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About the role

Based in the Indirect Procurement department, the Buyer will ensure that OUP Pakistan receives best value for money by sourcing new suppliers, maintaining relationships with our existing suppliers, negotiating contracts, preparing reports, and identifying opportunities to continuously improve our processes.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Indirect Procurement, the Buyer’s key responsibilities will include maintaining relationships with suppliers and suggesting changes to the contracts, ensuring outsourcing framework is embedded across the Company, completing reviews and reporting on contracts performance, analysing costs and identifying cost saving opportunities.

The role will also involve interacting with cross functional stakeholders to manage spend and market analytics, generating insights from bid events, preparing supplier negotiation materials, supporting project execution, supplier relationship management, and driving controls and compliance.

About you

The ideal candidate should have:

• Master’s degree, preferably in Supply Chain or Procurement, or Finance.
• Minimum 5 years of procurement or inventory management experience.
• Technical experience (engineering, Project management, Financial Analysis, Consolidation and Reporting)
• Solid communication, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced level experience in SAP and MS Office 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc.).
• Knowledge and experience in the areas of contract management (legal and commercial).
• Experience with eSourcing and ERP systems
• Impeccable English language skills

How to apply

Applicants should apply by 2 March 2020 by completing the online recruitment form at www.oup.com.pk/careers. Please specify the position title and code in the subject line.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.