Senior Specialist Operational Procurement

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

Job summary

A leading company in procurement services in Abu Dhabi seeks a Senior Specialist Operational Procurement. The role involves managing procurement processes, handling supplier registration, and ensuring compliance. Candidates should have experience with Oracle Fusion and strong analytical and problem-solving skills. A degree in Business Management and relevant certifications are preferable. A dynamic work environment awaits those with 6-10 years in procurement.

Qualifications

• Must have 6-10 years in a procurement role.
• Experience in admin and procurement experience required.
• Conversant in procurement technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end procurement processes.
• Ensure supplier registration in systems.
• Handle legal forms for sponsorship.

Skills

Strong communication

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Knowledge of Procurement Processes

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Education

Degree in Business Management

CIPS certification

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Senior Specialist Operational Procurement

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 Description:

• 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.

Job Specific knowledge and Skills:

• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of business processes and internal services and controls
• A team player able to work effectively in a multi-tasking environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Procurement Processes and systems.
• 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.
• End-user, relationship management
• Excellent business writing skills Technical writing skills

Qualification and Skills:

• Degree in BusinessManagement or equivalent. CIPS certification will be an advantage.
• Must be conversant in procurement technology and understand how to optimize this for best business use.
• 6-10 years in a procurement role and at least 3-5 years of experience in admin and procurement experience.

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