Procurement Specialist

at  Carrier

REQUIREMENTS

We are looking for people who are experienced in purchasing and possesses excellent communication skills. If this is you, get in touch.

As a minimum you must have:

• Diploma or Degree in Business or Engineering with at least 5 years’ relevant purchasing experience
• Good understanding of purchasing processes and systems
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective cross-functional team member with good conflict resolution skills
• Good team player
• Strong negotiation skills
• Customer focused and results driven
• Proficiency in MS office

ABOUT THE ROLE

This position is for a Procurement Specialist who will be developing and implementing procurement strategies, managing suppliers and handling projects.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Procurement Specialist, you’ll be responsible for:

• Develop and implement business procurement strategies for assigned products, consistent with global or local procurement plans
• Negotiate agreements with suppliers for raw materials within the value of spend
• Establish project management discipline for identifying and tracking tasks, resources, milestones and measures for projects
• Communicate with key stakeholders on projects to ensure mutual understanding of objectives and priorities
• Manage supplier and their performance to ensure uninterrupted supply and quality
• Create local/regional/global savings opportunities
• Support the delivery of working capital targets and creditor targets for the site
• Ensure control and proper responsibility for expenditure of company funds