Corporate Procurement Manager – Construction

Sommerman Skinner Associates (SSA Limited)

Doha, Qatar

Ref: KP181-983

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Procurement Manager to join a leading International Main Contractor in their Head Office in Doha, Qatar.

This company has consistently won major projects across the region including airport terminals, rail, educational facilities and residential towers and now have a new requirement for a Head Office based Procurement Manager.

Role Overview

To oversee and manage the corporate procurement function across bidding process, vendor selection and final agreements to ensure that procurement process is progressing in a continuous cost-effective manner and in a professional per way thus achieving objectives for obtaining value for money services and goods.

Procurement
•Assist the Chief Commercial Officer in various procurement activities including implementation of approved purchasing and contracting policies and procedures, supplier sourcing, auditing, evaluating and documentation to facilitate timely procurement of products and services ensuring customer satisfaction in accord with defined cost and quality standards.
•Manage the process of developing RFPs and other procurement documentation and provide approvals as per financial authority.
•Evaluate potential suppliers for reliability and capability of becoming approved suppliers/vendors and build, negotiate and maintain relations with them in order to establish a good network of suppliers as business partners.
•Develop vendors’ selection criteria and standards to ensure that the optimum quality of services and resources are provided cost effectively.
•Research and monitor activities and trends in the relevant supply markets in order to ensure informed commercial decision making on supplier identification, selection and pricing.
•Conduct the activities involving the identification and establishment of local, regional and international supply sources in order to identify the most competent vendors.
•Build and maintain relationships with a network of vendors to ensure the services and products provided to the users meet the highest quality standards within allocated budget.
•Review the procurement requests received and propose solution from the procurement function to ensure that the orders are requested within the approved budget.
•Work closely with Contracts team and other stakeholders to ensure effective procurement process.
•Resolve complex purchasing problems escalated from buyers with an appreciation of the cost-effectiveness of solutions.

Requirements

The successful candidate will possess:
•Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or similar
•10 - 15 years of relevant experience, preferably with experience working within the GCC.
•The ability to lead, manage and control a multi-national workforce.
•A strong command of the English Language

On offer is a great tax free salary + benefits!

About the Company

SSA Ltd. (Sommerman Skinner Associates) find out the detail to allow you to make qualified judgments about your career and its progression. On the companies that we represent (over 2000 spread across a diverse spectrum of industry) we will be able to inform you of contracts pending, awarded, company growth, opportunity, relative reward and internal prospects. We believe that through spending time and effort front end through interviewing or individual dedication we can offer real advice that will be valued. Our founder is degree qualified with extensive exposure to industry and with a career also behind him in Recruitment Management. Our team is made up of qualified construction professionals. We specialise in both permanent and freelance opportunities to qualified construction professionals.

Disciplines covered include:

Site Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers, Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Managers, Planners, Safety, Purchasers, Estimators and Design Executive.

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