• Managerial Role:
Plans, leads, manages, and participates in operational activities to provide Co X with professional purchasing service, ensuring quality, price, and time standards.
• Plans & Budgets:
Develops, gains approval for, and implements medium terms and budgets in order to achieve effective cost control and optimum deployment of resources.
• Policies & Procedures:
Implements, maintains and recommends improvement to purchasing policies and procedures that all staff complies with these requirements in their interactions with end-users and suppliers.
• Rationalism & Cost Reduction:
Reviews organisation-wide purchasing requirements and current practices in order to device and implement cost reduction measures through innovation approaches including minimum inventory levels, consolidation of orders to achieve economies of scale, long-term price agreements and synergistic relationships.
• Service Standards:
Works with end-users and suppliers to develop and agree service level standards that deliver tangible benefits to all parties.
• Supplier Relationships:
Establishes, fosters and maintains productive relationships with vendors and contractors to ensure good, reliable sources of supply and information.
• Management Reports:
Prepares senior management information reports on key purchasing activities.
• Purchasing Accountabilities:
Ensures thorough and complete procurement records are maintained in order to provide accurate accounting of all purchased goods and services and integrity of operations.
• Responsibilities according to RACI matrix currently adopted in FINE.
• Provides support for the implementation of Health and Safety policies, procedures and practices that create and instil an organizational culture that recognizes employee safety and health issues.