Procurement Manager

• To define the procurement strategy and policy for Pasha Malls: Communicating with company’s management to harmonize with the strategic objectives, monitoring the company's economic situation, gathering information about the needs of various departments;

• To manage the procurement department: Optimizing its organization, recruiting new talent, motivating, and training his/her team;

• To participate in negotiations: Assisting the team on complex or strategic cases, complying with framework agreements;

• To manage procurement projects: Implementing the necessary processes and tools;

• To monitor suppliers and procurement performance, defining key performance indicators, monitoring all costs and the procurement budget, regularly compiling reports;

• Carrying out complete contract cycle, including the issuance of tenders, making bidders list, commercial evaluation, drafting contract, and contract issuance;

• Confirming acceptability of the suppliers’ invoices;

• Evaluating spending operations while seeking ways to improve and enhance the quality of products purchased and the timeliness of deliveries;

• Ensure timely delivery of all orders;

• Handling urgent customer requests immediately;

• Maintaining relationships with suppliers while continually scouting for additional vendors;

• Communicating with Mall Managers regularly regarding the efficient flow of goods and services affecting production;

• Conducting cost analyses and setting benchmarks for improvement;

• Developing risk management procedures to mitigate losses in the event of product shortages;

• Supervising a purchasing team and delegating tasks across department when necessary;

• Initiation of the projects of enhancing the purchasing processes in the back-office system according to the business demands. 

• Bachelor / Master's degree in Technical, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or any other-related studies;

• Minimum 3 years of working as a Procurement Manager and overall, 6 years of experience in procurement;

• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate confidently at all levels and influence others to achieve results;

• MS Office proficiency (Excel, Word, Power Point);

• CIPS certificate is plus;

• Strong verbal and writing skills in Azerbaijani and English (min. Upper Intermediate);

• Experience in consolidated tenders (identification of scope consolidation opportunity, scope consolidation and delivery date coordination with stakeholders and consolidated tender execution);

• Experience in supplier performance management and customer management;

• Experience in supplier selection (pre-qualification), service execution performance analysing, suppliers’ development;

• Proven negotiation, conflict resolution, and management skills;

• Show proven results-oriented skills working under pressure;

• Ability to quickly build strong rapport and relationships with internal process partners and suppliers;

• Striving for high customer satisfaction work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.