Senior Procurement Specialist

Solutions+ (A Mubadala company); Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading procurement service provider in Abu Dhabi is seeking an Operational Specialist to manage and deliver procurement activities efficiently. The ideal candidate has 6-10 years of experience with strong knowledge of procurement processes and systems, particularly with Oracle Fusion. This role requires excellent supplier management and negotiation skills, contributing to effective procurement strategies and tools.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years in a procurement role.
• Strong working knowledge of Procurement Processes and systems.
• Experience in KPI/SLA Monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and manage end-to-end procurement activities.
• Register suppliers in Procurement systems.
• Administrate supplier payments and invoicing process.

Skills

Procurement Processes and systems

Supplier management

Tender management

KPI/SLA Monitoring

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Role Purpose:

The Operational Specialist is responsible to deliver and manage end-to-end procurement, legal, financial activities ensuring value delivery, efficiency, and compliance. Good understanding the tendering process, understand the technical aspects of it and dealing with suppliers. Also, has a good experience preferably with oracle fusion.

Role details:

• Register suppliers in Procurement systems
• Complete filling-in sponsorship and legal forms
• Ensure all necessary approvals for each sponsorship & post event ‘rights delivery’ reports are on the share drive and completed for each sponsorship
• Assist with all the steps that are required to ‘on board’ a new sponsorship
• Upload all contracts in MPower
• Creating work confirmation and work releases for payments
• Do LPO’s
• Managing suppliers’ payments, invoicing process and follow up
• Problem solving, resolve any issue between suppliers and support team
• Administration support like – i-visitor, booking meeting rooms, schedule meetings and arrange team offsites
• Understand and determine improvement opportunities for procurement tools. Working to define
• configuration that translates current procedure into system based controlled process. Challenging current procedure to leverage the best of the technology solution. Where the technology solution is bespoke, define functional requirements and system processes for review and challenge by the procurement team and work to execute the same with the technology services team.
• Assist in defining procedures and roles for managing the procurement process

Required skills:

• 6-10 years in a procurement role
• Strong working knowledge of Procurement Processes and systems.
• Supplier management
• Supplier registration
• Tender management
• Experience in KPI/SLA Monitoring
• Knowledge of outsourcing and contractual structures
• Analytical skills and ability to develop data-based recommendations
• Proficient in ERP with emphasis on Oracle fusion, Procurement modules, Microsoft Office suite, e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc.
• Negotiation skills