Procurement & Logistics Manager

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 the 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 manage and provide expert advice to customer departments during the 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 Group's 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.