Procurement Executive

Job Description

Join a import-export company with strong market standing

Work with a dedicated and highly-trained team

Strong learning and development opportunities

Our client is an import/export merchant that is catering to the needs of customers globally, with expertise in garments & textile. Providing the highest standards of customer service at reasonable prices, they have expanded to other industries and earned a strong position in this market.

The Job

You will be responsible for :

Leading and executing sourcing strategies to attain targets.

Negotiating large purchase contracts and ensuring the best terms and conditions.

Developing policies related to the procurement of goods and services.

Reducing the number of suppliers and ensuring the cross-functional total cost of ownership supplier offer selection.

Analysing categories of spend to determine potential opportunities regarding cost optimisation.

Ensuring compliance with commercial/technical requirements.

Acting as the focal point amongst customers, sales and manufacturing for orders received.

Providing strong levels of customer service and after-sales support.

Conducting order reviews, processing orders and verifying data, obtaining customer confirmations and following up on deliveries.

Handling customer order related queries & support, liaising with key internal stakeholders for quality/warehouse issues, processing return shipment as well as repair and replacement administration.

Ensuring regular review and prompt action on backlogs and devising plans to minimise these in coordination with other teams.

The Profile

You have at least 1 year experience in Buying/ Procurement, Customer Service/ Order Fulfilment or similar role, within the Agricultural industry.

You possess excellent communication and influencing skills, are organised and able to multi-task effectively.

You have solid experience in a regional role ideally including experience covering India.

You possess excellent negotiating skills with a strong ability to influence people of all levels.

You are a strong networker & relationship builder.

You are adaptable and thrive in changing environments.

You possess strong analytical skills and are comfortable dealing with numerical data.