Procurement Operations Manager

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank is seeking a Procurement Operations Manager to lead the VMCP program in Abu Dhabi. You will align policy, technology, and governance with ADIB objectives while managing vendor relationships, savings initiatives and high‑value negotiations.

The role requires extensive procurement experience, advanced data analytics, and the ability to present to senior stakeholders. You will drive process automation, risk management, catalogue utilization, and cross‑functional collaboration

Qualifications

• Minimum extensive procurement operations experience.
• Strong data analytics and reporting skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead VMCP reporting to senior management with key metrics.
• Engage with Category Managers to increase spend under VMCP influence.
• Drive major vendor negotiations and contribute to savings initiatives.
• Develop risk management strategies for vendor engagements.
• Ensure department governance, policy and procedures are followed.

Skills

Procurement ops

Data analytics

Vendor management

Negotiation

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Education

CIPS qualification

LLB / legal awareness

Financial services exposure

Job description

Job description

Role : Procurement Operations Manger

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 METRICS For Procurement Operations Manager:

• Increase spends under influence for VMCP
• Enhance department reporting activities incorporating savings, risks, BRCC, ORM etc.
• Reduce process exceptions
• Ensure timely registration of vendors to enable competition
• Map catalogues spend v PO spend and drive digitalization
• Review Lifecycle activities to identify manual steps, governance, and control points
• Conduct findings assessment and gap analysis and document priority actions/roadmap
• Provide regular progress to plan to support process automation
• Enhanced Procurement Functionality

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 analyze 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

Previous experience:

• Minimum 12 years procurement experience
• Professionally qualified (CIPS) (or working towards), Legal awareness (LLB) and/or experience in Financial Services