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As the Manager of Procurement for the IT Category, you will manage and drive all procurement requirements for this category. Your responsibilities include analyzing and developing strong category strategies, agreeing on cost-saving targets, and interfacing with senior management and stakeholders. You will ensure the best value for the company by managing supply in line with its strategic, financial, and operational requirements. In this role, you will lead and motivate your team to achieve set goals while continuously monitoring and analyzing performance for further improvement in both the category and department. You will also be responsible for ensuring compliance and maintaining high professional standards within your assigned team.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic
- Provide strategic analysis to clearly define comprehensive IT Category planning.
- Develop cost-saving plans for the organization from budgeted amounts to reduce overall expenditure.
- Define supply strategies for relevant product categories.
- Collaborate on cross-functional strategic planning to leverage all possible benefits.
- Review and contribute to department policies and processes to achieve best practices and continuous improvement.
Operational
- Ensure high service levels from the Procurement team, including timelines, professionalism, communication, and expectations.
- Set and achieve IT Category KPIs, regularly assessing progress to keep delivery on track.
- Review and endorse all submitted documents for compliance and best practices, ensuring alignment with company strategy.
- Conduct high-level negotiations with key suppliers on costs, commercial, and contractual terms; assist in reporting as necessary, especially for high-value or high-risk tenders aimed at achieving increased value at reduced costs.
- Assist in developing the departmental budget and manage quality control throughout the project lifecycle by maintaining delivery timelines, mitigating project risks, and acting as a liaison with all project stakeholders to ensure effective change management.
- Provide comprehensive summaries and data for reporting activities on spend, timelines, and current operational state.
- Review and act on performance reports for assigned categories to improve working methods and deliverables.
- Challenge user timelines, specifications, sourcing methods, and suppliers’ lists when appropriate to optimize outcomes, supporting the Procurement Specialist as needed.
- Prioritize and assign workload and tenders to the whole Category Team, providing support to other Procurement Managers when required.
- Engage in forward planning for procurement activities, holding full accountability for category planning in conjunction with stakeholder senior management.
- Perform other departmental duties related to this position as directed by the Head of the Department.
Be part of an extraordinary story
Your skills, imagination, and ambition can drive limitless opportunities for growth. You will face significant challenges that will enhance your skills and experience. Here, impossible is merely a challenge waiting to be overcome. Join us as we strive to achieve the unprecedented, knowing that together, everything is possible.
Qualification
About you:
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with a minimum of 8 years of job-related experience.
- Strong IT category-specific experience (minimum 5 years).
- Fluent command of the English language.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment under pressure, with multiple stakeholders.
- Proven ability to influence, convince, and build effective business relationships across diverse groups.
- Service-oriented mindset with a focus on stakeholder satisfaction.
- Excellent negotiation planning, management, and execution skills.
- Contractual and financial acumen.
- Strong planning, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Managerial skills to delegate work, set clear directions, and manage workflow. Strong mentoring and coaching skills with an ability to train and develop subordinates. Ability to foster teamwork among team members.
General Information
- Ref #: 238283
- Location: Qatar-Doha
- Job Family: Corporate & Commercial
- Closing Date: 2026-11-05
