Procurement & Logistics Manager

Job Purpose: At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai; and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’.

About the role

The Procurement & Logistics Manager will provide an account management service to the nominated business areas at Emirates Group, ensuring that best practice procurement techniques are adopted to achieve lowest cost of ownership and that agreed service levels are achieved.

What you will do

• Provide support to the Vice President, Procurement & Logistics (Services) and Manager Procurement & Logistics, by developing and implementing strategies to deliver the lowest total cost of ownership for acquisition of capital, goods, or service items.
• Ownership of authorising supply orders and contracts for values up to AED 100k. Responsible for analysing and preparing contract values that exceed this financial limit, reports & makes recommendations for review & approval at Manager P&L, VP & SVP level.
• 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.
• Develop tender documents and lead cross-functional teams to produce detailed specifications (where appropriate, in conjunction with Legal and other departments) to subsequently issue tender to obtain equal and competitive quotations.
• Account manages, provide expert advice to customer departments during product design phase in order to optimise value for money to the Emirates Group.
• Negotiate contract prices and terms and conditions where business impact/value/risk is deemed high, to ensure that Emirates Groups best contractual and commercial position is attained. Ensure that supply and commercial risk is minimised.
• Partner with Customer Departments at all times to ensure that the Customer Department is fully involved in the procurement process. Develop successful partnerships with SVP, VP & Grade 10 levels to ensure 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.

Qualifications & Experience: This job might be for you if you have:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Procurement/Contract Management or a related subject
• 10+ years’ experience of Procurement/Contact Management with IT / Technology category sourcing
• 10+ years of experience in commercial and contract negotiation’s role, procurement techniques, ideally with financial acumen within the P&L department of a large organization or for an independent IT solutions supplier.
• Qualifications with MCIPS is required
• Knowledge of the aviation industry, project management and analytical skills is preferable.
• Knowledge of IT products, an understanding of IT organization structures and their interrelationships in delivering service to customers.
• Awareness of prevalent IT product and service methodologies and their basis/financial implications.
• Ability and experience in managing end to end sourcing process for technologies include Cloud, Quantum, Automation, Robotics, Analytics, Data Centres, Data Science, Cyber Security and more. It smooths the journey to complete the tasks or achieve the goals and optimize the ROI.
• In-depth knowledge of preparing and reviewing IT contracts, Price Models, negotiating key commercial and contractual terms.
• Strategic management skill with in-depth knowledge of the market and offer insights to organisation like market size, projected growth, competitors, industry trend etc.
• Ability to systematically analyse complex problems, draw relevant conclusions and implement appropriate solutions.
• Strong verbal and written skills, and ability to convey complex information in a way that others can readily follow.
• Good negotiating, persuasive and interpersonal skills, both in one-on-one and group situations. Ability to apply creative thinking to solve problems.