Procurement & Supply Chain Manager
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About the Role
Develop and implement sourcing strategies, manage suppliers, ensure compliance, and drive cost-saving initiatives while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies for key categories (polymers, solvents, fillers, packaging, logistics, maintenance services, etc.)
- Analyse global and regional markets for construction chemicals raw materials; monitor price trends, capacity changes, and geopolitical / FX risks
- Consolidate spend across plants and countries to leverage global volumes and negotiate favourable contracts
- Identify, evaluate, and qualify new suppliers in line with technical, quality, EHS, and compliance requirements
- Lead contract and price negotiations, frame agreements, and service level agreements
- Drive supplier performance management: OTIF, quality, cost, innovation, and sustainability KPIs
- Develop strategic partnerships with critical suppliers for long term supply security and joint innovation
- Ensure continuous supply of critical materials to all manufacturing sites with minimum stock outs and optimal inventory levels
- Work closely with Production, Planning, R&D, and Quality to align material specifications, safety stocks, and phase in/phase out of products
- Deliver annual cost saving and value engineering targets (price reductions, TCO optimization, substitution, consolidation)
- Ensure adherence to corporate procurement policies, ethics, anti corruption, and competition law
- Own and improve end to end procurement processes (PR PO cycle, approvals, vendor onboarding) in ERP (e.g., SAP)
Requirements
- Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Chemistry, Business, or related field
- 7 10+ years procurement experience, ideally in construction chemicals, specialty chemicals, or related manufacturing
- Strong negotiation, contracting, and stakeholder management skills in a multinational environment
- Experience with ERP systems and procurement analytics; strong Excel/Power BI skills
- Fluent English; Arabic language(s) preferred
- Advanced degree or CIPS/ISM certification is a plus
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies for key categories (polymers, solvents, fillers, packaging, logistics, maintenance services, etc.)
- Analyse global and regional markets for construction chemicals raw materials; monitor price trends, capacity changes, and geopolitical / FX risks.
- Consolidate spend across plants and countries to leverage global volumes and negotiate favourable contracts.
- Develop overall strategy for sourcing together with production team for manufacturing and sourcing of materials with a combination of own manufacturing, contract manufacturing, peer to peer purchase and imports keeping in view cost and satisfactory customer service
- Identify, evaluate, and qualify new suppliers in line with technical, quality, EHS, and compliance requirements.
- Lead contract and price negotiations, frame agreements, and service level agreements.
- Drive supplier performance management: OTIF, quality, cost, innovation, and sustainability KPIs.
- Develop strategic partnerships with critical suppliers for long term supply security and joint innovation.
- Procure services at optimised cost for design and engineering of the plant, machinery and building.
- Procure P&M, IT services and other required services for construction of the plant as per the design approved by the production team.
- Manage procurement of all other miscellaneous one time and regular purchase items.
- Ensure continuous supply of critical materials to all manufacturing sites with minimum stock outs and optimal inventory levels.
Typical Requirements
- Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Chemistry, Business, or related field; advanced degree or CIPS/ISM certification is a plus.
- 7 10+ years procurement experience, ideally in construction chemicals, specialty chemicals, or related manufacturing.
- Strong negotiation, contracting, and stakeholder management skills in a multinational environment.
- Experience with ERP systems and procurement analytics; strong Excel/Power BI skills.
- Fluent English; Arabic language(s) preferred.
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