Category Manager Global Procurement Organization Construction Professional Service

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global company in Dubai is seeking an experienced Category Manager to develop procurement strategies for construction projects. The successful candidate will have strong negotiation skills, coordinate with multiple teams, and manage professional service vendors. Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree, 2 years of procurement experience, and proficiency in data analysis. This role offers opportunities for professional growth within a collaborative team environment that values innovation and performance.

Qualifications

• 2 years of procurement, purchasing, or supply chain experience required.
• High proficiency of English language needed.
• Experience in data analysis and financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Execute category sourcing strategies across different Business Units.
• Negotiate Service Level agreements with suppliers.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities effectively.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Data analysis

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Our overall mission is simple: we want Amazon to be the place where our customers can find discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want we will find the means to deliver it. With your help Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation. The Global Procurement Organization (GPO) is looking for an experienced Category Manager to develop strategies to ensure that we have Professional Service vendors available for our demanding construction projects across Europe and to ensure that we receive the best service available.

This is your chance to make history.

We are seeking a highly effective category buyer with Procurement experience to execute multicountry Procurement strategies and projects. The person in this role will coordinate with several teams across Amazon and will interact with our key vendors to satisfy organizational requirements. This role will partner with internal business owners and key stakeholders to manage Construction Professional Service spend like Project and Cost Management Design and Health & Safety works for new build projects and fitout upgrades. The position will work and partner with multiple teams to deliver savings improve productivity develop processes and scalability and execute category sourcing strategies.

Key job responsibilities

• Execute category sourcing strategies across different Business Units and countries
• Ensure reliable professional services are available for the Construction projects interacting with suppliers and negotiating the most favorable Service Level agreements
• Create manage and communicate RFX documents leading the tender process through to technocommercial evaluation post tender negotiation and contracting
• Understand the technical requirements of our partners and work closely with the stakeholder teams to guide the direction of procurement activities
• Strong negotiation skills and a track record of earning stakeholder trust taking ownership and delivering results
• Clearly communicate progress of all activities their status and track actions
• Standardize procurement processes operational tools operating standards and supplier management activities
• Analyze historic spend data to support strategy development rate cards and catalogue adoption
• Manage a number of projects simultaneously across various stakeholders while being able to manage priorities effectively to support and achieve on time delivery of requirements

About the team

Our team partners closely with Design & Construction Engineering and Operations teams and support functions to identify design and develop best-in-class category procurement strategy and procurement process to deliver operational excellency providing additional revenue to the business through innovation and reducing total costs of ownership within Amazon supply chain.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent
• 2 years of procurement purchasing supply chain related work in a procurement organization experience
• Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze large sets of data
• High proficiency of English language
• Data analysis capability and financial acumen
• Masters degree or equivalent
• Project management skills
• Ability to navigate project implementation involving various stakeholder countries and Business Units
• Experience working cross functionally with different internal and external seniority levels
• Presentation and training skills

Benefits

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Required Experience

Exec