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Ref: HP698-8606
Job description / Role
Al-Futtaim Enterprise IT provides support to the Al-Futtaim Group across all geographies. It manages the IT application and infrastructure across various lines of business including Automotive, Retail, Real Estate and Financial Services. The core components of EIT are Business Application Management, Infrastructure & Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Service Management, Information Security, IT Procurement and IT Governance.
Job Purpose:
To centralize and support IT procurement activities through developing strategic sourcing plan to maximize the group savings as well as carry out the process mapping for purchasing / acquisitions of products / services as per category.
Typical Responsibilities:
* Carry out process mapping for purchases / acquisitions of goods / Services as per category through developing procurement policy.
* Ensuring compliance with group procurement policy.
* Identifying needs and potential suppliers, soliciting bids, reviewing bids and selecting suppliers, negotiating and awarding contracts, accepting delivery of products.
* Developing existing team members from PO processing to Strategic Procurement sourcing.
* Supporting finance by tracking category-wise spend against budget
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge: Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.
Minimum Experience: Typically has 7 to 10 years of business experience including managing team(s) responsible for asset management, procurement, finance, vendor relationship management, contract negotiation, contract administration, project or asset management in a technology environment. Proven history of accomplishments.
Job-Specific Skills: The candidate must have strong negotiation skills, Leadership skills, Time management skills, computer skills and team motivation skills.
Behavioural Competencies : Strong interpersonal skills, Team player, Customer expectation management
About the Company
Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.
The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.
The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.