Procurement Specialist

Qatar Airways is seeking experienced professionals for the role of Procurement Specialist, based at our Global Business Services (GBS) in Ahmedabad, India.

As a Procurement Specialist, you will be responsible to perform operational tasks for all procurement requirements in a given or group of product or services categories, adhering to category strategy, in line with its financial and operational requirements. You will participate in managing vendor accounts, establishes strong interdepartmental relationship and provides time bound execution of tenders to enable procurement department to offer best in class to user department across the company.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Plan procurement activities in line with Category Plan, assist as required, meet timeframes as agreed with user department.
• Supporting and leading stakeholder management from start to end of process.
• Identify and proposes cost savings opportunities for QR Group to reduce total spend.
• Responsible for negotiations planning and execution with suppliers on costs, commercial and contractual terms. Track supplier performance to circumvent issues and achieve higher service levels for QR.
• Conducts a market search to identify a potential supplier as well as to maintain and promote sound relationships with suppliers and business community.
• Proactively manage internal user expectations and use best endeavors to meet reasonable user delivery requirements for projects.
• Act as a primary point of contact for internal user department procurement queries, projects and data requests.
• Responsible for development of savings solutions and benchmarking of industry standards.
• Interface with internal customers and suppliers to ensure best value for the company in line with its strategic, financial and operational requirements.
• Recommend process improvements to reduce RFQ timelines.
• Assist in ensuring that organizational requirement of goods and services are met through an open and fair process of tender.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with minimum 4 years of job-related procurement experience.
• Strong analytical ability to present data clearly and accurately.
• Flexibility and time management skills.
• Understanding of Business and Finance acumen is required.
• Negotiation skills.
• Numeracy and Analysis Preferred.
• Experience in procurement Services.
• Procurement related vocational qualification and / or educational credits.
• The candidate must have rich experience in service procurement.

Skills Required

Procurement, Negotiation, Process Improvement, Stakeholder Management