Procurement Associate

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 

• 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.

• 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.

• Graduate with Business, Financial, Legal or Technology       
• This position is for recent Graduates UAE Nationals only.