Posted
Ref: HP271-384
Job description / Role
Job Purpose
This position exists to ensure terms of the contracting and support commodity management activities within the procurement departments. Develop, and monitor contracting strategies and commodity sourcing initiatives . Meet the organization's quality standards. Manage risks and identify opportunities to advance the department's objectives.
Key Accountability Areas
Process Development:
- Develop and implement contract management processes, procedures, and templates.
Contract Oversight:
- Ensuring contracts are in compliance to regulatory requirements, industry standards, and alfanar requirements.
Supplier Evaluation and Selection:
- Support identifying, evaluating, and selection of capable suppliers.
Contract Management:
- Support negotiating, drafting, implementing, and managing of contracts.
Market Analysis:
- Support commodity management in continuously monitoring market trends and dynamics, utilizing insights to inform sourcing decisions and supply risk management.
Respective Expenses Analysis:
- Support and monitoring AES historical and forecast spend, utilizing insights to inform sourcing decisions and supply risk management.
Risk Assessment:
- Support analyzing potential supply risks related to commodity sourcing, pricing volatility, supply chain disruptions, and implementing mitigation strategies.
Commodity Strategy Development:
- Support the development and implementation of commodity procurement strategies in accordance with AES business needs and requirements.
Performance Monitoring:
- Support commodity management monitoring, tracking and reporting on AES and supplier performance, identifying opportunities for improvement or corrective actions.
Continuous Improvement:
- Support commodity management with collaboration with suppliers and business area R&D, operation and procurement to continuously identify and implement opportunities for improvements i.e. design, inventory, quality, cost, etc.
Role Accountability
HR Proficiency:
- Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
- Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
- Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
- Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
- Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.
Responsibility:
- Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
- Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
- Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.
Delivery:
- Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
- Making a Tangible Difference:
- Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.
Business Planning and Performance:
- Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
- Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
- Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
- Provide periodic work progress reports.
- Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.
Organizational Development:
- Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
- Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.
Business Process Improvements:
- Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
- Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
- Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.
Requirements
Quality:
- Quality is considered as alfanar's prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.
Adaptation:
- Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
Health, Safety and Environment:
- Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.
Academic Qualification
- Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or Any relevant field
Work Experience
- 10-15 years
Technical / Functional Competencies
- Supply Chain Best Practices
- Contract Management
- Contract Monitoring
- Supplier/Vendor Negotiations
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Procurement Procedures
- Purchasing Agreements
- Purchasing Benchmarking
About the Company
alfanar builds efficient energy systems & solutions of the present and sets up infrastructures for a brighter future.
We assist utility sector partners & customers in transforming cities into sustainable, habitable, and inclusive Smart Cities by harnessing renewable energy resources from wind, solar, and waste heat energy. Promoting the transition to a sustainable eco-conscious future.
Using world-class technologies, we develop unrivaled quality electrical solutions & products from our manufacturing facilities, to solve the world’s major energy challenges and make the world a better viable place.
Diligence, Efficiency, and Innovation are the key criteria our teams adopt in order to continuously provide effective solutions. We’re constantly equipping our teams with the tools they need to expand their horizons and reach higher grounds.
Being in an ever-changing environment with a crucial impact on their surroundings, our employees are nurtured to become keen thinkers with highly refined skills and a consistent outlook on the future, working together on finding the next big innovation.