Procurement Specialist

General Information

Qatar-Doha

About the role

Job Responsibilities

• Plan procurement activities in line with Category Plan, assisting with plan as required, meeting timeframes as agreed with user department. Forward planning for Procurement Activities to achieve all projects competitively and on time.
• Identifies and proposes cost savings opportunities for QR Group to reduce total spend.
• Responsible for development of savings solutions and benchmarking of industry standards.
• Recommend process improvements to reduce RFQ timelines. Assist in ensuring that organizational requirement of goods and services are met through an open and fair process of tender.
• Responsible for negotiations planning and execution with suppliers on costs, commercial and contractual terms. Track supplier performance to circumvent issues and achieve higher service levels for QR.
• Conducts a market search to identify a potential supplier as well as to maintain and promote sound relationships with suppliers and business community.
• Strive to assist the procurement department to achieve best value, quality and delivery terms, at all times for goods and services procured on behalf of the organization.
• Complete end to end Tenders including all documents required as per relevant Policies. Provide regular status updates to internal user departments and suppliers on procurement tenders, acting as primary point of contact.
• Act as a primary point of contact for internal user department procurement queries, projects and data requests.
• Proactively manage internal user expectations and use best endeavours to meet reasonable user delivery requirements for projects.
• Negotiation with suppliers on costs and commercial terms for medium to high value goods and services as required.
• Be part of an extraordinary story
• Your skills.
• Your imagination.
• Your ambition.
• Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make.
• You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience.
• You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.
• Our best is here and still to come.
• To us, impossible is only a challenge.
• Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.
• Together, everything is possible.

About You

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 4 years of job-related experience OR High School Qualification / Vocational Qualification /Diploma or Equivalent with Minimum 5 years of job-related experience
• Strong communications skills (including good written and spoken English)
• Strong analytical ability to present data clearly and accurately
• Negotiation skills
• Planning skills
• Numeracy and Analysis
• Decision Making
• Action orientation
• Problem Solving
• Business and Finance Acumen

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