Our Procurement & Logistics group focuses on aircraft services as well as general services. They negotiate and manage contracts with third-party suppliers and find ways to mitigate costs. Our staff are dedicated professionals who enjoy the challenge of increasing productivity, boosting quality, and improving processes!
About the role:
To provide an account management service to the nominated business units ensuring that best practice procurement techniques are adopted to achieve lowest cost of ownership and that agreed service levels are achieved.
Job Outline:
- Provide support to the Vice President, Procurement & Logistics (Services) and/or Manager Procurement & Logistics, by developing and implementing strategies to deliver the lowest total cost of ownership for acquisition of capital, goods or service items.
- Independently decide on and authorise supply orders and contracts for values upto AED 100,000. Where contract values exceed this financial limit, analyse and prepare reports & recommendations for review & approval at Manager P&L, VP & SVP level, as necessary.
- Manage and provide guidance to a team of subject matter experts to provide a full service procurement function within agreed service levels to Customer Departments.
- Ensure that the sourcing, pre-qualification and evaluation of suppliers is carried out as per company standards/policies to assess what services and products they are qualified to provide thereby ensuring that the correct products and services are available
- Ensure that the tender documents are developed and lead cross-functional teams to produce detailed specifications (where appropriate, in conjunction with Legal and other departments) and to subsequently issue for tender to obtain equal and competitive quotations.
- As an account manager, provide expert advice to customer departments during product design phase in order to optimise value for money to the Group.
- Negotiate contract prices and terms and conditions where business impact/value/risk is deemed high, to ensure that the Companys best contractual and commercial position is attained. Ensure that supply and commercial risk is minimised.
- Liaise & communicate closely with Customer Departments at all times to ensure that the Customer Department is fully involved in the procurement process. The successful development with these relationships at SVP, VP & Managerial level is crucial to ensure efficient and effective supplier selection.
- Proactively search for and identify opportunities for cost reduction wherever possible. Benchmark the performance of their sections against available statistics/indicators and identify areas for improvement. This will include knowledge of technical advances, market developments and other relevant changes in the supply market.
- Critically evaluate reports generated by reporting staff to assess performance of their respective sections and take corrective action where required.
