Procurement Manager
Role Overview
Senior leadership position responsible for procurement strategy supporting global operations.
Secures best-value products, materials, equipment, subcontractors, and services from international markets while building strategic supplier relationships.
Focuses on competitive commercial terms without compromising quality, performance, safety, or project timelines.
Key Skills for This Role
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About SIS Pitches
SIS Pitches provides sports surfaces and facilities for football, rugby, hockey, cricket, and multi-sport use.
Its work spans design, manufacturing, construction, surfacing, installation, and maintenance of natural, hybrid, and synthetic turf systems.
Position Summary
Senior leadership position responsible for procurement strategy supporting global operations.
Secures best-value products, materials, equipment, subcontractors, and services from international markets while building strategic supplier relationships.
Focuses on competitive commercial terms without compromising quality, performance, safety, or project timelines.
Strategic Procurement and Sourcing
- Develop procurement strategies and source materials, products, equipment, and services for sports pitch projects in Saudi Arabia.
- Identify and evaluate global suppliers and partners; maintain approved supplier frameworks and preferred vendor agreements.
- Monitor market conditions, industry developments, and pricing trends.
Supplier and Contract Management
- Build supplier relationships and assess quality, pricing, delivery, sustainability, and reliability.
- Negotiate long-term and high-value agreements; conduct supplier audits and due diligence where required.
- Review and administer contracts, ensuring compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
Cost and Supply Chain Management
- Deliver cost savings, lead value engineering, assess total cost of ownership, and prepare procurement budgets and forecasts.
- Manage schedules, mitigate supply chain risks, coordinate timely project-site delivery, and optimize transportation and storage costs with logistics providers.
Collaboration, Compliance, and Leadership
- Support project planning, tendering, bid preparation, and resolution of procurement issues with internal stakeholders.
- Maintain ethical procurement, accurate records, supplier standards, and continuous-improvement practices.
- Lead and develop the procurement function, mentor staff, establish KPIs, and report to senior management.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of procurement experience, including five years in a senior procurement role.
- Experience in construction, sports infrastructure, civil engineering, manufacturing, or a related industry.
- Proven ability to negotiate significant savings without compromising quality; strong commercial, analytical, and contract-management skills.
Essential Skills and Preferred Experience
- Essential: negotiation, influencing, commercial and financial acumen, procurement knowledge, contract management, analysis, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder management.
- Preferred: experience with sports turf systems, construction materials, irrigation, sports lighting, equipment, or specialist infrastructure products.
- Preferred: international markets experience and knowledge of procurement software and ERP systems.
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