Procurement Officer - Jordan

Role overview: The role holder would be responsible for supporting the Procurement team in building a procurement centre of excellence across Careem, transforming a legacy adhoc strategy and delivering hard savings across multi-functional spend portfolio, while enabling the business to stay agile while we rapidly scale.

Reporting: Head of Finance EM/ Director Strategic Finance

Responsibilities

• Strategy, analysis and reporting: Support in executing the procurement strategy including spend analysis, industry benchmarks, and transformation objectives to deliver optimized purchasing and hard cost savings across functions and locations.
• Create clear, detailed reports against benchmark KPIs to articulate spend at granular levels.
• Sourcing and vendor management: Vendor sourcing, evaluation, competitive bidding and negotiation. Experience in vendor management system to drive continuous improvements.
• Extensive procurement experience in travel, office supplies, and other general working alongside outsourced people provider
• Transformation and systems: Integrate best-of-breed procurement system to automate procurement, bidding, and reducing operating costs in procurement
• Cost saving and controls: Support and Drive adoption of tools and processes to increase turnaround times, eliminate non-compliant purchasing and reduce costs significantly while managing rapid growth