Global Indirect Procurement Manager

2 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Salt Recruitment Full time

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Responsibility and accountability for a procurement spend totaling approximately: $60-80m
- Full accountability and high autonomy in execution of role and significant influence across the regions
- Proactively engage and manage key senior stakeholders within the business in the General Services area
- Drive the review of the relevant expense that align to the main areas of indirect spend:

- Understand the nature of such expenditure with the objective of optimization and cost reduction by way of supply, demand, governance or compliance actions, expense and demand management
- Identify saving opportunities and initiate individual projects/initiatives at country/regional/global level
- Obtain endorsement and support for the category strategy with stakeholders to execute on key strategic procurement or other supply chain initiatives that will support efficiency cost reduction or risk mitigation
- Collaborate and support countries in their execution of initiatives aligned to the global category strategy
- Manage supplier risk to establish a stable supply chain that allows the Group to provide uninterrupted services
- Own and drive the overall global cost reduction and supply risk management for the Category
- Act as the cost challenger for the Group for the categories managed
- Commercially responsible and accountable for the category, leading cross-functional teams
- Drive and manage target setting and monitor results for the category, and ensure that all ambitions and objectives are effectively cascaded and achieved at the regional and local levels
- Ensure that the category contributes to the HSSE ambition
- Ensure that the objectives of sustainable procurement are achieved in own category
- Drive the implementation and realization of supply efficiency, quality, and process improvements within the Group
- Ensure that the category team has a formal charter that governs, establishes measurement criteria, and creates clear roles and responsibilities, and ensure the team has formal project strategies that are integrated and in alignment with stakeholders.
- Engage and work with the stakeholders to produce a needs assessment that is aligned to their business plans, resulting on a pipeline of procurement activities
- Align stakeholders through focused change management programs
- Ensure the implementation and tracking of performance indicators and achieved results
- Provide regular reports and updates to stakeholders as required
- Consolidation and coordination of needs/data for global tenders Implements regular category workflow reviews to ensure all stakeholder requests are being owned. Any gaps to be escalated to line managers.

**Required Capabilities**:

- Graduate in Marketing/Supply Chain/Procurement or equivalent with 5-8 years of purchasing experience
- Indirect spend experience a must
- Experience in different geographies and working with different cultures
- Certification as a CPM, CPIM or CSCP a plus
- Proven performance in managing and developing an international team in a global or regional procurement function (or equivalent), with requisite drive and energy to ensure challenging benefits and capability of building an agenda is successfully delivered
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Multi-lingual skills (English included) would be preferred
- Technical credibility to challenge/influence internal stakeholders and strong understanding of the spend categories and cost drivers to challenge stakeholders and suppliers
- Strong interpersonal skills to interact in a cross functional environment with various departments, employee levels in the organization and with suppliers
- Resilient, determined and able to work under pressure and with ambiguities, conflicts and adversarial relationships
- Able to multitask and work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to assess potential and risks associated with supplier and market changes, and integrate with category and sourcing strategies
- Proven ability in analysis and interpretation of data
- Proven ability to identify opportunities quickly, make sound judgments, establish, and implement solutions
- Must be able to work effectively in a team environment; understand and actively support the value of teamwork
- Consistently demonstrate attention to detail and strives to achieve high quality results
- Demonstrates ability to work against deadlines in supporting company goals
- Expert negotiation skills
- Experience in Supply Chain and Business Application Systems (Oracle ERP systems is a plus)
- Result oriented and able to influence change
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence effectively at all levels
- Ability to build and contribute to influential networks
- High degree of ethics and personal conduct
- Ability to contribute to all facets of project life cycles with the initial focus on HR and Financial Services, Travel and Entertainment, Marketing, IT
- Regional/Global business



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