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

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Ensures prompt procurement of engineering spares, laboratory consumables, equipment, projects and services 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