Procurement Operations Manager

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

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Procurement Operations Manager to lead their procurement functions. The successful candidate will drive savings and manage vendor negotiations to ensure value extraction for all stakeholders. Key responsibilities include executing procurement strategies, maintaining compliance with financial controls, and enhancing supplier relations. Ideal candidates will have significant procurement operational experience and excellent analytical and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Manager level experience in procurement operations required.
• Strong ability to manage financial risks and vendor negotiations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement operations and manage low-level spend commodities.
• Ensure effective VMCP operating model and execute procurement strategies.
• Drive savings and monitor project budget against plans.

Skills

Procurement operational experience

Data analytics and reporting experience

Effective Customer engagement skills

Excellent presentation skills

Vision mapping of organizational objectives to department output

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 metrics
• Act 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