Senior Procurement Expert

7 Dec 2023 Senior Procurement Expert at Kerchanshe Trading Company

• Conducts procurement planning sessions with user departments’ representatives to ensure understanding of the procurement process and associated timeframes and establish respective roles and responsibilities. • Provides necessary information required for preparation of periodic procurement plan. • Assists in the development of specification for services, equipment, products, or supplies. • Prepares technical specifications, in collaboration with user departments, request for proposal including terms, conditions, and evaluation criteria. • Researches and evaluates suppliers based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier’s reputation and history. • Analyses market and delivery systems to assess present and future material availability. • Identifies potential vendors, using various sources, to ensure adequate competition. • Maintains and updates database of existing and potential supplier pool. • Prepares tender documents, drafts contract clauses, prepares specifications, and references to technical performance requirements suitable for the contracts in question. • Determines the appropriate method of solicitation in accordance with applicable laws and Company policies. • Conducts public bid/proposal opening for projects over the formal bid threshold in accordance with established procedures. • Analyses price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to determine reasonable prices. • Participates in the review of bids and proposals for responsiveness to minimum procurement requirements, and notify affected bidders/proposers of non-responsiveness and non-responsibility findings. • Prepares award recommendations in compliance with Company policy. • Publishes contract award notices, inform unsuccessful bidders, explain the award process and if necessary provide details to unsuccessful bidders.