Business Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager

🏢 Sundus Consultancy
📍 United Arab EmiratesFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 2w ago🔄 Updated: 2w ago
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The Business Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager in Dubai is responsible for developing and implementing sourcing strategies across multiple categories for the group. This role demands driving operational excellence, achieving cost savings, fostering innovation, and managing supplier relationships effectively. Key responsibilities include leading category transformations, managing total cost of ownership, establishing performance KPIs, ensuring contract compliance, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and at least 7 years of experience in strategic sourcing and category management, with preferred certifications like MCIPS or CIPS 3/4 level. Strong analytical, problem-solving, project management, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills are essential for success in this role.
Required Skills
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Analytical SkillsStakeholder ManagementPlanningNegotiation
Business, Sales & Management
Market ResearchHR ManagementProject ManagementRisk Management
Finance, Legal & Governance
Financial Analysis
Other
Cost SavingsSupplier assessment
Operations, Logistics & Supply Chain
Procurement
🎁 Benefits & Perks
health insurance, vacation days, bonuses
Requirements
Develop and implement sourcing strategies for multi-categories across group locations, leading strategies and ensuring operational excellence. Drive best category performance, delivering competitive advantage in cost, innovation, quality, and supplier relationship management. Manage cost savings, supplier and service improvements, and understand total cost of ownership for commodities. Establish KPIs, forecast budgetary impact, and track savings. Monitor contract compliance and manage key supplier relationships. Collaborate with stakeholders, present to committees, and uphold policies and regulations.
Description
Job Code: JPC - 6342Job Role: Business Strategic Sourcing Senior ManagerJob Location: DubaiKey ResponsibilitiesDevelop And Implement Sourcing Strategies for Multi Categories across Group Locations: Develop, champion and ensure successful implementation of plans and strategies to support all the assigned categories. Lead all the strategies and ensure operational excellence for the forall the assigned categories in line with sourcing guidelines and policy. Use leading sourcing tools to develop and implement Strategic Sourcing, including: supplier assessment, supplier financial analysis, RFI, RFQ & RFP based on certain threshold, Strategy Advisory, Scope Advisory, etcDrive best category performance across assigned categoriesDeliver sustainable competitive advantage for ENBD in the areas of Cost, Innovation, Quality and supplier relationship managementwhile ensuring flawless Service and Supply SecurityLead categories transformation and enhancement through economical supply of goods and servicesBusiness Process And Information Management: Drive annual cost savings, supplier and service improvement in each spend category across Group Locations. Work with the sourcing teams across Group Locations to streamline and improve sourcing processes. Gain a deep understanding of the categories under management to enable discussions around the total cost of ownership and lead commodity-based discussions with senior stakeholders.Measure And Track Performance Within Each Spend Category And Define Budgetary Impact: Establish KPIs for each spend category. Define the data collection process; forecast budgetary impact and track actual savings.Monitor Category Strategy Implementation And Contract Compliance: Actively monitor the performance of contracts under management of assigned categories to ensure savings identified are meet, and business comply with the contracts in place.Cross Functional Team Management: Meet stakeholders weekly / monthly to collaborate and discuss all the activities, including ensuring alignment of sourcing team across Group Locations.Supplier Relationship Management: Manage and develop key supplier relationships for the assigned portfolio.Drive Best Practices For Sourcing Categories: Ensure adoption of best practices and regular exchange of knowledge across Group Locations.Uphold Internal And External Policies, Regulations And Laws: Maintain a working knowledge of applicable laws across the bank International locations.Stakeholders & Internal Customers: The Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager will work with int/ext stakeholders to ensure key project deliverables and timelines for Projects are met.Manage the internal stakeholders on three levels: Strategic, Tactical and operational advisory.Manage directly Senior internal stakeholders EVPs, VPs )Committees: The Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager will present the projects related to their category to the Sourcing Board (SVPs and VP audience)Build persuasive presentations for the Group Procurement committee, Exco and Board.SkillsBachelor s degree in civil engineeringMCIPS, CIPS 3 / 4 level - PreferredMulti-year track record in delivering cost savings and strong supplier performance.Specific commodity experience.7 year+ Strategic sourcing/category management.Technical skills: problem-solving and analytical skills, construct/execute multiple complex analyses simultaneously, market research & intelligence, demand management, risk managementManagerial skills: project management, negotiating skills, change management, stakeholder management, planning categories.Thinking-related: passion for reducing cost, able to work in a dual matrix environment and lead savings strategies.People-related: distinctive leadership, comfortable with conflict.Self-related: self-starter and independent worker.Key StakeholdersBusiness / Tech Strategic Sourcing HeadsStakeholders and Internal CustomersSuppliers and Government OrganizationsInternational Sourcing & Category Management Units ( Risk, Compliance, HR, GOPS etc.) Group Sourcing committeeNetwork steering committee
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