Procurement Coordinator

Role Purpose:

The role is responsible for procuring goods, materials, and services required to support seamless restaurant operations and Support Center activities. This includes ensuring optimal inventory levels, maintaining continuity of supply, and meeting cost, quality, and delivery targets—while adhering to contractual terms and supporting the company’s operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

* Prepare and raise purchase orders and order schedules.
* Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities.
* Work with planner to provide analysis on costs, new and existing and review cost reduction activities.
* Work closely with others in the function and review opportunities for continuous improvement and business enhancements.
* Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and keep up detailed, timely and excellent communications.
* Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures.
* Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery or invoice issues and escalate within the function if bottlenecks arise.
* Create call-off schedules and communicate plans with suppliers, logistics department and 3PL providers.
* Work with all relevant stakeholders to ensure timely order placement and coordinate with planners, suppliers and the logistics department to ensure the availability of goods.
* Work with the department manager, central procurement, finance to ensure the successful and timely launch of key projects.
* Participate in problem solving and troubleshooting by collaborating with team members to achieve correct inventory results.
* Identify opportunities for improvement related to capacity planning, productivity and plan attainment metrics through continuous improvement efforts as well as planning system parameters.
* Execute what-if scenarios in the mid and long-term horizon to anticipate end to end planning capabilities required to satisfy demands.

Education:

* Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or any related field.

Experience:

* Minimum experience of +3 years within the role of procurement or supply chain.
* Previous experience in Supply Chain administrative, coordination, purchasing roles in a similar business

Knowledge:

* Strong background in global supply chain standards.
* In-depth knowledge of Microsoft office.

Skills:

* Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills
* Outstanding communication skills.
* Demonstrated collaboration with multiple business stakeholders.
* Ability to work in a matrix environment with multiple business functions.
* Adaptability and ability to influence change.