Sourcing Assistant - Medical Supplies

Job Description:
As a sourcing assistant (Medical Supplies) your role is to support the Sourcing Team, to identify their needs and to match vendors and suppliers across EU with focus on Scandinavia. Working within the sourcing team, alongside the Sourcing Supervisors and manager.


Responsibilities:
Assist sourcing supervisors, manager and logistics teams
Initiate a good relationship with potential vendors and suppliers
Obtain and record critical information from potential new vendors and suppliers such as their corporate profile, key products, details of recent business events, licensing etc. Corporate profile should provide information about product offer, turnover, customer base, capacity and introduction of key decision-makers.
Attend all regional Hospital and Medical Supplies related business events like exhibitions, seminars, webinars, product launch etc.
Maintain the tracker for all new vendors and market entrants so the potential and progress can be accessed at any time by the partnership and/or business development department.
Support logistics teams for facilitate the exports of medical supplies.

Skills:
Have an understanding of Hospital and Medical Supplies market Place
Relationship Initiation with vendors and suppliers
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, Urdu, Hindi and Arabic
Strong at building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Good negotiation skills
Pro-active
Attention to detail
Ability to work on your own or as part of a team
Flexible
Outgoing and confident
Able to travel minimum 50% of the time