Role Responsibilities:

Negotiate/manage existing terms and conditions, manage claims and vendor recovery
Order fulfilment tasks to ensure material on time delivery, PO placement and Invoice management. Expediting.
Co-ordinate supplier and product qualification together with Quality & Engineering teams.
Review supplier performance (schedule, CoQ, Manufacturing, Quality) to identify risks to the program and develop appropriate mitigation plans
Develop alternate sources and/or risk mitigation plans for single & sole source suppliers
Identify and deliver value-adding opportunities from the supply chain
Manage and improve supplier relationship and demonstrate the ability to communicate problems and present solutions with internal and external customers at senior levels

Qualifications/Requirements:

Demonstrable years of transactional sourcing and procurement experience with in-depth experience in high-value and complex projects.
Understanding of market trends and local supply chain.
Strong negotiation and contract management skills, with excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
Self-starter with drive, able to work under pressure and in a dynamic environment
Motivation, Teamwork is essential, trust, credibility and capability to communicate effectively at all levels internally and externally is essential

Background:

Pressure to deliver in many work streams - person needs to be resilient and professional under pressure.
The role is project/outage based, high volume, high value depending on commodity.
Managing suppliers that are proven in their commodity.

Desired Characteristics to be considered:

Experience within power industry related products.
Understanding and communication in English as well as local language.
Project Management Skills, Schedule Management a must.
Quality, Supplier Quality experience would be beneficial.
Interpersonal skills, managing people and situations including contract issues.
Proactive and pragmatic in their approach to managing the supplier
Able to adapt and work quickly to project situations.
Be able to manage various workstreams at the same time.
Management of change i.e. engineering, quality, escalations and reporting to senior management both at the supplier as well as Arabelle Solutions.
Experience on SAP, Microsoft packages including MS Project.