21 Oct
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Abu Dhabi
Company Description:
Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders, and communities to grow through differentiation, agility, and innovation. We are looking for top talent, and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark at a top company in an exciting & dynamic industry.
Job Description:
JOB PURPOSE:
The Sourcing Manager is responsible for executing the strategy for aligning the demand/supply (i.e., procurement) of goods and services for specific sourcing category areas of responsibility.
The Sourcing Manager will deliver measurable and demonstrable value to the organization by using strategic sourcing, commercial and legal negotiations, contract enablement, and life-cycle management for specific sourcing category areas of responsibilities.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Ensures 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, ensuring process compliance and delivering optimal sourcing benefits from category management.
- Ensures best commercial value is negotiated and obtained for purchases. Specifically prepares requests for quotations, negotiates, selects, and identifies the most appropriate supplier (price, quality, conditions) in collaboration with the requesting department. Also negotiates contracts with the legal department.
- Works with the Category Manager and Head of Sourcing to define FAB Category strategy,
setting performance objectives and monitoring progress while engaging with and securing support from key local stakeholders (Finance, HRG, etc.).
- Collaborates with stakeholders to create, manage, and execute category plans, including:
- Developing annual category sourcing plans through detailed analysis of contracts, spend analysis, usage patterns, future demands, and benchmark data ensuring full alignment between FAB requirements and SVM targets.
- Leading transformational change through category strategies to include demand management, specification review, and “grouping” of similar goods and/or services using catalogue management techniques.
- Ensures that SVM Sourcing Management is aligned with FAB corporate strategies, in cooperation with business planning and strategy, and delivers results to the bottom line.
- Ensures that market intelligence is updated regularly and that any changes are reflected in the category strategy, taking appropriate steps to mitigate potential impacts to the organization.
- Champions best practices in category management across the organization through publishing case studies, working with stakeholders, conducting peer training workshops, and sharing good experiences.
- Represents sourcing in cross-functional teams for large initiatives to provide input on supplier engagement strategy and value creation.
- Creates a strategic plan for the sourcing function tied to the bank's overall corporate strategy with clear objectives, initiatives, and targets.
- Acts as the single point of contact for stakeholders (both internal and external)
to identify collaborative opportunities and align sourcing to the bank's wider strategy.
- Monitors and reports all strategic savings on a monthly basis to the Head of Sourcing.
- Continuously reviews category management information to identify “new opportunities” to minimize any potential savings gap.
- Provides expertise, leadership, and support to FAB organizations to drive overall productivity programs, promoting best practice sharing, benchmarking, market intelligence, etc.
- Actively participates and contributes to the development of SVM as a value-adding function within the FAB organization through empowered and experienced stakeholder management.
Qualifications:
- English; Arabic desirable.
- 5 years plus demonstrable sourcing category management experience,
including writing and executing sourcing category strategies.
- Demonstrable experience managing sourcing portfolios of $10-30m plus.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work with senior-level stakeholders to build trusted relationships.
- Ability to align with business strategy and engage Senior Management to reinforce the value of SVM.
- Can operate in a multi-matrix, performance-driven structure, able to lead cross-functional projects.
- Hands-on management style for projects and management of third parties, able to get involved as needed to offer support in group BU operations.
- Strong change agent, with the ability to make things happen, gain traction quickly, and motivated by successful delivery.
- Excellent communicator (verbal and written)
and strong negotiator who can effectively manage relationships that are widely dispersed both functionally and geographically.
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