Senior Procurement Officer - Tanzania

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, South America, Southern Africa, Ghana and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium is currently recruiting for a Senior Procurement Officer to join our project team in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, the Senior Procurement Officer, this role will be responsible for the purchasing, expediting, transport logistics, freight schedules, maintenance of procedures and information reporting for your allocated project.

The tasks you'll perform

• Preparing plans for the purchase of equipment, services, and supplies.
• Maintaining good supplier relations and negotiating contracts.
• Managing inventories and maintaining accurate purchase and pricing records.
• Reviewing, comparing, analyzing, and approving products and services to be purchased
• Researching and evaluating prospective suppliers
• Preparing budgets, cost analyses, and reports.
• Drafting and issuing ITTs, RFQs, and POs, ensuring alignment with project specifications, schedules, and procurement policies, while coordinating with internal teams to ensure all necessary information is included.
• Evaluating supplier proposals, identifies departures, prepares reports, and ensures alignment with specifications and timelines.
• Communicating with suppliers to clarify queries and ensure awareness of tender timelines and deliverables.
• Preparing recommendation reports for Approval and executes PO Contracts.

The expertise you'll bring

• Min 5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge and demonstrable experience in all aspects of Procurement.
• Familiar with Mining Local Content Regulations
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables.
• Extremely well-developed written and verbal communication skills. 
• Display the core values and ethos of the business.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provide access to a benefits, rewards and recognition platform that also offers great discounts to hundreds of retailers in Australia.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.

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