Senior Sourcing & Transport Officer
Key Duties and Responsibilities Sourcing and Procurement Management Prepare sourcing plans from approved project and administrative requests, bills of quantity, technical specifications, budgets, and delivery schedules. Identify and qualify local and overseas suppliers and mainta
Key Duties and ResponsibilitiesSourcing and Procurement Management
- Prepare sourcing plans from approved project and administrative requests, bills of quantity, technical specifications, budgets, and delivery schedules.
- Identify and qualify local and overseas suppliers and maintain price benchmarks, market intelligence, and alternative sources for critical requirements.
- Issue RFQs and RFPs, coordinate technical clarifications, compare commercial offers, and submit supplier recommendations for approval.
- Negotiate price, lead time, payment terms, Incoterms, warranty, quality, delivery terms, and after-sales support while protecting project budgets and margins.
- Coordinate purchase orders and contracts and follow manufacturing, order readiness, and supplier delivery commitments through completion.
- Evaluate supplier performance, resolve sourcing gaps, expedite urgent purchases, and provide timely status updates to requestors and project teams.
- Plan telecom implementation material transport from ADIU or client warehouses and regional hubs to project sites, including approved return movements.
- Review client purchase orders, work requests, site lists, material documents, dimensions, weights, access conditions, delivery priorities, and security risks before dispatch.
- Design routes and delivery sequences, select the correct truck type and capacity, and consolidate loads or sites where practical.
- Source, prequalify, mobilize, and manage third-party transporters and negotiate route rates, distance categories, waiting time, offloading, last-mile, SLA, and framework-agreement terms.
- Verify vehicle availability, roadworthiness, insurance, driver credentials, safety equipment, and load-securing arrangements before dispatch.
- Coordinate loading, dispatch, tracking, site access, offloading, and handover with transporters, warehouse teams, project teams, and client representatives.
- Resolve breakdowns, route restrictions, delivery refusals, security incidents, and other delivery disruptions through prompt recovery and escalation.
- Complete proof of delivery, validate transporter invoices, and close each assignment through reconciliation and payment support.
- Maintain sourcing, supplier, transporter, dispatch, delivery, cost, and issue trackers using approved ERP, TMS, GPS, and reporting tools.
- Prepare daily updates, weekly plans, and monthly reports covering sourcing status, delivery performance, costs, revenue and margin exposure, and unresolved risks.
- Confirm commercial coverage for transport requests and escalate missing or incorrect purchase orders, routes, rates, or scope before costs are incurred.
- Monitor sourcing cycle time, supplier delivery, savings, telecom delivery performance, transport cost, proof-of-delivery closure, and transporter SLA results.
- Coordinate with Project, Technical, Finance, Property and Inventory Management, Warehouse, QEHS, suppliers, transporters, and telecom partners.
- Lead assigned sourcing and transport personnel and maintain compliance with ADIU policies, procedures, Finance controls, QEHS requirements, and transport and safety regulations.
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