Senior Associate Purchasing

7 days ago

Qatar QNB Full time

**Business Unit**
- QNB - Qatar-
**Division**
- Not Applicable-
**Department**
- Not Applicable-
**Country**
- Qatar-
**Closing Date**
- 31-Dec-2024**About QNB**:
Established in 1964 as the country’s first Qatari-owned commercial bank, QNB Group has steadily grown to become the largest bank in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.

QNB Group’s presence through its subsidiaries and associate companies extends to more than 31 countries across three continents providing a comprehensive range of advanced products and services. The total number of employees is more than 28,000 serving up to 20 million customers operating through 1,000 locations, with an ATM network of 4,300 machines.

QNB has maintained its position as one of the highest rated regional banks from leading credit rating agencies including Standard & Poor’s (A), Moody’s (Aa3) and Fitch (A+). The Bank has also been the recipient of many awards from leading international specialised financial publications.

Based on the Group’s consistent strong financial performance and its expanding international presence, QNB currently ranks as the most valuable bank brand in the Middle East and Africa, according to Brand Finance Magazine.

QNB Group has an active community support program and sponsors various social, educational and sporting events.

**Job Summary**:
The incumbent will assist in delivery of tactical and transactional sourcing activities in relation to operational spend and indirect services, not covered by the sourcing and category management teams. This is a fast paced, highly responsive and internal customer/stakeholder focused role where the role will assist sourcing for all categories of spend, and will action the RFQ (Request For Quote) tactical goods and services. The role will provide operational assistance in identification and sourcing of suppliers for delivering high volume / low value routine goods and services for the business in line with QNB policies.

**Main Responsibilities**:
**A. Shareholder & Financial**:

- Develop the appropriate KPI dashboards in alignment with the VP Purchasing
- Implements KPI’s and best practices for Senior Associate, Purchasing role.
- Promote cost consciousness and efficiency and enhance productivity, to minimise cost, avoid waste, and optimise benefits for the bank.
- Act within the limits of the powers delegated to the incumbent.

**B. Customer (Internal & External)**:

- Assist internal customers in all their tactical procurement requests / activities and seek solutions were required.
- Follow set procedures for tactical buying activity for operational planned spend opportunities within defined operational spend levels.
- Assist in the preparation of RFQ documents to be sent to suppliers ensuring all requirements have been listed correctly and accurately and obtain approvals prior to issuance
- Support the delivery of tactical sourcing activities for QNB such as e-auctions, RFQs and creation of contracts.in line with the department strategy through consolidation, synergy and economy of scale.
- Assist in the preparation of information relating to quality and availability of products and services, prices and timing of procurement.
- Work closely with category managers and business units to establish and deliver procurement requirements, strategic benefits and compliance to existing procurement contracts.
- Assist in the monitoring of non-compliant buying activities and escalate non-conformances to VP Purchasing in a timely manner.

**Supplier Identification and Selection**
- Support and assist VP Purchasing to identify and source suppliers for delivering high volume / low value routine goods and services for the business in line with QNB policies.
- Work closely with the SRM team to identify potential suppliers, enhance quality of goods and services delivered to the business.
- Work with suppliers to improve on-time delivery and achieve cost savings.
- Provide required information to assist with bid evaluations, cost analyses, price justification, and risk assessment of suppliers.
- Assist VP Purchasing with supplier negotiations preparations on new procurements or changes to existing purchase orders.

**Spend Analysis & Cost Saving**
- Collate analysis on a regular basis to ascertain opportunities to consolidate spend reduce cost and procurement cycle time.
- Recommend changes and cost-effective strategies where there is opportunity to reduce costs etc. in order to ensure that the end user requirements are met in accordance with corporate policies and commercial objectives.
- Assist sourcing leads and specialists with category related reporting and spend analysis (in collaboration with the Manager Procurement performance).
- Collate MI to report on compliance, procurement and operational KPIs.

**Stakeholder & Supplier Management**
- Receive purchase requirements and work in collaboration with stakeholders within procurement and across the business to ensure satisfaction in the sourcin

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