Procurement Associate

Job description / Role

Role purpose

Handling procurement activities as instructed by category manager. To deliver an optimized service, quality and cost offering to internal clients of centralized procurement department ensuring service excellence through demonstrable customer satisfaction and significant cost savings. Support the category manager to deliver value to the business plan. Provide backend support to business/requesting department, sourcing and cost optimization.

Key accountabilities of the role

To understand the overall role of procurement and its value proposition. To develop and then deepen business stakeholder relationships. To engage in task responsibilities on procurement system, involving PRs approvals and releasing RFPs for sourcing better options, price negotiations. Handling contracts' track list, ensure to keep it updated, valid, and upload all the contracts on SAP ARIBA. Support vendors to register in procurement system and facilitate the process with the registration team. Understand ADIB policies and procedures and comply. Track prices for key inputs and assess business impact of the same. Liaise with respective teams for the creation and publishing of contracts.

Coordinate with VMCP team members for contract archiving process. Support business units with system implementation, inputs for their purchases. Negotiating timescales or schedules as per job timelines and urgent deadlines. Support procurement SLAs and reduce TAT where applicable. Daily intervention and follow up with suppliers to ensure timely deliveries and manage escalation by investigating the root cause of delay to avoid such repetition. Ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction, follow up with supplier on delivery, attend users calls and answer their queries.

Specialist skills / technical knowledge that will be important for this role

Experience & qualification

Graduate with business, financial, legal or technology background. This position is for recent graduates UAE nationals only.