PROCUREMENT ANALYST - BUYER

Description

Job Summary: A professional responsible for identifying, mapping, documenting, and improving procurement processes, negotiating with suppliers, planning procurements, and ensuring strategic supply. Key Highlights: 1. Identification and optimization of procurement processes. 2. Strategic negotiation with suppliers and procurement planning. 3. Market analysis and development of competitive suppliers. * Identify, map, and document existing processes \- Procure materials, services, and products requested from domestic and international markets. * Prepare instructions for price quotation collection. * Issue necessary documentation for the procurement process. * Propose improvements to methods and processes within the procurement chain. * Negotiate with suppliers. * Consult and analyze catalogs, manuals, and other promotional materials to enable accurate purchasing decisions. * Plan key procurements required for project implementation, defining supply lines, timelines, and strategies. * Participate in demand planning for materials jointly with end users—both for operating expenses and capital investments—providing market information and historical consumption data. * Propose procurement strategies for services, equipment, and materials (typically in complex markets), seeking value creation, supply assurance, and innovation. * Ensure selection of competitive suppliers through strategy development, team and role definition, negotiation preparation, supplier recommendations, and implementation of necessary changes and agreements with user departments. * Conduct supplier market assessments, identifying opportunities, gaps, strengths, and weaknesses via benchmarking to support continuous improvement. * Analyze economic indicators affecting material and equipment costs, and be capable of evaluating, critiquing, and proposing cost basket compositions reflecting cost evolution over time. * Execute procurement and monitor due diligence stages. * Collect information, perform critical analysis, and develop and implement action plans for suppliers at potential risk (e.g., insolvency, contractual default). * Enable operational integration with suppliers, focusing on mitigating procurement risks and defining tools for tracking expenditures and savings. * Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills for processes and results. **Required Knowledge and/or Skills:** * Familiarity with the supply chain for services, materials, and equipment\- Understanding of key performance indicators driving the materials and equipment supply chain. * Experience in material demand forecasting, sourcing, negotiation, and formalization of purchase orders/contracts in domestic and international markets. * Supplier selection and development. * Experience with SAP ERP MM module. * Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel. * Cost analysis for services, materials, and equipment. * English (intermediate level preferred) Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree