Overall Purpose: The Senior Procurement Specialist / Engineer should effectively manage end to end procurement process, negotiate with suppliers, maintain quality, and meet the company’s operational and financial goals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Identify and evaluate suppliers and goods according to the business requirements and criteria, requesting RFQ, RFI, RFP, negotiating prices, negotiating purchase terms & conditions, pricing agreements, reviewing contracts, creating POs in ERP systems.
• Analyze market trends, vendor performance, cost structures, short, medium and long term requirements and lead times.
• Negotiate favorable terms and prices with suppliers while maintaining strong relationships.
• Manage budgets, cut and control costs, and understand procurement financials.
• Make quick decisions to solve supply chain disruptions and delays, solve complex procurement challenges, mitigate risks, and make data-driven decisions to optimize the procurement process.
• Manage multiple projects and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Maintain an excellent relationship with all vendors, suppliers and stakeholders as well as conduct a continues market research to support future procurement needs and monitoring market trends and industry developments.
• Negotiate and follow up with suppliers to fulfill the business requirements at best outcome, optimizing time, cost, quantity, quality ...etc.
• Collaborate closely with all stakeholders and departments to ensure the procurement accuracy and fulfillment on-time while optimizing inventory levels, managing changes in requirements, highlight risks and opportunities and proactively address any issues.