Senior Procurement Officer

Report to: Supply Chain Manager
I. Key responsibilities
- Be responsible for evaluating suppliers, products, and services, negotiating contracts, and ensuring that approved purchases are cost-efficient and of high quality.
- Receive requests for purchasing, and support with the issuing orders in accordance with specifications required.
- Record and file all details for all tenders, contracts, purchase requisitions and purchase orders in a purchasing database.
- Prepare the required procurement documents and review and process purchase requisitions in line with SBVN's policies, procedures, and processes.
- Support with the follow-up with suppliers on the receipt of required materials in a timely and accurate manner.
- Ensure the delivery of procured products/services to the relevant parties in SBVN.
- Support with the periodic market research and stay abreast on new products, equipment and services emerging in the market.
- Support with the updating of database on active contracts, reports on status and expenditure.
- Follow up with all Departments about supplier evaluation forms to verify that purchase requests/specifications are up to standard.
- Ensuring the strictest and highest confidentiality is adhered to at all times
- Ensuring all compliance and ethical practices are fully adhered to
- Each employee within the Department has the ability to highlight any issues or concerns related to suspected unethical behavior, such information will be treated in strictest confidence.