Strategic Purchasing Director

The Red Sea Development Company; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Sea Coastal Trading Company, a specialized supply chain and logistics subsidiary under Red Sea Global, seeks a seasoned procurement leader to manage centralized purchasing for F&B, equipment, consumables, and services essential to operations.

You will drive strategic sourcing across multiple spend categories, develop procurement strategies, and lead negotiations to secure favorable contracts while coordinating with executive chefs and cost controllers to ensure timely deliveries and policy

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of procurement and supply chain experience with 5+ years in a senior leadership role.
• Experience managing large procurement spend across Direct & Indirect categories.
• Experience developing procurement strategies and category management frameworks.
• Strong sourcing and contract negotiation experience.
• Experience implementing procurement policies, governance, and controls.
• Supplier relationship management and supplier performance improvement.
• Spend analysis, cost optimization, and savings delivery.
• Procurement transformation and process improvement initiatives.
• Managing cross-functional stakeholders (Finance, Operations, Commercial, Legal, Logistics).

Responsibilities

• Develop, lead and execute purchasing strategies.
• Track and report key metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure clear requirements documentation.
• Forecast price and market trends to identify changes in buyer-supplier power.
• Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers.
• Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand.
• Obtain a minimum of three independent quotations for orders as per policy.
• Establish contracts to ensure negotiated prices for operating items.
• Coordinate daily item deliveries with Executive Chef.
• Update order receiving dates per supplier delivery dates.
• Send purchase orders to suppliers daily.
• Maintain up-to-date quotations and price lists.
• Research and identify new products and services for the hotel.
• Approve price/quantity discrepancy reports from cost control.
• Verify standing orders and Min/Max stock levels.
• Review pending orders daily and ensure verification.
• Identify standing orders with reliable vendor logistics.
• Ensure documentation and quotations are filed per policy.

Skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Sourcing

Supplier management

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain or related field

Job description

Red Sea Coastal Trading Company, a specialized supply chain and logistics subsidiary under Red Sea Global, seeks a seasoned procurement leader to manage centralized purchasing for F&B, equipment, consumables, and services essential to operations.

You will drive strategic sourcing across multiple spend categories, develop procurement strategies, and lead negotiations to secure favorable contracts while coordinating with executive chefs and cost controllers to ensure timely deliveries and policy