Procurement Lead: Sourcing & Negotiation Expert

Royal Caribbean Group; Manila; On-site; PHP 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Caribbean Group seeks an experienced procurement professional to source, analyze and negotiate goods and services across strategic categories. The role requires knowledge of specialized commodities and the ability to influence suppliers and internal stakeholders in complex procurement decisions.

The candidate will research suppliers, develop negotiation strategies, analyze prices, and manage supplier performance to ensure high quality and cost efficiency while working with cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and knowledge.
• 5+ yrs. related procurement experience or specialized technical experience required.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects and priorities.
• Negotiation and analytical skills required.

Responsibilities

• Research suppliers from a variety of usual and unusual sources.
• Develops a procurement and negotiation strategy based on few variables.
• Performs moderately complex price analysis based on few variables and confers with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
• Negotiates price, availability, and works with Logistics to define transportation and delivery schedule. (i.e., ordering and storing schedule)
• Manages supplier performance to ensure consistent service, high quality and low costs of goods/services.
• Works independently with minimum supervision and freedom of decision within guidelines. Seeks guidance from management on unusual situations.
• May provide guidance to junior positions (i.e., Buyer I, Buyer II).
• May travel to attend trade shows, audit suppliers, visit ships for loadings, repositioning etc.

Skills

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Multicultural communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Royal Caribbean Group seeks an experienced procurement professional to source, analyze and negotiate goods and services across strategic categories. The role requires knowledge of specialized commodities and the ability to influence suppliers and internal stakeholders in complex procurement decisions.

The candidate will research suppliers, develop negotiation strategies, analyze prices, and manage supplier performance to ensure high quality and cost efficiency while working with cross-functional