Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Plan and develop roadmaps/action plans to support current and future procurement needs.
• Responsible for analyzing vendor performance and company spend trends to create a sourcing strategy for the categories of spend being managed by the team.
• Prepare and present EITC’s sourcing strategies accurately and effectively to facilitate achieving objectives through various arrangements with suppliers
• Present weekly update reports to management on department activities and performance against KPI’s
• Day to day management of the Operations & Quality control team to ensure that the department goals, objectives, and KPIs are met.
• Ensure that the database of Emirati SME companies is up to date and that potential vendors get pre-selected in order to increase the business volume with SME’s as per the company’s commitment to the Dubai Economic Department.
• In collaboration with the Finance and respective departments develop and finalize the annual Sourcing plan for the various BUs and Support Units to forecast our purchasing requirement for a year.
• Ensure that the organization is achieving its revenue and profit commitments in sourcing and procuring goods and services by developing and monitoring the yearly Major Sourcing planned savings.
• Provide procurement and contract management advice, complaints analysis and dispute resolution services to requesters.
• Ensure that company’s procurement policies and procedures are being followed throughout the organization. Report violations to Management and Audit committee
• Develop and implement effective procurement and contract management processes and procedures, and provide leadership for strategic projects particularly in relation to major sourcing strategies.
• Approve documents in ERP in a timely manner in order to ensure operational efficiency: PID’s; TER’s; SSD’s; SER’s; PO’s
• Support implementation of any new ERP system enhancement and ensure that adequate training gets provided to the team.
• Communicate policies and procedures for the department along with all the required standard forms and documents, ensuring enforcement and updates.

Qualifications, Experience And Skills:

• Minimum Bachelor degree
• 10-15 years in a similar function preferably within the telecommunications industry
• In-depth Knowledge of key commercial elements and pricing structures of suppliers contracts
• High level Technical knowledge of non-telecom goods and services
• Knowledge of contract laws, and a complete understanding of Corporate T’s & C’s
• Familiarity with key telecom services and equipment
• Strong exposure to data analysis.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Planning and strategic thinking, Leadership Skills
• Excellent verbal & written English & preferably Arabic.
• Good Knowledge of ERP system (Oracle)