Ports & Terminals Procurement Manager

CMA CGM; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

CMA CGM Abu Dhabi Regional Office is seeking a Ports & Terminals Procurement Manager to lead procurement, supplier relationships, and cost optimization for the P&T portfolio. You will develop strategies, negotiate contracts, and collaborate with Operations to ensure value delivery.

The ideal candidate has 7–10 years in ports/shipping procurement, strong English communication, and experience with Category Management. International travel may be required.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in procurement for ports, terminals, shipping or logistics are preferred.
• Strong English (spoken and written); French/Arabic is a plus.
• Proven negotiation skills across varied contract types.
• Experience with Category Management and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).
• Project management capability in a dynamic, complex environment.
• Analytical and data-driven with ability to draw insights from large data sets.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication; able to influence without authority.
• Finance knowledge to interpret P&L and financial statements.
• Legal knowledge related to commercial contracts and concessions.
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and creative in problem solving.
• MS Office mastery; Excel/PowerPoint; PowerBI would be an advantage.
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.

Responsibilities

• Procure for Ports & Terminals portfolio and manage supplier relationships.
• Establish annual budget and drive cost-saving initiatives.
• Develop sourcing strategies with cross-functional teams.
• Negotiate contracts, pricing and SLAs to secure favorable terms.
• Monitor supplier performance and ensure contract compliance.
• Maintain category playbooks and supplier scorecards.
• Lead workshops with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Keep internal tools and playbooks up to date; drive global standards locally.

Skills

Procurement leadership

English fluent

Negotiation skills

Category management

Supplier relationship

Project management

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Finance knowledge

Contract law

Attention to detail

Creativity

Excel

PowerPoint

PowerBI

Travel willingness

French/Arabic advantageous

Tools

Excel

PowerBI

Job description

Job description:

Purpose of the role:
This role is part of our Abu Dhabi Regional Office (ADRO) which covers the geographical scope from Southern Africa to the Indian Subcontinent. We are looking for a Ports & Terminals (P&T) Procurement Manager to join our team in Abu Dhabi. You will be in charge of procurement & supplier relationship management for the assigned portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Establish annual budget for the portfolio and actively manage with sourcing and optimization initiatives to deliver value.
• Develop and manage relationships with incumbent and potential suppliers.
• Analyzing current spend patterns, identifying cost drivers and opportunities.
• Conduct market research & stay updated on the industry trends to identify potential risks and opportunities and incorporate in category strategies.
• Develop models to analyze should costs, supplier offers, TCO/TVO to unlock opportunities of cost savings, value generation and optimization.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand their requirements for developing appropriate sourcing strategies.
• Participate and provide inputs to Line Management based on market knowledge, ensuring cost-optimal deployment of assets, in line with contracts.
• Leading creative idea generation workshops with suppliers and internal stakeholders and taking responsibility to drive results in the identified initiatives.
• Conduct contract negotiations in line with the Group Purchasing process and based on the six-step sourcing process methodology.
• Negotiate contracts, pricing & SLAs to ensure the best terms and conditions.
• Collaborate and coordinate extensively with Operations teams to develop agreements that include SLAs, secure constant improvement of our contracting clauses & ensuring vendors accountability towards SLAs.
• Close monitoring to ensure all agreements are realizing contractual values. Monitor supplier performance according to the contractual terms, report deviations and put in place appropriate actions.
• Ownership of all aspects of the portfolio – costs, performance, supplier relationshipmanagement, stakeholders, systems, compliance, documentation and housekeeping, communication materials. Keeping information up to date on internal tools and category playbooks.support and provide input to the leadership team, execution teams, head office teams todrive a red thread through local and global initiatives, improve synergies and implement global standards within contracts.
• Create, evolve, and enhance stakeholder map – we work in a complex universe with internal plus external stakeholders, this role will be responsible to own that map for assigned portfolio.
• Enhancing professionalization of the portfolio, including but not limited to, category playbooks, supplier relationship program, supplier performance & scorecards.
• Communicating complicated messages in compelling ways to senior stakeholders.
• Participate and provide input to wider cross functional procurement strategy.
• Execute and deliver on time in a high pace environment.

Profile & Qualifications:

• 7-10 years with Container Terminals, Ports, Shipping, Logistics in Procurement,Operation, Commercial capacity would be preferred.
• Expert English spoken & written communication skills. French/Arabic would be an advantage.
• Strong understanding of ports and terminals operations, liner shipping operations.
• Strong negotiations skills and experience of dealing with different types of negotiations.
• Experience with Category Management & Supplier Relationship Management.
• Demonstrated project management capability; ability to deal with ambiguity in a highlydynamic and complex environment.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and ability to build analyticalmodels. Comfortable with analyzing and drawing inference from large data sets.
• Excellent stakeholder management and confident communicator; ability to exerciseimpact without direct authority and possessing conflict resolution skills.
• Finance knowledge to draw meaningful conclusions from P&L accounts and financialstatements of company reports.
• Legal knowledge related to commercial contracts, concession agreements, etc.
• Attention to detail to ensure accuracy. Data based decision making approach.
• Structured and pro-active mindset with ability to think outside the box and be creative.
• Strong Microsoft Office suite skills – Excel, PowerPoint. Knowledge of PowerBI,dashboards on excel would be an added advantage.
• Ability to travel internationally in line with business requirements.