Role Description
A Procurement Director leads procurement strategy, supplier management, purchasing activities, contract negotiations, cost optimization, and sourcing operations while ensuring efficient procurement processes, strong supplier relationships, risk management, and compliance with company policies.
Key Responsibilities
- * Develop and implement procurement strategies, policies, procedures, and sourcing frameworks.
- Lead strategic sourcing, purchasing, supplier management, and procurement operations.
- Manage strategic supplier relationships, contracts, negotiations, and commercial agreements.
- Identify, evaluate, qualify, and develop reliable suppliers and service providers.
- Lead tendering, quotation, bidding, sourcing, and competitive procurement processes.
- Negotiate pricing, payment terms, contracts, service levels, and commercial conditions.
- Monitor procurement costs, budgets, savings, spending, and overall purchasing performance.
- Develop and implement cost reduction, supplier optimization, and procurement efficiency initiatives.
- Coordinate with finance, operations, logistics, warehouse, project, legal, and other departments.
- Ensure timely procurement of materials, equipment, products, services, and operational requirements.
- Monitor purchase orders, deliveries, supplier performance, quality standards, and contractual obligations.
- Establish supplier performance evaluation systems, procurement KPIs, and performance improvement plans.
- Identify procurement, supply chain, supplier, contractual, and commercial risks and implement mitigation measures.
- Ensure compliance with procurement policies, internal controls, contractual requirements, and applicable regulations.
- Develop procurement budgets, forecasts, reports, dashboards, and management updates.
- Monitor market prices, supplier markets, industry trends, and sourcing opportunities.
- Develop and maintain procurement policies, approval procedures, documentation, and governance frameworks.
- Lead procurement audits, supplier reviews, contract reviews, and compliance assessments.
- Manage relationships with strategic suppliers, contractors, consultants, and external procurement partners.
- Lead, manage, coach, and develop procurement teams to achieve operational and strategic objectives.
- Drive digital procurement, process automation, ERP integration, data analysis, and procurement technology adoption.
- Support business continuity, supply security, inventory planning, and supplier risk management.
- Drive continuous improvement, cost savings, process standardization, supplier performance, and procurement excellence.
Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Logistics, Operations Management, or a related field.
* Professional procurement or supply chain qualification such as CIPS, CPSM, CSCP, or equivalent is advantageous.
* Extensive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, purchasing, supply chain management, or commercial procurement.
* Strong experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, contract negotiation, tendering, and procurement operations.
* Good knowledge of procurement policies, procedures, commercial practices, and supplier governance.
* Experience managing procurement teams, budgets, supplier portfolios, contracts, and purchasing operations.
* Strong negotiation, analytical, financial, commercial, and problem-solving skills.
* Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building abilities.
* Experience with ERP, SAP, Oracle, procurement management, supply chain, or sourcing systems.
* Strong understanding of cost control, budgeting, forecasting, spend analysis, and procurement KPIs.
* Knowledge of supplier risk management, contract management, procurement compliance, and internal controls.
* Ability to manage multiple suppliers, projects, negotiations, priorities, and deadlines.
* Strong commercial awareness and strategic planning abilities.
* Bahrain/GCC procurement, sourcing, or supply chain experience is advantageous.*
* Professional, strategic, organized, analytical, accountable, and proactive approach.
