Director Supply Chain & Procurement Intelligence (UAEN only)
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Key Accountabilities Plan and develop roadmaps/action plans to support current and future procurement needs. Responsible for analyzing vendor performance and company spend trend.
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Responsibilities
- Plan and develop roadmaps/action plans to support current and future procurement needs
- Analyze vendor performance and company spend trends to create sourcing strategy
- Prepare and present EITC's sourcing strategies accurately and effectively
- Present weekly update reports to management on department activities and performance against KPIs
- Day to day management of the Operations & Quality control team to ensure department goals are met
- Ensure database of Emirati SME companies is up to date and potential vendors get pre selected
- Develop and finalize the annual Sourcing plan for various BUs and Support Units
- Ensure organization achieves revenue and profit commitments in sourcing and procuring goods and services
- Provide procurement and contract management advice, complaints analysis and dispute resolution services
- Ensure company's procurement policies and procedures are followed throughout the organization
- Develop and implement effective procurement and contract management processes and procedures
- Approve documents in ERP in a timely manner to ensure operational efficiency
Requirements
- 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)
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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.
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).
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