Procurement Specialist
Department: Operations
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Kazakhstan
Description
We are looking for a Procurement Specialist who will cover end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities across assigned categories, with a strong focus on IT. The role includes tender management, supplier and contract lifecycle coordination, stakeholder partnership, and driving procurement efficiency in line with company policies.
Key Responsibilities
- Technically coordinate the purchasing activities within the organization.
- Implementing, and controlling contract and price negotiations to supply to the profitability of the company.
- Follow procurement and contract procedures in the company and its subsidiaries. Knowledge of categories such as IT, Facility & Office Management, Consulting, Technology.
- Coordinate and review Purchase Request for further approving and releasing PO.
- KYC additional check before realeasing PO.
- Coordinate the tender and benchmarking processes to ensure that Initiators align with procurement policies and procedures.
- Coordination of the contract with responsible departments (treasury, legal, IP, data protection, accounting, technical and other specialists).
- Control of terms of contract approval with weekly provision of report to company. Holding meetings and facilitation with responsible departments and contract initiators.
- Provide consultation and management of P2P process in ERP and CLM system Organization of signing contracts, including through EDI.
- Management of the register of contracts: analysis, systematization and extraction of statistical data.
- Management and control of Vendor Master Data in ERP system to proceed a payment.
- Maintain a database of all suppliers by categories.
- Maintain a database of all contract duration and notification of Initiators to prolong or terminate a contract.
- Manage signing process of all type of contracts to align with signing policy.
- Supplier search based on category and location upon request of a Stakeholder or Procurement Manager.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Previous experience no less than 2 years as Procurement Specialist.
- Degree or equivalent, or significant vocational experience showing development in a series of progressively more demanding relevant work in procurement, finance and contract management.
- Professional qualification or evidence of high. level understanding of relevant business disciplines: Finance and Contract management.
We offer
- Stable salary, official employment.
- Health insurance.
- Hybrid work mode and flexible schedule.
- Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support.
- Discount club membership.
- Diverse internal training programs.
- Partially or fully paid additional training courses.
- All necessary work equipment.
