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Date:
25-Jun-2022
Company:
Air Arabia PJSC (G9)
Location:
Sharjah, AE
Country:
AE
Job Purpose
- To provide an excellent, professional sourcing and procurement service to assigned entities within Air Arabia Group which delivers best value for money, service and quality from the most suitable suppliers.
- Act as a middle point between suppliers/vendors on one hand and internal Air Arabia Group management and departments on the other, to ensure satisfactory agreements.
Key Result Responsibilities
- Develop and implement procurement strategies to deliver ongoing cost reductions and process simplification. Taking responsibility for financial performance against plan and proactively develop a pipeline of innovative initiatives that reduces Indirect spend.
- Draft, evaluate, negotiate contracts, and administer contracts in accordance with company policies and legal requirements.
- Ensure that signed contracts are communicated to all relevant parties to provide contract visibility and awareness, interpretation to support implementation.
- Assists in implementing our strategic approach to overall spend, alongside internal stakeholders, advisors, and a wide range of external stakeholders; sets out a clear strategy to Shape & Optimise Cost Categories and keep the strategy updated over time.
- Implement supplier management policies to ensure consistent practises and develop strategic supplier relationships.
- Assist in setting up and maintaining company quality control program
- Supervises and handles Stores and Inventory control activities (as assigned) ensuring the adequacy and timeliness availability of needed material and products in accordance with business requirements and quality standards.
- Undertakes procurement activities including administration & documentation to deliver best value for money, quality, and security of supply commensurate with customer’s business needs; Ensure the most appropriate procurement processes are applied to meet business needs and transaction costs are minimised
- Collates performance data for the Commodity spends into agreed reporting formats; produces Management Information reports and necessary analysis to highlight critical areas, trends, discrepancies, excess, short supply, etc to support management decisions.
- Responsible for roll out, coordinating and managing the implementation of Procurement Systems including the user training, technical support, system improvements and user compliance with system utilization and administration.
- Carries out procurement research through internal customers, suppliers, and other sources of information to obtain feedback and assessment of procurement activities.
- Liaise regularly and collaborate with appropriate members of the Procurement function at Air Arabia Airline Hubs and subsidiary companies (Cozmo, SAS etc.) to ensure consistency of approach
- Keep abreast of business developments within Air Arabia affecting areas of responsibility and work closely with business users to understand their current and future business needs
- Keep abreast of and anticipate developments within relevant supply markets affecting areas of responsibility within Air Arabia and develop plans to capitalise on them.
- Keep abreast of current management and procurement techniques and thinking and use and deploy them as appropriate to ensure area of responsibility is at the forefront of modern thinking
- Directs, manages and develops the assigned team members to provide a sourcing and procurement service which meets the current and future needs of business users at least cost.
- Benchmarking supplier performance and Negotiation.
- Serves as the point of contact for vendors on contractual legal matters; liaises with internal managers, and vendors to identify and resolve issues.
- Drafts, evaluates, contract terms from legal aspects, administers contracts in accordance with company’s policies and legal requirements.
- Provides administrative support for all contract management activities such as contract termination, suspension, claims, variations, close-outs and extensions.
Qualifications (Academic, training, languages)
- Bachelor Degree in Management or equivalent combined with necessary experience.
- MCIPS or equivalent preferred.
- Have excellent communication skills
- Can show a history of career progression and ambition to grow further
- Excellent business writing and reporting skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Internet and Web Search (Excel advanced level).
- Detail oriented, comfortable with numbers, charts and data sheets.
- Fluent in English Language (Arabic is a plus).
Work Experience
- 5+ years of experience in a procurement/ Purchasing role in any industry handling technical procurement and/or professional services sourcing within a reputable international company or within a demanding.
- 2 + years of experience in supervising/managing small purchasing team in direct/indirect procurement environment is preferred.
- Capable of driving process improvement and internal control in line with adopted standards.
- Sourcing and supplier management process skills
- Experience in managing and negotiating with key vendors, strategically agile, with strong commercial acumen and exceptional negotiation skills in managing large, complex, preferably service-oriented contracts.
- Large outsourcing based development contracts in an Airline/Airport environment or other relevant sophisticated blue-chip, service or FMCG organization.
- Experienced in initiating and managing contracts of technical nature.
- Demonstrates skills in handling financial transactions with accuracy.
- Cooperative team player; possesses very good organizing and time management skills.
- Capable of preparing/extracting reports from different sources of data and identifying shortages.
- Multi-task oriented, responds to multiple assignments easily and promptly.
- Organized and demonstrates high attention to details.
- Willing to support and provide alternate solutions in ad-hoc scenarios and unplanned situations.
- Dependable, self-motivated takes ownership and acts proactively.
- Displays energy and enthusiasm.