Procurement & Supply Chain Manager - Doha, Qatar

About Saur

Role overview

Strategy, sourcing, and contracts

• Set procurement policies, procedures, controls, and priorities; develop category strategies, procurement plans, and dashboards.
• Lead sourcing, RFQ/RFP, bid evaluation, negotiation, recommendations, and awards; balance quality, service, timing, risk, and total cost.
• Deploy relevant group contracts and framework agreements, develop local and regional alternatives, and maintain auditable records.
• Qualify and manage suppliers; monitor quality, cost, delivery, HSE, ethics, and compliance; manage contract changes, claims, renewals, and close-out.

Purchasing, logistics, and inventory

• Oversee requisitions, quotations, purchase orders, expediting, receiving coordination, invoice matching, and payment follow-up.
• Coordinate with Finance to resolve transaction discrepancies and maintain accurate supporting documentation.
• Oversee freight forwarding, customs clearance, delivery coordination, receiving, inspection, storage, preservation, stock counts, and obsolescence management.
• Improve stock availability using min/max levels, reorder points, demand planning, and controls for excess and slow-moving inventory.

Risk, value, and leadership

• Identify supply, supplier, logistics, inventory, and single-source risks; develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Support continuity through critical-spares planning, alternate sourcing, supplier-capacity assessment, and delivery recovery.
• Report savings, cost avoidance, working-capital improvements, and process efficiencies; drive digitalization, data quality, and standard ways of working.
• Lead, coach, and develop procurement, purchasing, logistics, and warehouse personnel; build stakeholder relationships and represent the function in management reviews.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in procurement and supply chain management.
• At least 10 years of procurement, supply chain, logistics, or contract management experience, including at least five years in management.
• Experience in utilities, water, infrastructure, industrial services, construction, or operations-driven environments.
• Proven experience in sourcing, tendering, negotiation, supplier management, framework agreements, and logistics coordination.
• Qatar/GCC and international procurement experience is advantageous.
• Professional certification in procurement, supply chain, or logistics is advantageous.

Skills and languages

• Strong sourcing, negotiation, supplier management, contract follow-up, and procurement governance skills.
• Financial awareness including budget control, cost optimization, savings tracking, and total cost analysis; good command of ERP/procurement systems and Microsoft Office.
• Full ability to work in English; Arabic and/or French is advantageous.
• The role requires structuring procurement activities, translating business needs into compliant supply solutions, anticipating risks, and building supplier and stakeholder relationships.