Strategic Procurement Transformation Leader

Client of Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Salt is seeking a senior Procurement practitioner to redesign an enterprise procurement operating model and work directly with product and engineering teams delivering a new digital procurement capability. This is not a technology project-management role.

We require deep Procurement operating expertise combined with the ability to challenge existing policies, processes and controls. The role requires deep procurement operating expertise, the ability to challenge policies and processes,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of Procurement experience.
• Experience in 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 onboarding, 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.

Job description

Client of Salt is seeking a senior Procurement practitioner to redesign an enterprise procurement operating model and work directly with product and engineering teams delivering a new digital procurement capability. This is not a technology project-management role.

We require deep Procurement operating expertise combined with the ability to challenge existing policies, processes and controls. The role requires deep procurement operating expertise, the ability to challenge policies and processes,