Strategic Procurement Lead (UAE National)

Maseera; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Maseera is seeking a procurement professional to support category sourcing strategy development and lead tender negotiations across Commercial and IT categories in the UAE. The role includes tracking RFPs/RFQs, reporting savings, and ensuring adherence to procurement policies and timelines.

The successful candidate will coordinate with IT, Finance, Legal, and internal stakeholders to optimize sourcing activities, monitor supplier performance, and drive cost savings across outsourced services and

Responsibilities

• Support the Category sourcing strategy development. Ensure that the sourcing strategies set out by the Management are followed by the department to deliver the desired results.
• Lead tender (RFP/RFQ) negotiations to ensure successful completion. Negotiate the best value for money and ensure that sourcing projects are meeting budget targets.
• Track RFP’s and RFQ’s against agreed timelines while optimizing sourcing activities timelines.
• Responsible of category management and commercial contracts related activities within the Commercial Procurement categories of spend (mainly Outsourced Managed Services and General Corporate procurement categories)
• Participate in internal audit activities by providing necessary information to internal auditors.
• Organize periodic meetings with internal stakeholders to understand and agree on way forward for relevant category sourcing requirements.
• Lead contract negotiations to ensure successful completion. Negotiate the best value for money and ensure that sourcing projects are meeting budget targets.
• Report savings and validate monthly ERP reports ensuring that individual targets are met.
• Assess major suppliers’ performance and prepare report to management.
• Provide Management with weekly reports on RFP’s progress, category spend, savings and performance against KPI’s.
• Build, maintain and strengthen positive relation with internal customer based on support and advice and improve BUs satisfaction by conducting satisfaction surveys after each RFP
• Ensure that all legal and contractual matters from commercial perspective are addressed efficiently and in a timely manner.
• Share and educate internal customers about any amendment of the procurement policy and procedures.
• Ensure that proposals are obtained from vendors on time through the digital procurement platforms.
• Review standard PO’s, blanket PO’s, consignment PO’s and contract PO’s and ensure data integrity is preserved.
• Deliver category management services, including strategic sourcing, process improvement, risk management, supplier performance management, and continuous cost and performance improvement
• Analyze supply base, category market conditions, stakeholder requirements, pricing trends, and competitive benchmarking to determine appropriate sourcing strategies;
• Develop and implement cost savings/value creation projects across professional services categories; Manage & Report savings and validate monthly ERP reports ensuring that individual targets are met; Establish and evaluate performance dashboard/metrics for professional services, support and maintenance and managed services categories (including FLM) categories
• Structure, negotiate, and manage service and supply agreements with suppliers, including complex long-term strategic agreements, short-term transactional agreements and project-based agreements; Ensure that all legal and contractual matters from commercial perspective are addressed efficiently and in a timely manner.
• Proactively engage, influence, and collaborate with the IT, Network, Finance, Legal, Quality, and Service Operations teams to ensure alignment on business objectives and project plans
• Drive stakeholder engagement within the IT, Professional Services, Service Operations, FLM, Finance, Legal, etc. Educate internal customers about any amendment of the procurement policy and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with purchasing policies and procedures, business code of conduct, ethical practices and adherence to relevant laws and regulations; Participate in internal audit activities by providing necessary information to internal auditors.
• Project Management: Track RFP’s and RFQ’s against agreed timelines while optimizing sourcing activities timelines.

Job description

Maseera is seeking a procurement professional to support category sourcing strategy development and lead tender negotiations across Commercial and IT categories in the UAE. The role includes tracking RFPs/RFQs, reporting savings, and ensuring adherence to procurement policies and timelines.

The successful candidate will coordinate with IT, Finance, Legal, and internal stakeholders to optimize sourcing activities, monitor supplier performance, and drive cost savings across outsourced services and