HOD Procurement

Job Overview

Main Accountabilities

• Lead, manage, develop and coach, procurement team members to embed a culture of procurement excellence and best practice whilst maximizing individual strengths and talent.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors, business units and clients to sustain growth.
• Engage with all stakeholders to encourage vendors to prevent, detect and eradicate breaches of ethical standards.
• Identify internal staffing requirements and fulfillment of the same.
• Allotted staff administration including objective setting, regular reviews, JD's and appraisals.
• Increase Stakeholder satisfaction and reputation for procurement services.
• Review/develop Policies, SOPs & PIMS, in line with best working practices, ensuring compliance for the department too, including but not limited to CIPS, EcoVadis, ICV, ISO, etc. standards.
• Drive improvements in the procurement processes including escalations due to delivery/QHSE issues, invoicing/payables issues, and database management.
• Drive the reduction of the supply base, where possible, and aggregate volume to gain leverage.
• Define Procurement department objectives and oversee control throughout its life cycle.
• Instill required SLA's/KPI's in line with best working practices ensuring optimal operational support.
• Full accountability for buy and for delivery of annual Procurement targets (agreed with the COO), ensuring savings are realized, signed off and tracked in-line with the Benefits Methodology.

Other Skills And Competencies

• Negotiation -Actively help stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes in commercial dealings with third parties through practicing effective negotiation.
• Curiosity and Innovation - Demonstrate a proactive approach to exploring new ideas, methods, and technologies that enhance organizational effectiveness. Seeking opportunities to challenge existing practices, encourage creative thinking within the team, and contribute to the development of innovative
• Problem solving - Assess situations and identify the causes of problems by proposing appropriate solutions.
• Coping with change - Recognize the need for change and promote change in a positive manner to the team, encouraging their comments and contribution to the process.
• Dealing with conflict - Identify and minimize areas of potential conflict between colleagues and team members whilst recognizing the positive contribution that managed conflict that make to reaching shared solutions.
• Self awareness - Learning from mistakes, seeking and accepting feedback from the others in the organization and providing constructive comments to other to improve own performance and the performance of the team.
• Equality and diversity - Maintain and promote best practice in valuing and respecting diversity recognizing the positive contributions that such differences can bring to effective work practices.
• Honesty and integrity - Maintain, promote, and monitor personal and professional honesty and integrity.
• Must have a driving license (UAE) and own car.
• Must be able to travel (internationally) at short notice.
• Weekend and Public Holiday working, as and when required.

General Obligations towards Health, Safety and Environment