JOB PURPOSE:
• Execute Procurement activities as defined in the procurement and purchasing policies and procedures.

KEY DUTIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Identify and suggest opportunities for improving the operations of the department to ensure continued delivery of the best services in the most cost-effective manner.
• Maintain preferred vendors’ list to ensure that goods and services are acquired from the best offer providers and within optimal time frame.
• Research market on prevailing prices, practices and vendors the goods and services to be acquired as well as utilized to information gathered to lead and facilitate evaluations of proposals.
• Compile prices and terms of the goods/services to be acquired to ensure that organization’s interests are best represented, and best offers are received.
• Coordinate delivery of goods purchased as well as liaise with vendors to resolve any logistics issues, conduct sit visits to suppliers whenever it’s required and facilitate vendors' site visits.
• Provide support to the organization in the purchasing of regular office supplies and administrative requirements.
• Create item specific forecasts over a rolling time horizon to be used for ordering and inventory management purpose.
• Maintain procurement’s records and files for the purpose of providing up-to-date reference and audit trail for compliance.
• Conduct bi yearly local benchmarking on goods and services to ensure the best prices versus quality.
• Perform any other work-related duties assigned by the Procurement & Contracts Manager.