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As the Manager of Procurement (Procurement Excellence), your main focus will be on ensuring procurement excellence and optimization. You will work on improving procurement policies, processes, and governance. You will also analyze and develop strong strategies, agreeing on cost savings targets while interfacing with senior management and stakeholders. Your responsibility includes managing supply to ensure the best value for the company in line with its strategic, financial, and operational requirements. You will drive and motivate the team to achieve set goals, conducting continuous monitoring and analysis for further improvement, while ensuring compliance and high professional standards are maintained.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic
- Provision of strategic analysis to clearly define comprehensive relevant Category planning.
- Develop cost-saving plans for the organization from budgeted amounts to reduce overall expenditure.
- Responsible for the definition of supply strategy for relevant product categories.
- Develop cross-functional strategic planning with colleagues to ensure that the organization leverages all possible benefits.
- Review and input to department policies and processes to achieve best practices and continuous improvement.
Operational
- Ensure high service levels from the Procurement team, focusing on timelines, professionalism, communication, and expectations.
- Set and achieve KPIs, regularly assessing progress to keep delivery on track.
- Review and endorse all documents submitted by staff for compliance and best practice, ensuring alignment with the company strategy.
- Responsible for high-level negotiation with key suppliers on costs, commercial, and contractual terms, assisting reports where required and for high-value/risk tenders to achieve increased value at reduced costs.
- Assist in developing the departmental budget, manage quality control throughout the project life cycle 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.
- Run, review, and act on performance reports for assigned categories to improve processes and deliverables.
- Challenge user timelines, specifications, sourcing methods, and supplier lists as necessary to achieve optimal outcomes, supporting Procurement Specialists as needed.
- Prioritize and assign workload and tenders to the entire Category Team; provide support to other Procurement Managers where required.
- Forward plan for procurement activities including 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 are boundless here. You will find infinite opportunities to grow and tackle the biggest challenges that will enhance your skills and experience. Join us to contribute to our future and create the life you aspire to be a part of in an international community.
Qualification
About you:
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with a minimum of 8 years of job-related experience.
- Strong general procurement knowledge.
- Fluent command of the English language.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment, under pressure, with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to influence, convince, and establish 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 including the ability to delegate work, set clear direction, and manage workflows, along with mentoring and coaching skills.
- Ability to train and develop subordinates while fostering teamwork among team members.
General Information
Ref # 238631
Location: Qatar-Doha
Job family: Corporate & Commercial
