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Senior Procurement Manager Jobs in Amman, Jordan at UCC Holding
Title: Senior Procurement Manager
Company: UCC Holding
Location: Amman, Jordan
Job Summary:
The Senior Procurement Manager leads the strategic planning and execution of procurement activities for the organization. They develop and implement procurement strategies, manage supplier relationships, negotiate high-value contracts, and oversee purchasing processes to ensure cost-effectiveness and quality. The role involves optimizing procurement operations, managing budgets, ensuring compliance with regulations, and analyzing market trends to support the organization’s overall objectives and improve supply chain efficiency.
Location: Amman – Jordan
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensure utilizing all economies scale and best practices to win local battles.
- Define and communicate the supply strategy and its implications, to inform and align the respective stakeholders.
- Interact on an executive/managerial level within and outside the business to ensure cross alignment in the spirit of long term partnership.
- Lead the delivery of the savings and operating cash flow programme in his/her Categories, Cluster and/or Business Unit.
- Make timely decisions, balancing analysis with decisiveness.
- Develop and make use of competitive insights to shape strategies that counter competitive threats.
- Effectively engage in maintaining all external networks, and continuously builds alliances that will enhance Business’ competitive advantage.
- Remove organizational barriers to delivering exceptional internal and/or external customer service.
- Support the implementation of HSE initiatives, participate in safety awareness activities, and contribute to incident reporting and resolution in alignment with company and IMS policies
- Responsible to manage and optimize the financial and budgetary requirements as required.
- Identify metrics, tools and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies.
- Evaluate the challenges faced by the business and take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
- Drive continuous improvement, work simplification and the elimination of non-value-added work.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
- Minimum of 12 years of total job experience, with at least 6 years of on-the-job experience
- Proven track record in managing procurement teams with significant spend responsibility and handling multi-location teams.
- Experience in the Power, Energy, Combined Cycle Powerplants, or Solar industry is required.
- Profound knowledge of best-in-class purchasing capabilities, risk management, and market dynamics.
- Proficiency in using ERP systems, preferably SAP.
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