Vice President - Commercial Technology

ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE; Al Ruways Industrial City; On-site; AED 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ADNOC Group in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates, seeks a senior leader as Vice President – Commercial Technology to guide the technology agenda for procurement, contracts, and supplier management. The role requires overseeing ERP strategy, analytics, and enterprise applications to deliver measurable commercial value.

The position reports to senior leadership and demands extensive experience in multinational, asset-intensive environments, with a focus on governance, data quality, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 18 years of leadership experience in procurement, commercial operations, or related function.
• Experience leading large-scale digital transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of ERP, analytics, and procurement platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term technology vision for ADNOC Group's commercial function.
• Develop an integrated digital strategy across procurement and contracts.
• Translate priorities into a structured technology roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Establish governance for commercial systems, data, and processes.
• Lead major commercial digital transformation programs through implementation.

Skills

Procurement tech

ERP strategy

Analytics

Change management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or professional cert advantageous

Tools

ERP integration

BI platforms

Automation tools

Job description

Vice President – Commercial Technology

Role Snapshot

• Vice President – Commercial Technology
• Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
• Industry: Oil and Energy
• Function: Business-Strategic Management
• Experience: Minimum 18 years
• Job Type: Full-time

Role Overview

Vice President – Commercial Technology in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates is an executive Oil and Energy hiring opportunity responsible for shaping ADNOC Group's commercial technology strategy, digital transformation agenda, enterprise applications, analytics capabilities, and ERP roadmap. The role ensures that technology investments improve commercial performance, strengthen governance, simplify processes, and deliver measurable enterprise value.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Group Commercial Strategy and Excellence, the position requires a senior leader with extensive procurement, commercial, supply chain, technology enablement, and organizational transformation experience within a complex multinational environment.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi Emirate
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Business-Strategic Management
Salary: 85000-120000 (estimated; confirm with employer)
Gender: Any
Nationality: Any

Role Context

The Vice President – Commercial Technology will lead the development, governance, and execution of technology capabilities supporting ADNOC Group's commercial function. The mandate covers procurement systems, contract platforms, purchasing applications, supplier technologies, ERP integration, business intelligence, advanced analytics, automation, and data‑driven decision support. The role will connect Commercial, Finance, Digital, Technology, Supply Chain, and operating company stakeholders around a unified transformation roadmap, improving system adoption, data quality, process efficiency, commercial visibility, investment value, and enterprise‑wide decision‑making.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the long‑term technology vision for ADNOC Group's commercial function.
• Develop and maintain an integrated digital strategy covering procurement, contracts, purchasing, supplier management, planning, analytics, and performance reporting.
• Translate commercial priorities into a structured technology roadmap with clear investment requirements, delivery phases, and measurable outcomes.
• Align technology initiatives with ADNOC Group's corporate strategy, operating model, and long‑term business objectives.
• Establish governance for commercial systems, applications, digital tools, data, and technology‑enabled processes.
• Define enterprise standards for system architecture, process design, integration, data ownership, access, and controls.
• Ensure commercial technologies are implemented consistently across business units and operating companies.
• Review fragmented or duplicated applications and recommend consolidation, integration, replacement, or retirement.
• Lead major commercial digital transformation programs from strategy through implementation and adoption.
• Sponsor ERP, procurement, sourcing, contracting, supplier, purchasing, and reporting platform initiatives.
• Establish clear transformation objectives covering cost, productivity, cycle time, user experience, control, and business value.
• Monitor program delivery, risks, dependencies, expenditure, adoption, and benefit realization.
• Escalate material issues and coordinate corrective action with executive stakeholders.
• Ensure technology investments remain aligned with approved commercial priorities and financial plans.
• Lead the commercial ERP strategy and related enterprise application roadmap.
• Improve integration between procurement, contracts, purchasing, finance, inventory, supplier, and operational systems.
• Ensure systems provide reliable end‑to‑end visibility across commercial transactions and performance.
• Support standardization of master data, workflows, approvals, interfaces, and reporting structures.
• Strengthen controls over commercial data, system access, approvals, and transaction processing.
• Promote advanced analytics and business intelligence across the commercial function.
• Develop executive dashboards covering procurement, supplier, contract, purchasing, cost, risk, and value performance.
• Improve access to timely, accurate, and decision‑ready commercial information.
• Establish consistent data definitions, calculation methods, ownership, and reporting standards.
• Use analytical insights to identify savings, supplier risks, contract issues, process bottlenecks, and performance opportunities.
• Introduce predictive and prescriptive analytics where they can improve planning and commercial outcomes.
• Evaluate artificial intelligence applications for sourcing, supplier analysis, contract review, demand forecasting, risk identification, and decision support.
• Promote automation of repetitive, manual, and high‑volume commercial activities.
• Identify opportunities for workflow automation, intelligent approvals, exception handling, and self‑service reporting.
• Reduce duplication, processing delays, reconciliation effort, and manual data entry.
• Ensure automation initiatives preserve governance, security, regulatory compliance, and auditability.
• Improve user productivity while maintaining effective commercial controls.
• Partner with Finance leaders to align technology investments with budgets, business cases, and expected financial returns.
• Work with Digital and Technology functions to define architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, integration, and support requirements.
• Collaborate with Commercial and Supply Chain stakeholders to prioritize business needs and implementation sequencing.
• Coordinate with operating companies to understand local requirements while maintaining Group‑wide standards.
• Influence senior stakeholders to adopt common platforms, processes, and data practices.
• Establish investment governance for commercial technology projects.
• Review business cases, expected benefits, implementation costs, risks, and strategic alignment.
• Prioritize initiatives according to business value, operational need, regulatory importance, and delivery readiness.
• Monitor actual benefits against approved investment assumptions.
• Address underperforming systems or initiatives that fail to deliver expected value.
• Define key performance indicators for technology adoption, process efficiency, data quality, system reliability, user satisfaction, and value realization.
• Prepare executive reports on digital transformation progress, technology performance, and investment outcomes.
• Present strategic recommendations, risks, and funding priorities to senior leadership.
• Convert complex technical information into clear commercial and financial implications.
• Maintain transparent governance over decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and expected benefits.
• Lead organizational change associated with new systems and digital ways of working.
• Develop stakeholder engagement, communication, training, and adoption strategies.
• Ensure employees understand new processes, responsibilities, controls, and system capabilities.
• Monitor adoption and address behavioral, technical, or operational barriers.
• Build a culture of data‑driven decision‑making and continuous digital improvement.
• Lead and develop a high‑performing commercial technology and analytics team.
• Define responsibilities, performance objectives, capability requirements, and succession plans.
• Develop expertise in ERP, business applications, analytics, automation, and transformation governance.
• Promote collaboration between commercial, financial, digital, and technical specialists.
• Establish relationships with strategic technology vendors, implementation partners, and professional service providers.
• Evaluate vendor capability, delivery performance, commercial value, security, scalability, and long‑term support.
• Ensure third‑party solutions comply with ADNOC standards and contractual requirements.
• Support negotiations involving technology scope, service levels, licensing, implementation, and support.
• Maintain awareness of emerging procurement technology, ERP, analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital commerce trends.
• Benchmark commercial technology capabilities against leading global organizations.
• Identify innovations that can improve ADNOC's commercial performance and enterprise resilience.
• Ensure all initiatives comply with information security, data privacy, internal control, audit, and regulatory requirements.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• MBA, postgraduate qualification, or relevant professional certification is advantageous.
• Minimum 18 years of progressive leadership experience in procurement, commercial operations, supply chain, technology enablement, or a related business function.
• Extensive experience leading large‑scale digital transformation programs.
• Proven responsibility for ERP, enterprise applications, procurement platforms, analytics, or business intelligence initiatives.
• Strong understanding of end‑to‑end procurement, sourcing, contracts, purchasing, supplier management, and commercial performance processes.
• Experience operating within a large, complex, multinational, or multi‑business organization.
• Previous exposure to energy, oil and gas, industrial, infrastructure, utilities, or another asset‑intensive sector is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to define digital strategies, technology roadmaps, governance standards, and investment priorities.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Experience evaluating business cases, technology investments, operating costs, and benefit realization.
• Strong knowledge of business applications, ERP integration, data governance, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence.
• Ability to connect technology capabilities with commercial outcomes and operational requirements.
• Proven success influencing executive stakeholders across Commercial, Finance, Digital, Technology, and Supply Chain functions.
• Strong strategic thinking and enterprise‑level decision‑making capability.
• Ability to manage complex transformation portfolios with multiple dependencies and stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong understanding of change management, user adoption, and organizational transformation.
• Experience leading high‑performing multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to explain technical subjects in clear commercial language.
• Strong judgment when balancing value, cost, risk, security, governance, and delivery speed.
• Commitment to operational excellence, innovation, accountability, and sustainable value creation.

Skills Set

• Business‑Strategic Management
• Commercial technology strategy
• Digital transformation
• ERP strategy
• Enterprise applications
• Procurement technology
• Source‑to‑pay systems
• Contract management systems
• Supplier management platforms
• Purchasing applications
• Business intelligence
• Advanced analytics
• Predictive analytics
• Artificial intelligence
• Process automation
• Workflow automation
• Technology governance
• Application governance
• Data governance
• Master data management
• Systems integration
• Digital roadmap development
• Technology investment planning
• Business case evaluation
• Benefit realization
• Commercial performance analytics
• Executive dashboards
• Process standardization
• Process optimization
• Operating model transformation
• Change management
• User adoption
• Stakeholder management
• Executive influence
• Cross‑functional leadership
• Vendor management
• Technology risk
• Information security
• Data privacy
• Strategic planning
• Financial acumen
• Team leadership
• Operational excellence

Why Join Us

This executive opportunity offers direct ownership of ADNOC Group's commercial technology, analytics, ERP, and digital transformation agenda. The Vice President will influence how commercial decisions are supported, how procurement processes operate, and how enterprise technology investments generate measurable business value. The role provides significant exposure to executive leadership, complex transformation portfolios, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, enterprise systems, and Group‑wide commercial operations. It is well suited to a senior leader seeking a visible mandate with long‑term impact on productivity, governance, cost efficiency, decision quality, and organizational capability.

About the Company

ADNOC Group is a major integrated energy organization headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, with operations spanning exploration, production, processing, refining, petrochemicals, logistics, trading, and lower‑carbon energy solutions. The group combines large‑scale industrial capability with digital transformation, commercial excellence, advanced technology, and responsible energy development to improve operational performance, strengthen enterprise value, and support the future of global energy.