Reports To: Head, Planning and Procurement

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

To ensure strategic sourcing and procurement of engineering/technical items, consumables, equipment, machines, services, and projects in a timely and cost-efficient manner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensures prompt procurement of engineering spares, consumables, equipment, machines, services and projects in line with company’s procurement policy.

• Liaises with user departments and suppliers to ensure that items/services procured meet required specifications.

• Conducts regular market/price intelligence survey to ensure competitiveness on items and services procured.

• Ensures purchase orders are executed promptly as required to foster effective delivery of purchased materials/services for uninterrupted operations.

• Works with a cross-functional team to schedule and monitor assigned projects and ensure they are completed within the stipulated budget and time frame.

• Develop service level agreements with vendors and contractors.

• Conducts the annual vendors’/contractors’ performance evaluation process, prepares the performance evaluation report and gives recommendations to concerned stakeholders.

• Establishes mutually beneficial, ethical and healthy relationships with vendors/contractors to achieve quality standards and improvements on a continuous basis.

• Prepares monthly reports on procurement activities.

• Any other responsibility as assigned by the Head, Planning and Procurement