Purchasing Section Manager

Job description / Role

Job purpose

Oversee and optimize the end-to-end supply chain processes, ensuring efficient procurement, production, and delivery of goods. Manage supplier relationships, compliance, and collaborate with various departments to meet purchasing needs while utilizing systems like SAP ERP for maximum effectiveness.

Key accountability areas

Strategic supplier management:
Oversee the strategic selection, qualification, and negotiation processes with suppliers. Negotiate, execute, and oversee contracts/orders within specified authorization limits. Conduct preparation and pre-negotiation activities for contracts/orders that exceed authorization limits. Identify and engage robust suppliers/logistics providers to establish a consolidated foundation for both current and future requirements.

Compliance and legal:
Maintain an up-to-date understanding of KSA customs and clearance policy, administrative regulations, and legal prerequisites pertinent to the procurement of goods. Review and approve the comparison sheet within designated authorization limits. Collaborate with the legal advisor to draft contracts in accordance with legal requirements.

Collaboration and coordination:
Engage in collaborative efforts with all relevant support functions to ensure the fulfillment of purchasing requirements. Effectively manage product deliveries in alignment with project activity schedules. Analyze the status report of purchase requests and purchase orders, taking necessary actions to resolve any identified issues. Investigate and address complaints related to supplies/delivered materials.

Market analysis and price monitoring:
Evaluate market conditions, pricing structures, delivery terms, and trends to ascertain current and future material availability.

SAP ERP expertise:
Offer expertise in leveraging the SAP ERP system to enhance the effectiveness of the supply chain team.

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 a 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 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 automation 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 use them fully, to spread its culture.

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 business management

Work experience

6 to 10 years

Technical / functional competencies

• Purchasing agreements
• Purchasing applications and tools
• Purchasing benchmarking
• Purchasing planning
• Purchasing procedures
• Purchasing reporting

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.