Manager Procurement (Procurement Excellence)

Qatar Airways; Doha; On-site; QAR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qatar Airways is seeking a Manager of Procurement (Procurement Excellence) to drive procurement excellence, policies and governance. You will lead a team, develop cost-saving strategies, and partner with senior stakeholders to ensure best value for the group.

You will oversee category planning across strategic and operational workstreams, monitor performance, and push continuous improvement while maintaining high professional standards in a dynamic, international environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with minimum 8 years of job-related experience.
• Strong general procurement knowledge.
• Fluent command of English language.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to influence and build effective business relationships across diverse groups.
• 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 direction and mentor.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic analysis to clearly define comprehensive category planning.
• Develop cost saving plans for QR Group 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.
• Review and input to department policies and processes to achieve best practice and continuous improvement.
• Ensure high service levels from Procurement team including timelines and professionalism.
• Setting and achieving KPIs, regularly assessing progress to keep delivery on track.
• Review and endorse all documents submitted by staff for compliance and best practice.
• High-level negotiation with key suppliers on costs, terms and tender details.
• Assist in developing the departmental budget and manage project delivery timelines.
• Provide comprehensive summaries and data for reporting spend and timelines.
• Lead category team, prioritise workload and tender allocations.

Skills

Procurement knowledge

Fluent English

Strong communication

Negotiation skills

Managerial skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

General Information

Ref # 238631

Location: Qatar-Doha

Job family: Corporate & Commercial

Closing Date: 2026-11-23

About the role

As the Manager of Procurement (Procurement Excellence), your main focus will be on ensuring procurement excellence and optimization. You will work on improving procurement policies, processes and governance. You will also analyse and develop strong strategies, agreeing cost savings targets interfacing with senior management and stakeholders. You will manage supply to ensure best value for the company in line with its strategic, financial and operational requirements. You will drive and motivate the team to achieve set goals and do continuous monitoring and analysis to ensure further improvement.. You will manage the assigned team, ensuring compliance and high professional standards are maintained.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic

• Provision of strategic analysis to clearly define comprehensive relevant 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 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.

Qualification

About You

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 8 years of job-related experience.
• Strong general procurement knowledge
• 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.