Procurement Specialist - Kuwait
3/15/2026
The Procurement Specialist is responsible for overseeing all procurement activities in Kuwait, focusing on the efficient and cost-effective acquisition of goods and services. This includes developing procurement strategies, negotiating terms, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring compliance with regulations.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
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Procurement Specialist - Kuwait
Job Description
The Procurement Specialist is responsible for overseeing all procurement activities within Kuwait, ensuring the efficient and cost-effective acquisition of goods and services to meet the organization's needs. This role involves developing and implementing procurement strategies, negotiating cost and T&C, managing supplier relationships, ensuring compliance with local and international procurement regulations, to achieve the company’s objectives
Job Responsibilities:
- Scope: Indirect and direct categories
- Develop and implement country-specific procurement strategies that align with the organization's global objectives and local market conditions
- Analyze procurement needs, trends, and market conditions to forecast demand and optimize decisions
- Review procurement procedures to set up common rules and practices in District, based on MER & Caspian Sea. Set up appropriate policies.
- Build a procurement yearly roadmap with an identified action plan
- Categories:
- Review car leasing model as well as Equipment,
- Implement a regional Travel platform,
- Ensure optimization of equipment and consumables at District level
- Lead the implementation of Group contracts (Dell, VWR, DHL etc...),
- Suppliers:
- Review Top suppliers and set up appropriate contracts and T&C (prices/discounts and payment terms conditions, KPIs) in coordination with MER and Caspian Sea Management, to put contracts in place
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- Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers and vendors to ensure reliable supply chains and timely deliveries
- Evaluate and review suppliers’ costs, after-sales services and efficiency, based on scorecards prepared by category
- Cost Management:
- Drive cost savings initiatives through effective negotiation, strategic sourcing, and process improvements.
- Monitor procurement budgets, ensuring expenditures are within approved limits and aligned with the company's financial objectives.
- Analyze and report on cost trends, savings, and procurement performance to senior management.
- Internal Stakeholders Collaboration:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
- Manage stakeholder engagement and alignment throughout the end-to-end sourcing
process (meet with department managers to understand the needs across each entity and extend to District)
- Forecast needs and supplies, working closely with all BUs and departments
- Prepare and execute bid packages utilizing RFIs, RFPs, set appropriate sourcing actions etc.
- Support savings tracking processes, measure contract compliance, and other key metrics to ensure targets are being met and value is being delivered to the business
- Develop, negotiate, and manage the contract process with legal department support
- Elaborate reports to show the efficiency of the projects implemented, Travels, LAB’s, Printers, etc.
- Clear target for savings
You must have:
- 5 to 7 years of professional experience in Sourcing and Procurement with an understanding of best practices and world-class processes
- At least 3 years’ knowledge in multi-procurement categories
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills
- Strong understanding of financial measurement; ability to identify and quantify legitimate areas of business benefit (cost savings, avoidance, client satisfaction, quality improvement, etc.)
- Previous global experience working within a multi-national, multi-cultural environment
Skills:
- Collaborative team player and leader, able to build a positive work environment
- Strong negotiation skills
- Ability to lead and influence change in the face of complexity and ambiguity
- Capable of performing in a fast-paced, goal-oriented, and time-sensitive environment
- Effective communication and presentation
- Knowledge of internal sourcing/procurement procedures and processes, and of the external trends, global supply markets, and best practices
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
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