Procurement Consultant

SNC-Lavalin Fayez Engineering; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 420,000 - 600,000; 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 the UAE seeks an experienced procurement professional to lead sub-consultant framework management and supplier performance initiatives, aligning with category strategy and standardized sourcing processes.

You will refresh frameworks, design performance criteria, track outcomes and drive supply-base optimisation while reducing off-framework sourcing and ensuring auditable steps and ERP integration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in procurement, category management, or supplier management.
• Experience managing frameworks or preferred supplier lists.
• Strong understanding of sourcing governance and audit requirements.
• Analytical capability to interpret performance data.
• Experience with ERP/SRM platforms (SAP/Ariba or similar).
• Strong communication and cross-team coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead the refresh of sub-consultant frameworks reflecting market capacity and business needs.
• Design and operate supplier performance criteria, refresh cycles, and escalation routes.
• Introduce performance tracking to drive improvement and supply-base optimisation.
• Ensure frameworks are used to reduce off-framework sourcing and improve mobilisation speed.
• Identify capacity gaps and opportunities to streamline the supply base.
• Support definition of in-house vs outsource principles and alignment with strategy.
• Coordinate across technical, commercial and capacity stakeholders to shape category strategy.
• Define mandatory sourcing steps and audit-ready documentation, ensuring auditable processes.

Skills

Supplier management

Category management

Governance & compliance

Analytical capability

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Framework utilisation

Sourcing governance

Collaboration & teamwork

Performance & risk management

Tools

SAP Ariba

Job description

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

• 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.

• 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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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.