Global Procurement Process Owner, Global Process Excellence

Q Tech General Trading LLC; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global e-commerce leader is seeking a skilled Senior Procurement Manager for transformative initiatives in procurement. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical capabilities, experience in process improvement in the supply chain, and excellent communication skills. This role demands leadership in managing complex projects and driving adoption of new processes to enhance operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in process improvement and digitalization in procurement.
• Experience defining and executing program requirements.
• Experience in supply chain with process mapping experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and program management for procurement processes.
• Identify key business challenges and drive process improvement.
• Communicate regularly with senior management on progress and risks.

Skills

Process improvement

Analytical abilities

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Amazon’s mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need to develop leaders who represent, and can innovate on behalf of a diverse and demanding global customer base. We are seeking a highly skilled, versatile, and strong Senior Procurement Manager, Procurement Innovation to lean a complex set of projects and initiatives and drive progress on key strategies.

With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation. This is your chance to make history.

The ideal candidate is a creative, demonstrated leader with strong ability to challenge ambiguity, superior analytical abilities with extensive experience in process improvement and digitalization in procurement / Source to Pay. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with process analysis, mapping AS / IS processes and define TO / BE by leading project teams.

At the core of the position is to bridge the gap to the best-in-class Taxonomy solutions in order to solve the needs of internal Global Procurement Operations customers. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

This position involves regular communication with senior management on progress, risks and change control. Ability to steer extended cross-discipline virtual teams as well as project management and executive presentation skills are essential to this role.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead of a) strategy and intake b) program management and adoption and c) serial-life support and continuous improvement for your designated processes
• Identify key business challenges to be solved through process improvement and mapping with best-in-class
• Influence the overall GPO Capability Model strategy and long-term roadmap
• Lead high-complexity end-to-end procurement process programs : from identifying the key business challenges, designing the right mechanism of change and delivering the desired strategic outputs and business objectives
• Design an iterative process of development, adoption and inspection and identify areas of improvement for next iteration
• Lead change management and adoption of the new process or SOP across the procurement function and business stakeholders
• Regular communication with senior management on progress, risks and change control
• Key metrics : customer experience, efficiency, adoption...

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree

Experience defining and executing program requirements

Experience in supply chain

Process mapping experience (AS-Is and To-BE)

Risk and Gap identification

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Master's degree

Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

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