Global Category Manager - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Talented International

Description

Reporting to VP Global Procurement they are now looking to hire a Global Category Manager in their Dubai offices in the UAE.

• Responsibility and accountability for a procurement spend totalling approximately: $6080m
• Full accountability and high autonomy in execution of role and significant influence across the regions
• Proactively engage and manage key senior stakeholders within the business in the General Services area
• Drive the review of the relevant expense that align to the main areas of indirect spend:
• Legal, HR, IT, Finance, Consultancies, Marketing and Sales, Travel and Entertainment
• Understand the nature of such expenditure with the objective of optimization and cost reduction by way of supply, demand, governance or compliance actions, expense and demand management
• Identify saving opportunities and initiate individual projects/initiatives at country/regional/global level
• Obtain endorsement and support for the category strategy with stakeholders to execute on key strategic procurement or other supply chain initiatives that will support efficiency cost reduction or risk mitigation
• Collaborate and support countries in their execution of initiatives aligned to the global category strategy
• Manage supplier risk to establish a stable supply chain that allows the Group to provide uninterrupted services
• Own and drive the overall global cost reduction and supply risk management for the Category
• Act as the cost challenger for the Group for the categories managed
• Commercially responsible and accountable for the category, leading crossfunctional teams
• Drive and manage target setting and monitor results for the category, and ensure that all ambitions and objectives are effectively cascaded and achieved at the regional and local levels
• Ensure that the category contributes to the HSSE ambition
• Ensure that the objectives of sustainable procurement are achieved in own category
• Drive the implementation and realization of supply efficiency, quality, and process improvements within the Group
• Ensure that the category team has a formal charter that governs, establishes measurement criteria, and creates clear roles and responsibilities, and ensure the team has formal project strategies that are integrated and in alignment with stakeholders.
• Engage and work with the stakeholders to produce a needs assessment that is aligned to their business plans, resulting on a pipeline of procurement activities
• Align stakeholders through focused change management programs
• Ensure the implementation and tracking of performance indicators and achieved results
• Provide regular reports and updates to stakeholders as required
• Consolidation and coordination of needs/data for global tenders
• Implements regular category workflow reviews to ensure all stakeholder requests are being owned. Any gaps to be escalated to line managers

• Graduate in Marketing/Supply Chain/Procurement or equivalent with 58 years of purchasing experience
• Indirect spend experience a must
• Experience in different geographies and working with different cultures
• Certification as a CPM, CPIM or CSCP a plus
• Proven performance in managing and developing an international team in a global or regional procurement function (or equivalent), with requisite drive and energy to ensure challenging benefits and capability of building an agenda is successfully delivered
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Multilingual skills (English included) would be preferred
• Technical credibility to challenge/influence internal stakeholders and strong understanding of the spend categories and cost drivers to challenge stakeholders and suppliers
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact in a cross functional environment with various departments, employee levels in the organization and with suppliers
• Resilient, determined and able to work under pressure and with ambiguities, conflicts and adversarial relationships
• Able to multitask and work independently in a fastpaced environment
• Proven ability to assess potential and risks associated with supplier and market changes, and integrate with category and sourcing strategies
• Proven ability in analysis and interpretation of data
• Proven ability to identify opportunities quickly, make sound judgments, establish, and implement solutions
• Must be able to work effectively in a team environment; understand and actively support the value of teamwork
• Consistently demonstrate attention to detail and strives to achieve high quality results
• Demonstrates ability to work against deadlines in supporting company goals
• Expert negotiation skills
• Experience in Supply Chain and Business Application Systems (Oracle ERP systems is a plus)
• Result oriented and able to influence change
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence effectively at all levels
• Ability to build and