Manager - Procurement - Aldar Education

Role Overview

Main Duties

• Manage procurement categories, support schools and projects, and contribute to procurement planning.
• Develop category strategies, manage procurement specialists, and oversee day-to-day procurement activities.
• Own procurement KPIs, trackers, risk reporting, and management updates.
• Lead procurement workstreams for technology projects, mergers, integrations, school openings, transitions, and special assignments.

Sourcing and Commercial Management

• Develop tender strategies, manage bidder lists and clarifications, govern evaluations, conduct BAFO stages, and prepare award recommendations.
• Run RFQs and RFPs, negotiate supplier terms, review award recommendations, and analyze markets and sourcing opportunities.
• Consolidate recurring spend, increase framework usage, reduce single sourcing, and identify standardization and economies-of-scale opportunities.

Contracts and Purchase Orders

• Support contract finalization, rate-card validation, payment-term review, amendments, signatures, expiry-risk management, and stakeholder coordination.
• Manage variation orders, contract amendments, purchase-order changes, source-to-contract activities, and required approvals.
• Maintain supplier relationships to support quality, timely delivery, dependable service, and competitive value.

Governance and Performance

• Ensure compliance with procurement policy, Delegation of Authority, approved processes, SLAs, and corporate governance requirements.
• Identify, document, and escalate procurement, contract, supplier, and continuity risks.
• Own Oracle Fusion operations, resolve workflow issues, support users, and drive process improvement.
• Monitor performance and prepare reports, dashboards, analyses, savings updates, cycle-time metrics, and recommendations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum graduate-level degree or related procurement-specific qualification.
• At least 10 years of procurement experience within the region; education procurement experience is preferred.
• CIPS certification is an added value.
• Fluent written and spoken English is required; Arabic is an added value.
• Excellent practical experience with Oracle Fusion is required; SAP Ariba or an equivalent platform is advantageous.

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