Procurement Associate | Abu Dhabi, UAE

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank is seeking a Procurement Associate to manage various procurement activities and strategies for internal clients. This role focuses on developing stakeholder relationships, ensuring compliance with policies, and maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate is a recent UAE National graduate with strong analytical and communication skills, proficient in MS Excel and PowerPoint.

Qualifications

• Position for recent Graduates UAE Nationals only.
• Education in Business, Financial, Legal, or Technology required.
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills critical for the role.

Responsibilities

• Handle procurement activities and deliver optimized service.
• Support Category Manager for business plan value.
• Manage contracts, supplier relations, and procurement system tasks.

Skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Problem solving

Good communication Skills

Change management

Conflict management

Internal Customer Orientation

Education

Graduate with Business, Financial, Legal or Technology

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Procurement Associate

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• Handling procurement activities as instructed by Category Manager.
• To deliver an optimized service, quality and cost offering to internal clients of Centralized Procurement Department ensuring service excellence through demonstrable customer Satisfaction and significant cost saves.
• Support the Category Manager to deliver value to the Business Plan.
• Provide backend support to Business/requesting Dept, Sourcing and Cost Optimization

Job Description

Role: Procurement Associate

Location: Abu Dhabi

Role Purpose:

• Handling procurement activities as instructed by Category Manager.
• To deliver an optimized service, quality and cost offering to internal clients of Centralized Procurement Department ensuring service excellence through demonstrable customer Satisfaction and significant cost saves.
• Support the Category Manager to deliver value to the Business Plan.
• Provide backend support to Business/requesting Dept, Sourcing and Cost Optimization

Key Accountabilities of the role:

• To understand the overall role of Procurement and its value proposition.
• To develop and then deepen business stakeholder relationships.
• To engage in task responsibilities on Procurement System, involving PRs approvals and releasing RFPs for sourcing better options, price negotiations.
• Handling Contracts' track list, ensure to keep it updated, valid, and upload all the contracts on SAP ARIBA.
• Support Vendors to register in Procurement System and facilitate the process with the registration team.
• Understand ADIB Policies & Procedures and comply.
• Track prices for key inputs & assess business impact of the same
• Liaise with respective teams for the creation and publishing of contracts.
• Coordinate with VMCP team members for contract archiving process.
• Support BUs with system implementation, inputs for their purchases.
• Negotiating timescales or schedules as per job timelines and urgent deadlines.
• Support Procurement SLAs and reduce TAT where applicable.
• Daily intervention and follow up with suppliers to ensure timely deliveries and manage escalation by investigation the root cause of delay to avoid such repetition.
• Ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction, follow up with supplier on delivery, attend users calls and answer their queries.

Specialist skills / technical knowledge that will be important for this role:

• Analytical skills
• Excellent MS Excel & PowerPoint skills
• Problem solving
• Internal Customer Orientation
• Negotiation skills
• Conflict management
• Good communication Skills
• Change management and stakeholders' management skills.

Experience & Qualification:

• Graduate with Business, Financial, Legal or Technology
• This position is for recent Graduates UAE Nationals only.

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