**JOB SUMMARY**
Responsible for the timely sourcing, proper negotiation, and purchase of the company's requirements.
Executes strategic procurement activities across multiple categories of requirements, secure for better deals, and maintain a professional relationship with suppliers.
**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**
**Supervises the Purchasing Team on its day-to-day and its deliverables.
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- Recognizing opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses in the Purchasing Process to improve not only day-to-day operations also inter-department relationships.
- Clearly communicates these opportunities and areas of improvement to process owners and pushes for change.
- Assures that department commitments such as the processing of Purchase Requisitions, allocation of requirements to preferred suppliers, dissemination of Purchase Orders, day-to-day monitoring of deliveries, results of various post delivery activities adhere to the established guidelines set by management.
- Acting as the mediator of the company to communicate its concerns and objectives to suppliers in a professional manner and ensuring that the company's interest is always held above the rest.
- Able to professionally discuss sensitive issues with suppliers and holding them accountable until a resolution is agreed upon in the interests of the company.
- Foster a healthy team environment that is results driven and accountable to one another.
- Able to hold himself/herself above departmental noise, provide unbiased feedback to the team, and ensures the timely delivery of the Purchasing Team's promise to the departments.
- Exercises leadership and initiative to trim down unnecessary distractions within the department to make sure that the team is disciplined and people resources are utilized.
- Provides weekly, monthly, and/or required reports to management in a concise and actionable manner.
**Partner with Departments to ensure clear communication of requirements and timelines.
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- Work closely with Managers on their specific requirements and understanding the objectives of the purchase.
- Being able to communicate to Requisitioners any fault and/or opportunities in the request.
- Ensuring that the Request is properly documented and communicated to the suppliers/contractors.
- Effectively keep stakeholders updated on the progress of the transaction.
- Monitors and instills a culture of timeliness in deliveries and/or fulfillment of the Purchasing Deparment's commitments to its partners.
- Being able to offer solutions and initiate strategies that will benefit (ie.
Shorten lead times, save on expenses, procure better quality goods) the company.
**Sourcing & Accreditation of new suppliers and contractors.
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- Recognizes the need for a new or better supplier based on the company's requirements and suppliers' current performance.
- Sourcing the appropriate supplier(s) in a timely manner and vets them based on the company's standards and expectations.
- Put the company's interest above all else when negotiating for terms and conditions.
- Maintains a professional and unbiased relationship between company and suppliers.
**Supplier Performance Management**
- Establishes measureable performance criteria's and executes existing ones in the constant evaluation of a supplier's commitment to the company.
- Properly documents supplier's performance and provides a quarterly assessment for major suppliers and categories.
- Gatekeeper of the master list of suppliers and being able to properly recognize/categorize partners as Preferred or otherwise.
- Provides/discloses results of our evaluation to suppliers in a professional manner to strengthen or terminate any existing relationships.
**Develop and execute the company's purchasing strategies.
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- Maintain an up-to-date directory of accredited suppliers for ease of negotiations and purchasing.
- Maintain an up-to-date tracking of product costs to ensure the company always received preferential rates.
- Actively forecasting and monitoring price fluctuations based on incoming trends or historical data.
- Disciplined in providing a balance between purchase requirements and cost investment to ensure the company does not miss out on an opportunity to save or receive purchases faster.
- Actively negotiates for better terms and timelines for regular products purchased.
- Vocally expresses concerns to management should conflicts in supplier's terms and company interests arise.
**Salary**: Php40,000.00 - Php50,000.00 per month
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Supplemental pay types:
- 13th month salary
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Ortigas Pasig: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)
**Education**:
- Bachelor's (required)