Procurement Manager
Careem
- Riyadh
- Permanent
- Full-time
You will be responsible for supporting the global procurement team out of KSA in building a procurement centre of excellence across Careem, transforming a legacy ad hoc strategy and delivering hard savings across multi-functional spend portfolio, while enabling the business to stay agile while we rapidly scale.What you'll do
- Strategy, analysis, and reporting: Support in executing the global procurement strategy including spend analysis, industry benchmarks, and transformation objectives to deliver optimized purchasing and hard cost savings across functions in KSA.
- Sourcing and vendor management: Vendor sourcing, evaluation, competitive bidding and negotiation. Experience in vendor management systems to drive continuous improvements.
- Establishing strong relationships with internal business stakeholders; building a strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements, and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories.
- Transformation and systems: Integrate best-of-breed procurement system to automate procurement, bidding, and reducing operating costs in procurement
- Cost saving and controls: Support and drive adoption of tools and processes to increase turnaround times, eliminate non-compliant purchasing and reduce costs significantly while managing rapid growth
- Providing guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies; maintaining procurement ethics in accordance with global policies.
- Identify areas for improvement to continually drive performance and business results.
- 4+ years of experience in procurement from telco, FMCG, tech industry preferred
- KSA market & fast paced environment experience preferred
- Experience in strategic sourcing, including spend assessment, market analysis, understanding trends and defining forecast
- Procurement experience in professional services, marketing, and other general indirect services categories.
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to build relationships with internal/external stakeholders
- Excellent written, oral and presentation communication skills, Arabic and English are a must.
- Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
- Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
- Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
- Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year.
- Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.