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What are questions I should expect, when attending a procurement engineer interview?

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Question added by Zachariah Habib Paliyathazhath , Procurement Engineer/ Contracts Administrator , FABTECH CONTRACTING L.L.C
Date Posted: 2013/09/13
Cagdas Kardas
by Cagdas Kardas , Operations Director , Berlitz Corporation

These are fairly generic questions but can be customizable for some specific aspects that the position may require.

 

1. Please describe your professional Pprocurement experience, including the types of products and services purchased, dollar amounts involved, and your role or involvement.

2. Please describe the approach you would take to procure something as a buyer.

3. What has been the most interesting procurement project and why?

4. Please describe your experience with financial systems in the procurement arena and your involvement from the procurement perspective.

5. Do you have any experience or project in which you displayed initiative to change an existing procedure or start a new procedure?

6. Describe a difficult supplier management situation that you found yourself involved in and tell us how you handled the situation?

7. How would you handle a difficult member of a cross functional team that you were a part of?

8. What methods have you used to search for a product or service that you know nothing about?

9. Describe your last position. What did you like best about it and least about it?

10. What unique trait or experience will you bring to this position?

11. What are top3 skills for Procurement professionals?

12. Where would you like to be in3 years?5 years?

13. What have you learned from your past jobs that related to Procurement engineer?

 

The list can be much more longer, these are the first ones I remember.

 

Have a nice day

 

Cagdas

elfatih mohamed ali Ali
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