Sourcing Manager, Procurement
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Company Description
MENA Procurement (A CollectiveSpend Group Company) is a leading procurement consultancy firm specializing in procurement consultancy.
MENA Procurement offers AI enabled procurement consultancy services with readily available catalogues.
The organization helps leading companies in the region to establish and enhance their procurement functions, ensuring innovative solutions and best practices, driving procurement transformation.
Role Description
To lead and manage end-to-end sourcing for strategic and tactical requirements while driving key emphasis on high-value and complex procurement specialized in IT and lead other indirect categories like Marketing, HR, Facilities Management for our client requirements.
This role is responsible for driving sourcing strategy across spend categories especially IT, Marketing and FM, optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO), mitigating commercial, contractual and operational risks, ensuring governance & compliance.
To ensure procurement activities consistently reflect the industry’s best practices in selecting suppliers considering best value, price, quality, timely deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Drive and lead sourcing strategies across assigned categories (IT Specialist covering software, hardware, IT cloud solutions, Information security, managed services and lead Non-IT procurement categories like Marketing, FM, HR etc) and ensuring benchmarking practices
- Drive cross-functional stakeholder engagement and alignment to centralize procurement, establish procurement planning and increase sourcing efficiency
- Establish and maintain a structured stakeholder engagement framework with all client's business units, with the objective of driving strategic sourcing activities and enhancing cross-functional collaboration
- Lead sourcing initiatives for complex, long term, large-scale requirements, ensuring cost effectiveness, full compliance with regulatory, operational, and contractual risk controls
- Oversee and provide governance for end-to-end sourcing processes including market analysis, strategy development, supplier identification, tendering tools selection (RFP/RFQ/RFI), and contracts management
- Conduct spend analysis, market intelligence, supplier risk assessments for all sourcing activities
- Lead negotiations and contract finalization, working closely with stakeholders like Legal, end-user, supplier
- Maintain category plans and preferred supplier lists to ensure continuity, and cost effectiveness
- Lead, oversee and support sourcing team on day-to-day activities
- Drive procurement initiatives and process optimization efforts in line with Client's strategic goals
- Monitor and report on sourcing KPIs, cost savings, efficiency and contract compliance
- Ensure adherence to relevant policies like procurement policy, procurement manual, SLA metrics, delegation of authority matrix, audit requirements, regulatory and statutory guidelines
- Knowledge and Skills
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and relationship management skills
- Handling multiple concurrent sourcing projects under tight timelines
- Driving measurable value in terms of cost, quality, risk, and sustainability
- Analytical and reporting capabilities to establish procurement scorecards
- Knowledge of procurement systems, strategic sourcing & Tender Management
- Lead a team, build category knowledge and sourcing capabilities
Experience
Minimum of 8-10 years of work experience in Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, with specialization in IT Software, IT Hardware, IT SAAS, PAAS, IAAS solutions, Information security solutions, IT managed services, and lead other procurement categories like Marketing, Facilities Management, Consultancy services, HR demonstrating experience in contract negotiation, and sourcing execution. At least 5 years' experience as a Sourcing Manager.
Employment Type
6 Months contract term and renewed based on performance
Visa Status
: Must have a UAE Golden Visa
(If qualified for the role, preference will be given to candidates who are currently not having a job and open to work)
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