Procurement Officer

Job Summary
1- Knowledge of purchasing transactions for equipment, materials, supplies, capital goods, and services
2- Knowledge of supply chain, production and processing, customer and personal service, relevant tools and technology, applicable regulations and standards, administration and management
3- Read and interpret dense and complex texts, and have ability to make high-level inferences using specialized knowledge for policies and procedures, trade terms and international standards.

Required Skills

• Process purchase requisitions / orders within purchasing authority.
• Invite, assess, and award/recommend supplier tenders, bids, quotations, and proposals.
• Establish and negotiate contract terms and conditions, and maintain supplier relationships.
• Prepare and maintain purchasing records, reports and price lists.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine procurement needs, quality, and delivery requirements.
• Assist in the development of specifications for equipment, materials, and services to be purchased.
• Administer contract performance, including delivery, receipt, warranty, damages and insurance.
• Reconcile or resolve value discrepancies
• Address staffing resource needs and supervise purchasing clerks

Additional Information
Should have the knowledge and can perform the following:
purchase requisitions/orders, tenders, quotations and bids, price lists, contracts, brochures, trade magazines, computer and technical manuals, procedures and organizational policies, applicable standards, legislation, and regulations, invoices, packing slips, bills of lading, computerized inventories, production reports, schedules, signs and labels, manager’s instructions

Education
Economics, Logistics, Supply Management, Operations Management, Finance or Engineering, Mathe.