Key Responsibilities:
• Working closely with the internal stakeholders and suppliers to identify and deliver a pipeline of Value Improvement opportunities with a particular focus on IT, Print and Marketing services
• Taking responsibility for a wide range of other goods and services as varied as stationery to music licenses, and consultancy
• Helping to define and implement the policy that will govern the purchase of these services and deliver compliance with this
• Using our Source to Contract system, work effectively to deliver the opportunities through competitive tendering
• Negotiating the terms and conditions of the contracts that will formalise the supplier arrangements ensuring the inclusion of appropriate Service Level Agreements that will mitigate risk and enable the company to benefit from optimum Supplier support and then to monitor compliance against these.
• Fostering and developing excellent supplier relationships for the contracts that are managed by the team
• Keeping up-to-date on the categories covered such that the internal stakeholders are able to understand alternative supply options and improvement opportunities
• Providing challenge to specifications and ways of working to get best value solutions which may involve process change
• Championing the adoption of the Source to Contract system and the P2P process across the business to drive user uptake
Key Requirements:
• A relevant background in, or have been responsible for, sourcing activities within the above categories
• Strong influencing skills
• Good interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills
• Excellent negotiation capability
• Quick and clear logical thinker
• Self-motivated with drive and determination
• Excellent Supplier Relationship Management skills
• Ability to cope with multiple priorities and learn new categories very fast Should be available in UAE. Candidate outside UAE should not apply. Salary 25,000 AED +benefits.
It is observed that some people start their job from lower ranks and remain in lower ranks for the long period of time while others start their job in lower ranks and use that low rank as their launching pad and start flying in a very short time. Actually the people who got rapid promotion have some capabilities and one could develop those capabilities in him so that he could get the rapid promotion in the job. Some of these capabilities are mentioned here under:
Continuously improve the qualification: It is the best tool which could come to help you to progress in your rank to have the higher qualifications. No doubt learning with earning is not an easy job. But once you get determined than you could get the task done in desired way.
Keenly observe the field and try to understand the technical tasks: It is observed that those people rise in their rank that could handle the technical aspects of their job in right way. Therefore, it is suggested to keep those secrets of job with you as soon as possible.
Try to show your worth to higher authorities: After getting good qualification and knowing the technical aspects of your job, it is good idea to give a good presentation to higher authorities so that you could get entered your name in the good book of higher authorities. In this way you could get the big boost in the promotion.