Senior Buyer (Medical Consumable Supplies), Purchasing

Senior Buyer (Medical Consumable Supplies), Purchasing

Entity: Aga Khan University

Division: Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

Location: Karachi

Introduction to the Aga Khan University:

Chartered in 1983, it is a private, autonomous and self-governing international university with 13 teaching sites in 6 countries distributed across three continents. As an integral part of the Aga Khan Development Network, Aga Khan University (AKU) provides higher education in several disciplines, carries out research pertinent to the countries in which it exists and has campuses, programmes and/or teaching hospitals in Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda and the UK. As an international institution, AKU operates on the core principles of quality, relevance, impact, and access; and AKU is a model of academic excellence and an agent of social change.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Job Role / Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for:

• Regularly monitoring requisitions and making purchase order within stipulated time for timely delivery of ordered items.
• Obtaining quotations from suppliers, analyzing and evaluating these to make / recommend effective purchasing decision.
• Undertaking market surveys and market intelligence studies to enable / recommend effective purchasing decisions by meeting people, reading newspapers, magazines, purchasing journals and using internet.
• Making effective negotiations with suppliers for obtaining competitive prices.
• Meeting suppliers to strengthen business relationship; understand market trends, introduction of new products and resolve day to day issues.
• Meeting customers (end-users) regularly in order to understand their need, future projects, resolve their issues and queries.
• Improving purchase turnaround time through timely delivery of products.
• Rationalizing and optimizing inventory levels by reviewing stock reordering and replenishment processes to achieve turnover and fill rate targets.
• Ensuring proper documentation of all purchasing transactions.

Requirements:

• Master’s in Business Administration preferably in Supply Chain with at least three years’ of working experience.  
• Comprehensive knowledge of products to be purchased.
• Excellent negotiation skills and ability to persuade and influence.
• Excellent financial and analytical skills;
• Use of appropriate computer software for preparation of financial comparisons and other purposes.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.