The Procurement department ensures efficient outsourcing and contracting of all aircraft-related commodities, including fleet, power plants, and equipment. Organized by commodity lines such as avionics, power plants, and airframe systems, we collaborate with engineering, finance, legal, and insurance teams to meet business needs with optimal terms. We manage supplier relationships and oversee warranty and product support, including contract administration and digital archiving. Our team negotiates extensively to secure and administer top product support, ensuring the highest standards of performance and integrity for our aircraft.

As a Procurement Officer in Engineering department, you will contribute to the management of the commodity contracting processes, including sourcing, negotiating, and overseeing commercial agreements and conclude and manage smaller value contracts. Ensure stakeholder engagement for effective supplier selection and management for assigned commodities and services.

In this role, you will:

• Support the commodity management by issuing and processing Purchasing Orders (PO) and coordinate activities with relevant stakeholders. Ensure for PO values above assigned financial limit that financial approval from the required authority is obtained.
• Manage the Enterprise Procurement Model (EPM) administration and provide EPM team training for existing staff and new joiners. Monitor team relevant EPM tracking and filing, both soft and hardcopies.
• Manage the Request For Proposal (RFP) process and administration by preparing, issuing and following-up of the tender documents, administration of the tender process within the time scales agreed with user department. Coordinate and support tender activities with relevant stakeholders, e.g. supplier queries, file sharing, action reminders, supplier registration, contract proofing etc.
• Support supplier selections as required by a given commodity leader and contribute to tender analysis and supplier selection reporting.
• Contribute to the preparation and drafting and revising of contracts, contract amendments and management reports. Negotiate, conclude and manage smaller value contracts and low to medium complexity contract amendments.
• Manage the vendor administration, ensuring supplier activation in EK systems. Coordinate and support related activities with stakeholders and potential suppliers.
• Support with the evaluation of commercial supplier performance, benchmark the commercial and contractual performance of assigned suppliers under contract against available indicators and competitors and identify areas of improvement.
• Manage back-office administrative duties for instance office supplies ordering, filing requirements, internal and external mail and signature loop management as well as document typing/scanning/printing/distributing as required by department.

To be considered in this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• 12 Years schooling or equivalent
• 2 years work experience with preferred experience in a contracts, sales, marketing, or procurement environment.

• Proven analytical and financial analysis problem solving skills.
• Strong aptitude for negotiating financially and legally complex agreements with mid- to top-level supplier representatives.
• Strong aptitude for concisely and correctly expressing complex matters in writing.
• Strong attention to detail, high customer orientation, decision making skills.
• Strong MS Office expertise (Word, Excel).
• Basic knowledge of engineering equipment and aircraft systems would be a plus.
• Work experience with an airline or an aircraft Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) would be a plus.

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