Supplier Development Manager

Job description / Role

Job Purpose

Oversee and drive initiatives for developing and optimizing supplier relationships. Lead the team in enhancing supplier capabilities, ensuring quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Key Accountability Areas

Process Development:
- Responsible for the development and implementation of supplier development processes, procedures, and training requirements

Business Commodity Support:
- Collaborate with business Commodity Management and support the identification of potential suppliers for development in accordance with company standards, policies & procedures.

Supplier Evaluation & Qualification:
- Support business areas requirements for supplier qualification, evaluation and selection based on suppliers manufacturing capabilities and abilities to meet alfanar defined requirements.

Supplier Relationship Management:
- Support building and maintaining strong relationships with the supplier, to ensure supply alternative availability, continues improvements and cost optimization.

Supplier Development Initiatives:
- Support supplier development initiatives to enhance supplier capabilities and technological advancements.

Strategic Alignment:
- Ensure alignment with AES manufacturing objectives and procurement strategies to drive innovation and support the product enhancement projects.

Risk Management:
- Support the identification and Development of new suppliers, and or approve suppliers' new products to mitigate supply risks and ensure continues raw materials supply in accordance with AES production requirement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Collaborate with and support Business Areas / Factories, R&D, procurement, quality, SC Planning, and other departments to provide support and guidance for supplier development best practices.

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

Work Experience
- 6 to 10 Years

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.