Procurement Consultant

AtkinsRéalis; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Life insurance coverage

Medical insurance

Annual leave balance

Company gratuity scheme

Discretionary bonus program

Annual flight contribution

Transportation & housing allowances

Employee Wellbeing Program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis in UAE is seeking a procurement professional to lead sub‑consultant frameworks and supply base management. You will support category strategy, governance, and audit requirements, ensuring frameworks align with performance data and sourcing pathways.

The role emphasizes analytics, cross‑functional collaboration, and continuous improvement across procurement processes and ERP/SRM platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in procurement, category management, or supplier management.
• Experience managing frameworks or preferred supplier lists.
• Strong understanding of sourcing governance and audit requirements.
• Strong analytical capability and ability to interpret performance data.
• Experience with ERP/SRM platforms (SAP/Ariba or similar).
• Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead on Sub‑Consultant Frameworks & Supply Base and maintain frameworks reflecting market capacity and business needs.
• Design and operate supplier performance criteria, refresh cycles, and escalation routes.
• Introduce performance tracking and use insights to drive improvement and supply‑base optimisation.
• Ensure frameworks are actively used, reducing maverick sourcing and improving mobilisation speed.
• Identify capacity gaps, capability risks, and opportunities to streamline the supply base.
• Support the definition of in‑house vs outsource principles within Category Strategy.
• Provide supply‑base insight to inform decision‑making playbooks.
• Coordinate across technical, commercial, and capacity stakeholders to shape category strategy.
• Support definition of mandatory sourcing steps and audit‑ready documentation requirements.
• Ensure frameworks integrate with standardised sourcing pathways and improve defensibility.
• Provide supplier and framework insights to improve sourcing quality.
• Support continuous refinement of sourcing processes based on lessons learned.

Skills

Procurement

Category Management

Supplier Management

Analytics

Stakeholder Engagement

Collaboration & Teamwork

Governance & Compliance

Tools

SAP

Ariba

Job description

Overview

This role will lead on management of sub‑consultant frameworks and supply base. It will also support category strategy for sub‑consultants and project sourcing. The role ensures frameworks are performance‑led, aligned to category strategy, and integrated within consistent sourcing processes.

Your role

Lead on Sub‑Consultant Frameworks & Supply Base

• Maintain and refresh sub‑consultant frameworks to reflect market capacity and business needs.

• Design and operate supplier performance criteria, refresh cycles, and escalation routes.

• Introduce performance tracking and use insights to drive improvement and supply‑base optimisation.

• Ensure frameworks are actively used, reducing maverick sourcing and improving mobilisation speed.

• Identify capacity gaps, capability risks, and opportunities to streamline the supply base.

Support Category Strategy Management for Sub‑Consultants

• Support the definition of in‑house vs outsource principles.

• Provide supply‑base insight to inform decision‑making playbooks.

• Ensure category strategy inputs are aligned with framework structure and performance data.

• Coordinate across technical, commercial, and capacity stakeholders to shape category strategy

Support Standardised, Auditable Project Sourcing

• Support definition of mandatory sourcing steps and audit‑ready documentation requirements.

• Ensure frameworks integrate with standardised sourcing pathways.

• Provide supplier and framework insights to improve sourcing quality and defensibility.

• Support continuous refinement of sourcing processes based on lessons learned.

• Provide guidance on ERP use of all sourcing activities

About you

• 5+ years' experience in procurement, category management, or supplier management.

• Experience managing frameworks or preferred supplier lists.

• Strong understanding of sourcing governance and audit requirements.

• Strong analytical capability and ability to interpret performance data.

• Experience with ERP/SRM platforms (SAP/Ariba or similar).

• Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate across teams.

• Supplier & Category Management

• Analytical & Commercial Insight

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Governance & Compliance Discipline

• Performance & Risk Management

• Collaboration & Teamwork

• Framework utilisation and coverage across categories.

• Timely framework refresh and performance tracking cycles.

• Compliance with sourcing governance and audit requirements.

• Supplier performance improvement outcomes.

• Reduction in off‑framework sourcing.

• Stakeholder satisfaction and delivery quality.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Tax-free salary.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Medical insurance.

• Annual leave balance.

• Company gratuity scheme.

• Discretionary bonus program.

• Annual flight contribution.

• Transportation & housing allowances.

• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

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