Procurement specialist

Job Purpose:

Provide procurement service, contacts and collaborate with suppliers of goods and services, manage to purchase docflow, work to support, interact and contribute to the success of the ITAM program.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise the implementation of procurement from initiation to completion of the request. Provide correct acquisition documents
• Fulfill IT Hardware and services procurement. Responsible for obtaining proper justification for products prior to purchase
• Determine the sourcing available for the requested HW asset ensuring that before purchase the asset is not currently available in inventory
• Minimize organizational cost through equipment standardization and tracking quality throughout the equipment lifetime
• Detect potential problems based on incidents, discover roots of problems and resolve them, cooperating with other IT directions if it is required
• Assist in planning reserve pool of standard hardware devices foreseeing user's needs
• Assist in monitoring and managing contractual agreements. Evaluate and monitor contracts to ensure vendors comply with contractual terms and conditions
• Assist in conducting E-tender procedures: requirements gathering, writing tech specification, tender administrating, and results from the analysis

Qualifications:

Education

• Master degree in Computer Science or similar

Specialized knowledge:

• Familiar with a variety of the ITAM practices, and procedures
• Proficient in the use of computer systems, personal computers, and software such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project and business process modeling
• Normalize Data for Excel Pivot Table
• Help Desk systems (desirable)

Skills & Abilities:

• Highly developed negotiation, problem-solving, decision-making and consensus building skills
• Experience with accounting documents
• Understands business trends in the IT industry
• Highly developed oral and written communication skills
• English intermediate level or higher
• Presentation skills
• Self-education and fast-education ability

Personal Qualities:

• Diligence
• Methodical approach
• Responsibility
• Accuracy
• Detail orientation
• Result orientation
• Client orientation
• A wide degree of creativity
• Team-player
• Ability to work under pressure

Professional Certification:

• ITIL Foundation (Desirable)
• Mastering Purchasing Fundamentals (Desirable)
• Basics of Smart International Procurement (Desirable)

Experience:

• 1/2 (half a year) year experience of complex product or service acquisition/sales and contract negotiation experience