Supply Chain Specialist - Saudi National

• Job Title: Supply Chain Specialist – JAL Contractor
• NO. of vacancies: 1
• Location: Dhahran
• Nationality: Saudi Nationality
• Years of experience: 0-2 year
• Below is the JD:

Job Purpose:

The Supply Chain and Contract Specialist will be responsible for the execution of Procurement related activities in alignment with the company requirements, drafting and maintaining contracts and agreements as well as being the focal point for vendor registration and customer/suppliers’ interactions, in addition to risk‑management responsibilities. Executions of procurement includes working with multiple leaders/stakeholders and a variety of technical and non-technical suppliers to identify the most sufficient suppliers and most cost effective. Drafting and Maintaining contracts include negotiating agreements for the company’s best interest while ensuring all required documents such as NDA’s/ MoU’s/ Agreement are in place and ensuring obligations of both parties are met. Acting as the focal point of contact when it comes to vendor registration and customer/suppliers’ interactions may also include ensuring the complete registration and documents updates at customers portal, responding to customers RFP’s while coordinating with different stakeholders such as GRC,

Technical, Marketing, and legal teams.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve processes, policies, strategies and best practices of Supply Chain
• Optimize and implement a complete supply chain management cycle for both operation and project-specific items within the ERP system
• Perform a due diligence for suppliers and manage vendor and supplier selection process based on price, quality, support, capacity and reliability.
• Negotiate purchasing agreements and terms of payments to ensure compliance with legal requirements, organizational policies, and regulations of LCGPA.
• manage purchase order claims with keeping a log of time and the problems.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
• Ensuring all orders are expedited and checked to ensure they will be Arriving within the agreed time scale.
• Keep accurate records of quality, quantity, stock levels, delivery times, and efficiency
• Work across multiple programs with maintaining all commercial related issues including procurement, contracts administration, cost advice, reporting and mitigation of financial risk
• Ensure Company information is protected by having NDA’s on place.
• Assist on all contractual matters including the review, identification and resolution of Contract change events, notices and claims with presenting and defending recommendations and positions including coordination with Legal as may be required.
• Obtaining all contract deliverables for timely work handover and close-out of contracts to ensure that all terms and conditions of contracts have been complied with prior to final payment.
• The review of Contract general terms and conditions to identify and monitor areas of risk, ambiguities, conflicts or deviations from the scope of work.
• Handle tender process from beginning to end, forming and issuing tender packages, tracking and closing queries, receiving and evaluating proposals, and providing recommendations for award
• Prepares and organizes meetings and workshops for bid clarification and pre-award meetings, for the purpose of ensuring complete understanding and agreement between the client and supplier on all contractual matters.
• Ensure every contract undergoes the internal risk‑assessment process, and that the results are promptly recorded in an up‑to‑date, centralized risk database.
• Develop, review, and update of company policies and procedures, templates, and providing recommendations on best practices for operational excellence

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in legal, Procurement, Business, Supply Chain Management or related discipline
• Certification in Contract Management is preferred.
• Experienced in managing contracts and agreements including Terms and Conditions.
• Has experience in work related to Supply Chain and Procurement matters
• Substantial supply chain management experience in relevant environment