Tech Category lead

Role Overview

Category Management

• Develop category strategies, demand roadmaps, requirements, and supplier-market insight for core banking, cloud, infrastructure, SaaS, data and AI, cybersecurity, payments, and connectivity.
• Define RFP requirements, scopes, service levels, evaluation criteria, and implementation expectations.
• Provide demand forecasts, technology requirements, total-cost-of-ownership inputs, and supplier-market insight for sourcing and contracting.

Evaluation and Onboarding

• Coordinate Technology, Information Security, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and business experts on RFP content and supplier evaluation.
• Own business-side supplier onboarding and mobilisation after appointment, including implementation dependencies and service acceptance.
• Support security and control readiness, operational handover, and early-life performance monitoring.

Governance and Performance

• Ensure onboarding supports outsourcing, information-security, data-protection, resilience, and exit-readiness standards.
• Monitor category performance, service outcomes, consumption trends, and stakeholder feedback.
• Maintain category documentation, RFP requirements, evaluation records, and onboarding evidence.
• Use approved analytics and AI-enabled tools with human validation of outputs.

Required Skills and Experience

• At least 8 years of experience in technology category management, technology business procurement, or supplier management within banking or financial services.
• Senior leadership experience for a technology and digital category management team.
• Deep expertise in technology platforms and services, commercial models, software licensing, cloud consumption, cybersecurity, and fintech supplier ecosystems.
• Experience defining technology category strategies, RFP requirements, evaluation frameworks, and supplier onboarding in a regulated environment.
• Knowledge of CBUAE outsourcing expectations and information-security, data-protection, and operational-resilience standards.
• Exposure to AI-enabled procurement tooling, demand analytics, supplier-market insight, and total-cost-of-ownership analytics.

Preferred Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, technology, engineering, or a related field is preferred.
• A professional procurement certification such as CIPS or CPSM is preferred.
• CBUAE Fit & Proper and controlled-function eligibility criteria may apply where required.

Workplace

• The source metadata identifies the role as onsite in the Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates.