Procurement And Logistics Manager - Dubai

Dubai

The Emirates Group is a highly profitable business with a turnover of approximately US$ 9 billion and over 32,000 employees. The Group comprises of Dnata, the successful Airport Ground Services and Travel Industry division, and Emirates, the Group's rapidly expanding and award winning international Airline. Emirates global network now sees it flying to over 90 destinations in 60 countries, and with aircraft orders worth over $US 35 billion identified, Emirates fleet will grow to over 200 wide-bodied jets by 2013, with many more destinations coming on line. With the Group now hiring over 5,000 new staff every year, essential to business success will be the ongoing employment of high quality people to join our multi-cultural team of over 135 nationalities. Dubai, a tourism centre and modern cosmopolitan city with high standards of healthcare, education and leisure pursuits for residents offers one of the most desirable lifestyle locations in the world. In addition to lifestyle and tax free salary benefits, the Emirates Group also offers professional development opportunities to help employees develop new skills and grow their careers successfully. These are both internal through e-Learning and leadership development courses and external through relationships with tertiary institutions globally, including Executive education programmes at world class Business Schools and Universities. The Position: 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 Accountabilities ? 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 Company?s' 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 & Grade 10 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. Experience and Qualifications: Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) 8+ years practical experience within Procurement/Contract management, ideally with an Airline or other Blue Chip organisation at middle management level. The successful candidate will be CIPS qualified. The job holder must have a proven track record of analytical decision-making, with strong commercial acumen. The successful candidate will have strong financial acumen (but need not have worked in the Finance Department). He/she must have strong organisational and negotiation skills The job holder will often be required to influence the decision making process of line departments. To do so effectively, the job holder must have strong interpersonal skills, experience and confidence to adequately deal with senior personnel Salary & Benefits:We offer an attractive tax-free salary, paid in Dirhams, the local currency of the UAE. The Dirham is linked to the Special Drawing Right of the International Monetary Fund and it has been held constant against the US dollar since the end of 1980 at a mid-rate of approximately US$1="Dh3.66." Besides generous travel benefits normally associated with an airline, this managerial role also has excellent leave and health care packages, accommodation, power and water paid for, along with transport benefits, life insurance and other employee benefits making the role attractive to high performers. By viewing the 'Dubai Lifestyle' section in the careers website you can also consider the many benefits of Dubai as a location to live and work in To Apply:To express your interest in the above vacancy please apply on-line by clicking below, and complete our application form. We will then consider your application and contact you should we wish to shortlist you for an interview. Should you not receive an invitation for an interview within 5 weeks please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful. We will retain your details for 12 months unless advised otherwise and re-consider you for future opportunities as they arise. Please also note that if you are not shortlisted you can also update your application at anytime and apply for other opportunities. Thank you for your interest in a career with the Emirates Group. Job Reference No : PALM/VH/9013 Closing Date : 28-Nov-2007
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