Purchasing Manager - Al Zorah Beach Resorts in Ajman, UAE

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS); United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hotel management company seeks a Purchasing Manager for the upcoming Four Seasons Resort Ajman at Al Zorah, set to open in late 2026. The role involves overseeing purchasing operations, maintaining cost-effectiveness, and ensuring compliance with procurement policies. Ideal candidates will have hotel purchasing experience, strong negotiation skills, and integrity. Join a company that values a positive workplace culture and commits to professional development and employee satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Experience in hotel purchasing.
• Understanding of internal controls.
• Ability to prepare reports and deliver presentations.

Responsibilities

• Manage overall operations of the Purchasing, Receiving, and Storeroom Department.
• Conduct quality control audits and monitor costs.
• Ensure compliance with local and corporate policies.

Skills

Cost analysis

Negotiation

Problem-solving

Strategic-thinking

Job description

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company's commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

The Role of Purchasing Manager:

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a Purchasing Manager to join a new takeover project in the UAE: Al Zorah Beach Resorts in Ajman, UAE, as it embarks on an inspiring transformation journey. This evolution will culminate in the grand opening of Four Seasons Resort Ajman at Al Zorah in late 2026.

Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will be responsible for managing the overall operations of the Purchasing, Receiving, and Storeroom Department to ensure that all departments of the hotel have adequate supplies. Additionally, you will be responsible for keeping abreast of new and alternative products in the market to enhance cost-effectiveness and quality standards and to ensure that we maintain the highest level of integrity and transparency in dealing with business partners.

Responsibilities will include talent leadership and development, ensuring all local and corporate policies, internal controls, and safeguards are complied with, ensuring proper authorization has been obtained for all hotel-specific purchasing contracts and conduct, managing and completing competitive bids, ensuring management agreements and all other purchasing agreement terms and conditions are fulfilled, quarterly reviews, annual forecasts and budgets, conducting quality control audits, monitoring costs, coordinating all month-end, quarterly and annual inventories and supporting the hotel's Safety Committee and Green initiatives.

Our Ideal Purchasing Manager candidate will have:

Experience in hotel purchasing, sound cost analysis and cost management skills, a clear understanding of internal controls, a strong commitment to services, and basic technical knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles along with job knowledge of positions in Purchasing and Food & Beverage control.

You should have the highest level of integrity and transparency, strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills to work with cross-functional teams, the ability to prepare and deliver reports, effective presentations and to facilitate meetings, strong negotiation, problem-solving, decision-making, conflict-resolution, and strategic-thinking skills, and a desire to promote a continuous learning environment that creates an atmosphere for professional development opportunities.

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts can offer what many hospitality professionals dream of; the opportunity to build a life-long career with global potential and a real sense of pride in work well done. We look for talent who share the Golden Rule - people who, by nature, believe in treating others as we would have them treat us. As Four Seasons works towards phenomenal growth in the next decade, our most valuable partners continue to be our talent, with whom we have a strong relationship based on the Golden Rule. This relationship is made tangible by the awards received year after year by Four Seasons on a corporate level, as well as by our hotels, resorts, and residences around the world, making us an undisputed "employer of choice."