Salary: Negotiable
Location: Abu Dhabi
Ref: BR186
Mark Williams are working with a leading bank in Abu Dhabi for a IT Category Manager - UAE National
Role: - The Category Manager will provide direction and guidance to Sourcing Manager(s) and Transactional Buyer(s) assigned to the category, to ensure suppliers and contracts are delivering value for money, minimizing risk, and improving service and social objectives for the categories of responsibility
- Provides leadership and accountability
- Ensure process compliance and delivering optimal sourcing benefits from category management
- Ensures best commercial value is negotiated and obtained for purchases
- Prepare requests for quotations, negotiate, select and identify most appropriate supplier in collaboration with requesting department.
- Negotiate contracts with legal department
- Works with the Head of Sourcing to defined Category strategy, setting performance objectives and monitoring progress
- Collaborates with stakeholders to create, manage, and execute category plans
- Develops annual category sourcing plans through detailed analysis of contracts, spend analysis, usage patterns, future demands, and benchmark data ensuring full alignment between the requirements and SVM targets.
- Lead transformational change through category strategies to include demand management, specification review, and “grouping” of similar goods and/or services using catalogue management techniques
- Ensure that the Category Management is aligned with corporate Strategies, in cooperation with business planning and strategy and delivers results to the bottom line.
- Ensures that market intelligence is updated regularly
- Monitors and reports all strategic savings on a monthly basis to the Head of Strategic Procurement
- Continuously reviews category management information to identify “new opportunities” to minimize any potential savings gap.
- Provide expertise, leadership and support to the organizations to drive overall productivity program, promoting best practice sharing, benchmarking, market intelligence, etc.
- Actively participate and contribute to the development of procurement as a value adding function within the organization
Requirements: - 8 - 10 years' demonstrable sourcing category management experience, including writing and executing sourcing category strategies
- UAE Nationals Only
