Procurement Officer at Afordonz Consulting

Job Summary

• The Procurement Officer will be responsible for developing, executing, and managing the sourcing strategy and tactical plans for indirect spend
• Category. Procurement managed by this position are those identified as strategic, business critical, and/or having significant leverage opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and track group strategy and policies for one or more merchandise category leveraging the identified value handle.
• Collaborate with the business to define category needs and specifications
• Manage and direct the strategic sourcing efforts (sourcing calendar)
• Complete the collection, analysis, and reporting of category spend and savings data monthly
• Conduct the development of sourcing strategies, industry and supplier research, bidding, supplier selection, and contract negotiations
• Perform value analysis and total cost of ownership analytical activities
• Coordinate strategic sourcing activities with stakeholders for sourced categories, including preparing category sourcing results and sourcing step details
• and summaries
• Provide Stakeholders’ department with spend savings analysis across categories for forecasting and budgeting purposes
• Prepare periodic stakeholder activities alignment and category planning materials
• Coordinate with Stakeholder and Legal department on contract negotiations
• Report on contracting activity
• Developed excellent customer database and maintain good customer relation
• Organize purchasing orders and requests for purchase orders of goods and materials
• Contact suppliers with a request for purchase
• Review the company inventory to see what needs to be purchased
• Order necessary company products and supplies
• Monitor income deliveries against purchased goods to make sure there is no discrepancy
• Track orders
• Manage orders that were never purchased, never delivered or damaged upon arrival
• Communicate with accounts receivable and accounts payable to make outstanding are settled promptly.
• Create and maintain any reports to document material traffic

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least four years of relevant strategic sourcing experience
• Prior management experience
• Project management experience
• Procurement and strategic sourcing knowledge, specifically with multiple retail, merchandise specific category sourcing expertise
• Understanding of cost savings approaches
• Established strategic sourcing skills, including documentation and communication of strategy
• Networking and team skills
• Strategically oriented
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical skills
• Ability to successfully address large supplier relationships