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Procurement Associate
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Role: Procurement Associate
Location: Abu Dhabi
Role Purpose:
- Handling procurement activities as instructed by Category Manager.
- To deliver an optimized service, quality and cost offering to internal clients of Centralized Procurement Department ensuring service excellence through demonstrable customer Satisfaction and significant cost saves.
- Support the Category Manager to deliver value to the Business Plan.
- Provide backend support to Business/requesting Dept, Sourcing and Cost Optimization
Key Accountabilities of the role:
- To understand the overall role of Procurement and its value proposition.
- To develop and then deepen business stakeholder relationships.
- To engage in task responsibilities on Procurement System, involving PRs approvals and releasing RFPs for sourcing better options, price negotiations.
- Handling Contracts’ track list, ensure to keep it updated, valid, and upload all the contracts on SAP ARIBA.
- Support Vendors to register in Procurement System and facilitate the process with the registration team.
- Understand ADIB Policies & Procedures and comply.
- Track prices for key inputs & assess business impact of the same
- Liaise with respective teams for the creation and publishing of contracts.
- Coordinate with VMCP team members for contract archiving process.
- Support BUs with system implementation, inputs for their purchases.
- Negotiating timescales or schedules as per job timelines and urgent deadlines.
- Support Procurement SLAs and reduce TAT where applicable.
- Daily intervention and follow up with suppliers to ensure timely deliveries and manage escalation by investigation the root cause of delay to avoid such repetition.
- Ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction, follow up with supplier on delivery, attend users calls and answer their queries.
Specialist skills / technical knowledge that will be important for this role:
- Analytical skills
- Excellent MS Excel & PowerPoint skills
- Problem solving
- Internal Customer Orientation
- Negotiation skills
- Conflict management
- Good communication Skills
- Change management and stakeholders’ management skills.
Experience & Qualification:
- Graduate with Business, Financial, Legal or Technology
- This position is for recent Graduates UAE Nationals only.
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