Job Description

Procurement Specialist

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Kazakhstan

We are looking for a Procurement Specialist who will cover end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities across assigned categories, with a strong focus on IT. The role includes tender management, supplier and contract lifecycle coordination, stakeholder partnership, and driving procurement efficiency in line with company policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Technically coordinate the purchasing activities within the organization.
• Implementing, and controlling contract and price negotiations to supply to the profitability of the company.
• Follow procurement and contract procedures in the company and its subsidiaries. Knowledge of categories such as IT, Facility & Office Management, Consulting, Technology.
• Coordinate and review Purchase Request for further approving and releasing PO.
• KYC additional check before realeasing PO.
• Coordinate the tender and benchmarking processes to ensure that Initiators align with procurement policies and procedures.
• Coordination of the contract with responsible departments (treasury, legal, IP, data protection, accounting, technical and other specialists).
• Control of terms of contract approval with weekly provision of report to company. Holding meetings and facilitation with responsible departments and contract initiators.
• Provide consultation and management of P2P process in ERP and CLM system Organization of signing contracts, including through EDI.
• Management of the register of contracts: analysis, systematization and extraction of statistical data.
• Management and control of Vendor Master Data in ERP system to proceed a payment.
• Maintain a database of all suppliers by categories.
• Maintain a database of all contract duration and notification of Initiators to prolong or terminate a contract.
• Manage signing process of all type of contracts to align with signing policy.
• Supplier search based on category and location upon request of a Stakeholder or Procurement Manager.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Previous experience no less than 2 years as Procurement Specialist.
• Degree or equivalent, or significant vocational experience showing development in a series of progressively more demanding relevant work in procurement, finance and contract management.
• Professional qualification or evidence of high. level understanding of relevant business disciplines: Finance and Contract management.

We offer

• Stable salary, official employment.
• Health insurance.
• Hybrid work mode and flexible schedule.
• Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support.
• Discount club membership.
• Diverse internal training programs.
• Partially or fully paid additional training courses.
• All necessary work equipment.