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Job description / Role
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Providing purchasing and general support, while being proactive in the communication between suppliers and various divisions in Operations. Must have the ability to create and manage commercial relationships with suppliers, negotiating the best prices for components and lead times.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• To perform the re-order process on your group of suppliers, and then to interpret these reports and place purchase orders.
• To ensure that products are procured, at the required quantity and quality, and at the correct time, ensuring the optimum cost benefit to the company.
• To be familiar with the meaning of product types and classes on the inventory file, and how these settings effect reordering.
• To maintain backorders and to liaise with suppliers on the delivery times of purchase orders and to take alternative action where possible to avoid stock outs.
• To assess/investigate local and overseas alternative suppliers, where the potential supplier meets the companies check of quality, and to be able to compare costs and delivery to that offered by current suppliers.
• To take over the monitoring of stock levels and reordering for new items
• To undertake any other duties/tasks as requested by the Operations Manager, these duties/tasks either being simple items or items of ongoing responsibility.
• To enter expenditure on purchase orders into the order details spreadsheet for use by the Accounts Department.
• To reprice incoming stock lines if required.
• To be able to prepare the spreadsheet of new supplier price lists for uploading into the computer.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree or combination of education and related work experience
• At least 1 year work experience in a business environment, preferably in purchasing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Strong Excel skills
About the Company
Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.