Manager Procurement (Catering & F&B)

Qatar Airways; Doha; Sur place; QAR 400 000 - 800 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Qatar Airways in Doha seeks a Manager of Procurement for Catering and F&B to lead category strategy, analyse spend and drive cost savings. You will manage a team, ensure supplier performance, and align with senior management on objectives and budgets.

Ideal candidates will have a strong Catering & F&B background, 8+ years of experience, and demonstrated leadership in a complex corporate environment. This on-site role offers broad exposure within a global airline group.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with minimum 8 years of job-related experience.
• Strong Catering and F&B category experience with at least 5 years.
• Fluent English language with strong communication skills.
• Ability to influence, build strong business relationships and negotiate effectively.
• Managerial skills to delegate work, guide the team and manage workflow.

Responsabilités

• Provide strategic analysis to define Catering and F&B category planning.
• Develop cost-saving plans to reduce overall expenditure for QR Group.
• Define supply strategy for relevant product categories and cross-functional planning.
• Review policies and drive continuous improvement within the department.
• Lead procurement team to ensure high service levels, KPIs and timelines.
• Negotiate high-value contracts with key suppliers and monitor outcomes.

Connaissances

Catering & F&B expertise

English fluency

Negotiation

Communication skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Formation

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Description du poste

General Information

Ref # 238632

Location: Qatar-Doha

Job family: Corporate & Commercial

Closing Date: 2026-11-23

Description

About the role:

As the Manager of Procurement for Catering and F&B Category, your role is to manage and drive all procurement requirements in this category. To analyse and develop strong category strategies, agreeing cost savings targets interfacing with senior management and stakeholders. To manage supply to ensure best value for the company in line with its strategic, financial and operational requirements. To drive and motivate the team to achieve set goals and do continuous monitoring and analysis to ensure further improvement in the category and department. Managing the assigned team, ensuring compliance and high professional standards are maintained.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic

• Provision of strategic analysis to clearly define comprehensive Catering and F&B Category planning
• Develop cost saving plans for QR Group from budgeted amounts to reduce overall expenditure.
• Responsible for definition of supply strategy for relevant product categories
• Develop cross functional strategic planning with colleagues to ensure QR leverage all benefits possible.
• Review and input to department policies and processes to achieve best practice and continuous improvement.

Operational

• Ensure high service levels from Procurement team for QR Group including timelines, professionalism, communications and expectations.
• Setting and achieving Catering and F&B Category KPIs, regularly assessing progress to keep delivery on track.
• Review and endorse all documents submitted by staff for compliance and best practice, complying with the company strategy.
• Responsible for the high-level negotiation with the key suppliers on costs, commercial and contractual terms and assisting reports on this where required, and tender is high value/risk to achieve increased value at reduced costs.
• Assists in developing the departmental budget. Manage quality control throughout project life cycle by maintaining delivery timelines, mitigating project risks, and act as a liaison with all project stakeholders to ensure effective change management.
• Provide comprehensive summaries and data for reporting activities on spend, timelines, current operational state.
• Run, review and action performance reports on assigned Categories to improve way of working, and deliverables.
• Challenge user timelines, specifications, sourcing methods, suppliers' lists where appropriate to achieve the optimal outcome for QR, supporting Procurement Specialist in this also.
• Prioritize and assign workload and Tenders to the whole Category Team. Provide support to other Procurement Managers where required.
• Forward planning for procurement activities including full accountability for category planning in conjunction with stakeholder senior management.
• Perform other department duties related to his/her position as directed by the Head of the Department

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Together, everything is possible

Qualification

About You

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 8 years of job-related experience.
• Strong Catering and F&B category specific experience - minimum 5 years
• Fluent command of English language
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work in a very dynamic environment, under pressure, with multiple stakeholders
• Ability to influence, convince, and build effective business relationships across diverse groups of people.
• Service-oriented mindset, with a desire to ensure stakeholder satisfaction
• Excellent negotiation planning, management and execution skills
• Contractual and Financial acumen.
• Planning, problem solving and decision making abilities.
• Managerial skills - Ability to delegate work, set clear direction and manage workflow. Strong mentoring and coaching skills. Ability to train and develop subordinate's skills. Ability to foster teamwork among team members

About Qatar Airways Group

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.