Summary
Durrah Advanced Development Company is recruiting a Procurement Officer in Yanbu. The role covers negotiating with suppliers, issuing and tracking purchase orders, qualifying suppliers, and maintaining supplier relationships and performance records. The officer also coordinates with internal requestors and vendors, checks order and customs-clearance documents, and supports procurement procedures and policies. A bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, engineering, or business administration is required.
The posting
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Job Summary
Purchasing officer main objective is to obtain items and services needed for operation assuring best price, best quality and on time delivery.
Candidate Profile
Responsibilities
• Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms
• Nurtures relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best prices for company
• Issue purchase order and follow up the status of orders and delivery schedule with vendors to ensure timely delivery.
• Look for new suppliers and work on qualifying them as approved suppliers.
• Establish and maintain long term business relationships with strategic suppliers.
• Make sure that Purchase Orders are sent to suppliers along with all necessary supporting documents such as drawings, specifications or terms and conditions to which some orders should comply to.
• Maintain good communication with internal requestors, to understand their requirements clearly and prioritize it according to their actual needs.
• Follow up with suppliers to assure timely deliveries as ordered, check all related documents for completeness and discrepancies in order to clear shipments and/or pay suppliers on time.
• Conduct routine supplier performance evaluations to update the approved suppliers list.
• Support the establishment and implementation of company’s procurement procedures and related policies.
• Liaise with foreign vendors and custom clearance coordinator to make sure that all documents needed for custom clearance are prepared and received properly and in time.
• Any other duties as assigned by the direct manager.
Qualification
Bachelor’s in supply chain management, logistics, engineering or business administration