Cecile Sami

Lead BuyerFull Time

• Job Details:• Develop a first-class service organization that responds effectively to inquiries and engenders trust from the University community • Responsible for the purchase and acquisition of University goods and services • Achieve cost savings and maintain quality performance • Participate in developing and implementing the University purchasing policies and procedures • Determine proper sources of supply for most economical purchases from most competitive locally or international markets and to develop and maintain high level contact with key suppliers and service personnel • Perform critical purchasing functions related to the implementation, development, management and administration of the automated SAP system related to the procurement process • Analyze market and delivery systems to assess present and future material availability and sources • Handle the vendors’ assessment, as needed • Effective proactive liaison with other departments as necessary to forecast, plan to meet, and to supply demand to relevant quality • Maintain and keep approved and qualified vendors lists, records and files; update them by contacting vendors to get the latest information; and circulate them periodically for interested persons and departments • Review, analyze and recommend solutions to purchasing problems and transactions • Participate in the preparation of specifications for equipment, products or substitute materials. Review and evaluate specifications for issuing and awarding bids • Develop effective relationship with suppliers and other internal departments, respond effectively to inquiries and engender trust from the University community • Coordinates with internal and external customers to identify needs and refine specifications • Plan, direct and coordinate the activities of other junior buyer(s), if requested

Procurement OfficerFull Time

• Job Details:Responsibilities include the following tasks:  Daily coordination of procurement activities.  Assists staff as needed on creating clear and understandable purchase requests.  Collects quotations and bids from the market for requisitions as assigned by manager.  Interacts with contractors in coordination with the program and operational staff.  Prepares the required documents of procurement transactions as per SCI rules.  Prepares the status reports.  Ensures that procurement procedures respect Save the Children's procurement manual.  Ensures that the procurement tracker is updated on a weekly basis.  Evaluating new projects/business offers.

Regional Procurement Partner, MENAFull Time

• Job Details:Responsibilities includes the following tasks: 1- Supplier contracts: * Review spent data analysis and prepare spent reports for countries managed through the MarketPlace * Perform market analysis to test the quality of the available suppliers * Support the administrative side of contract tendering process, e.g., advertise the ITT to the market in an appropriate manner, setting up meetings between the British Council and the vendor, ensuring proper documentation has been completed and is filed for future reference 2- Procurement administration: * Run all P2P reports and resolve issues relating to open PO report, GR/IR reports, Late Payments, Blocked Invoices * Report on compliance with the MarketPlace-country SLA * Run weekly late PO reports to determine whether sourcing was made prior to PO creation and Escalate all incidents of non-compliance to the MarketPlace Manager for discussion with CD 3- New vendors & master data: * Run the master data reports from SAP and follow up on all issues to ensure they are resolved * Maintain conflict of interest register * Review maintenance of the contracts database * Review country requests for newly Approved Supplier List (ie, not tendered contracts) and challenge countries where a suitable preferred supplier exists 4- Supplier management process: * Review and analyse supplier feedback reports prepared by the MarketPlace Advisors to support the quarterly contract relationship manager reviews with key vendors 5- MarketPlace compliance & performance measurement: * Evaluate the MarketPlace performance against agreed KPIs 6- Line management: * Day to day line management of the MarketPlace Advisors based in the relevant MarketPlace * Day to day resolution of issues from the MarketPlace Advisors, referring to the MarketPlace Manager where necessary