Procurement Operations Manager

ADIB Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ADIB Group is seeking a Procurement Operations Manager in Abu Dhabi to lead VMCP procurement activities and support the Head of Department in executing procurement operations, policy adherence and governance.

You will drive cost savings, manage supplier engagements, risk controls, and spend governance across ADIB departments, ensuring robust reporting and value delivery for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Vision mapping of organizational objectives to department output
• Procurement operational experience
• Customer Management
• Effective Customer engagement skills
• Data analytics and reporting experience
• Excellent presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Lead VMCP reporting mechanisms to ensure reports provided to senior management with key information
• Identify opportunities /provide support to HOD and Category Managers to increase spend under VMCP influence
• Engagements with external thought-leadership to analyse industry best practices and identify opportunities to incorporate within ADIB
• Own and develop risk management strategies for ADIB engagements with strategic and critical vendors
• Drive the utilization of spend catalogue to ensure effective use of VMCP resources
• Lead the delivery of year-on-year savings for ADIB where opportunities exist to provide competitive advantage
• Responsible for department reporting activities incorporating savings risks BRCC RSCA ORM etc.

Skills

Vision mapping

Procurement ops

Customer Management

Customer engagement

Data analytics

Presentation skills

Job description

Description

Role: Procurement Operations Manager

Location: Abu Dhabi

Role Purpose:

- To lead the Procurement Operations Manager and support the HOD to execute duties associated with Procurement Operations including but not limited to the following:

• Responsibility to ensure an effective VMCP operating model including policy and procedures procurement technology targeted governance and control talent management of resources
• Responsibility for management and execution of VMCP low level spend commodities on behalf of ADIB departments
• Act as an enabler to increase VMCP overall spend influence to ensure value can be derived for all ADIB stakeholders
• Where required lead major negotiations and procurement activities engaging and presenting to senior stakeholders
• Proactively identify and reduce ADIB Risk across the supply chain
• Proactively identify opportunities to develop and institutionalize VMCP brand

Key Accountabilities of the role

Thought Leadership

• Lead VMCP reporting mechanisms to ensure reports provided to senior management with key information
• Identify opportunities /provide support to HOD and Category Managers to increase spend under VMCP influence
• Engagements with external thought-leadership to analyse industry best practices and identify opportunities to incorporate within ADIB
• Own and develop risk management strategies for ADIB engagements with strategic and critical vendors

Business As Usual Focus

• Continuous review of department P & P mapping to technology and ADIB objectives to ensure risks are managed and value is created
• Develop and implement formal awareness campaigns to ensure wider and appropriate understanding and adherence to VMCP Policy and Procedures
• Drive the utilization of spend catalogue to ensure effective use of VMCP resources
• Provide technology operational expertise to VMCP and internal customers improvement program to increase technology utilization
• Proactive management of the ADIB vendor commercial directory to ensure institutionalized competition risk management and alignment to ADIB overall objectives
• Effective management of VMCP low value and low risk spend commodity
• Develop and implement voice of the customer (internal and external) and factor feedback into department roadmap
• Lead the delivery of year-on-year savings for ADIB where opportunities exist to provide competitive advantage
• Responsible for department reporting activities incorporating savings risks BRCC RSCA ORM etc.

Governance & Controls

• Ensure effective controls are in operation to manage the potential financial loss
• Develop robust departmental KPI and KRI to ensure risks and value are identified and map to ADIB objectives
• Develop suite of reporting tools to enable VMCP to demonstrate its compliance to all associated metricsAct as point of contact for all engagements with Audit ORM ICD (etc.)

Financials & Benefits Realization

• Where requested effectively lead major vendor negotiations to deliver value for ADIB
• Liaise closely with Business teams to ensure accurate & robust budget monitoring against project plans
• Input into the annual Savings Pipeline generate and submit savings Track and monitor benefits realization against planned targets
• Ensure effective management and delivery of team budget /cost

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:

• Vision mapping of organizational objectives to department output
• Procurement operational experience
• Customer Management
• Effective Customer engagement skills
• Data analytics and reporting experience
• Excellent presentation skills

Required Experience:

Manager