Strategic Procurement Transformation Lead

Salt Digital Recruitment; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment seeks a Senior Procurement professional in Abu Dhabi to redesign an enterprise operating model and collaborate with product and engineering teams delivering a new digital procurement capability. This is a strategic, non-technical role focused on policy, process and controls.

You will lead end-to-end procurement redesign, review segmentation, thresholds, approvals, and supplier management, advising cross-functional teams on procurement requirements while balancing

Qualifications

• 12+ years of Procurement experience.
• Senior strategic-sourcing and Procurement-operations responsibility.
• Significant Procurement transformation experience.
• Deep knowledge of sourcing, tendering, supplier management, policy and contracting.
• Experience operating across complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong commercial judgement.
• Ability to move between high-level operating-model decisions and detailed process questions.

Responsibilities

• Redesign Procurement processes end-to-end.
• Review procurement segmentation, sourcing strategies and thresholds.
• Challenge unnecessary approvals and administrative steps.
• Improve requisition and statement-of-work quality.
• Review strategic sourcing, RFQ/RFP, evaluation and award processes.
• Review supplier on boarding, qualification and performance management.
• Review procurement policy and control requirements.
• Translate policy and sourcing rules into explicit system/business rules.
• Define where automation is appropriate and where human judgement must remain.
• Advise product and engineering teams on Procurement requirements.
• Work with Finance, Legal, IT and business stakeholders.

Skills

Procurement strategy

Stakeholder management

Sourcing & Tendering

Contracting & Policy

Process optimization

Automation vs human judgement

Job description

Salt Digital Recruitment seeks a Senior Procurement professional in Abu Dhabi to redesign an enterprise operating model and collaborate with product and engineering teams delivering a new digital procurement capability. This is a strategic, non-technical role focused on policy, process and controls.

You will lead end-to-end procurement redesign, review segmentation, thresholds, approvals, and supplier management, advising cross-functional teams on procurement requirements while balancing