Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Category Management

First Abu Dhabi Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

First Abu Dhabi Bank in Abu Dhabi seeks a Specialist Sourcing to execute strategic procurement across defined categories. You will align demand and supply, drive value for money, and support risk reduction through robust category management.

Role involves negotiating with suppliers, developing category plans, and delivering savings while collaborating with Finance, HR, and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with FAB's objectives and governance.”

Qualifications

• 0 -1 year demonstrable sourcing category management experience including writing and executing sourcing category strategies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work with senior level stakeholders to build trusted relationships
• Ability to align with business strategy and engage Senior Management to reinforce the value of SVM
• Can operate in a multi matrix performance driven structure able to lead cross-functional projects
• Excellent Communicator (verbal and written) and strong negotiator who can effectively manage relationships that are widely dispersed both functionally and geographically

Responsibilities

• The Specialist Sourcing is responsible to ensure suppliers and contracts are delivering value for money minimizing risk and improving service and social objectives for the categories of responsibility
• Provides leadership and accountability ensuring process compliance and delivering optimal sourcing benefits from category management
• Ensures best commercial value is negotiated and obtained for purchases. Specifically prepare requests for quotations negotiate select and identify most appropriate supplier (price quality conditions) in collaboration with requesting department. Also negotiate contracts with legal department
• Works with the Category Manager and Head of Sourcing to defined FAB Category strategy setting performance objectives and monitoring progress. Also actively engaging with and securing support from key local stakeholders (Finance HRG)
• Collaborates with stakeholders to create manage and execute category plans e.g.: Develops annual category sourcing plans through detailed analysis of contracts spend analysis usage patterns future demands and benchmark data ensuring full alignment between FAB requirements and SVM targets
• Lead transformational change through category strategies to include demand management specification review and grouping of similar goods and/or services using catalogue management techniques

Skills

Sourcing category management

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

First Abu Dhabi Bank in Abu Dhabi seeks a Specialist Sourcing to execute strategic procurement across defined categories. You will align demand and supply, drive value for money, and support risk reduction through robust category management.

Role involves negotiating with suppliers, developing category plans, and delivering savings while collaborating with Finance, HR, and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with FAB's objectives and governance.”