Category Officer

1. Job Summary:
Category officer is a critical position in Procurement Department responsible for ensuring timely and properly performing the end-to-end contracting activities in accordance with NSRP's Financial and Procurement Procedure.
2. Key Responsibility:
• Build the Contracting Strategy/Sourcing Strategy.
• Conduct spends and demand analysis with close coordination with key internal stakeholders.
• Conduct market survey to identify market dynamics, supplier pools and opportunity to develop contracting and sourcing strategy.
• Identify value opportunity in close collaboration with stakeholders and suppliers in terms demand, specification, scope of work/services, focus on cost instead of price, innovation etc.
• Work closely with the supplier management team to select the qualified suppliers.
• Support the Cost Estimation and Validation (where requires).
• Build cost models.
• Finalize the Bidding documents for review and sharing to the market.
• Jointly support the evaluation finalization.
• Prepare for and manage effective negotiations.
• Finalize the Awarding Proposal for approval.
• Prepare and finalize the contractual documents with finance and legal departments before signature.
• Document and information keeping.
• Handle Post-Award Issues with Contractors and Business Stakeholders includes but not limited to expediting activities to ensure the on-time deliverables.
• Be responsible for Cross-functional contract administration activities including but not limited to payment, Variation process and disputes.
• Manage supplier performance and service providers and drive overall performance in terms of quality, cost, and delivery across supply chain, optimizing costs whilst ensuring continuity of supply.