Manager - Process Engineering & Optimization | Real Estate | AFET

Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A diversified regional business in the UAE is seeking a professional for business process engineering. This role requires expertise in driving transformational change through digitization and process automation. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in process re-engineering and a strong analytical mindset. Responsibilities include optimizing supply chain functions and automating operational processes, while collaborating effectively with teams. Competitive compensation and growth opportunities will be provided.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Minimum 10 years experience with process re-engineering.
• Experience with data analysis methodologies.
• Knowledge of trends from data.
• Experience on NPS programs.
• Excellent data and trend analysis skills.
• Experience with CRM and financial data systems.

Responsibilities

• Optimize demand for materials and inventory levels.
• Standardize cost categories and budgeting.
• Automate manual operational processes.
• Analyze cost overspends and delays.
• Update Master Item List and integrate with tools.
• Measure Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).
• Quantify revenue from renewals and referrals.
• Conduct market research against industry standards.

Job description

Overview

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

Role overview

The individual would be required to perform “customer-centric” business process engineering. He/She would also be responsible to drive transformational change by implementing digitization and process automation across the business units.

Responsibilities

• Supply Chain Optimization: Predict demand for materials, optimize inventory levels, and forecast the best times to order supplies.
• Standardization (project level and P&L) of cost categories and booking the budget and costs accurately for white collar, blue collar, sub-contract (labor), sub-contract (Labour+service), Materials, etc.
• Process automation (using RPA or existing tools) of manual operational process like QC checks, procurement approvals, cost sheet approvals.
• Bid vs Did analysis to identify areas which had cost overspends or timeline delays and to identify the root cause.
• Creation of Master Item List, updating in SAP and integration with estimation tool.
• Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) metric that measures how much a business can plan to earn from a customer over the course of the relationship based on projects, services, costs.
• Quantifying revenue retained/lost from renewed/expired AMCs.
• Quantifying revenue from renewals and referrals and help to identify our most profitable and loyal customers.
• Market research to benchmark the BUs against industry standards.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business requirements into simplified solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Minimum 10 years experience with process re-engineering, business transformation and/or customer experience.
• Experience with slice and dice and drill-down data analysis methodologies.
• Data and analytics experience and knowledge of how to determine trends from data.
• Experience on NPS programs.
• Excellent data and trend analysis skills.
• Experience with CRM and financial data systems.

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies

Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.

The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation.

The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services.

These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.