotiation skills

About the Company

SEL introduced the world’s first digital relay in 1984, revolutionizing the power protection industry by offering fault locating and other features for a fraction of the cost of earlier systems. In the years since, we have grown and developed a complete line of products and services for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of electric power systems.

Creativity, extensive research, attention to customer needs, and a wealth of power system, automation, communications, and cybersecurity expertise drive our research and development processes. Our multidisciplinary teams of power, communications, automation, software, mechanical, and electronic design engineers develop products that meet or exceed customer needs for features, functionality, and robustness.