Senior Manager - Technology Sourcing

The Senior Manager is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies for a set of tech categories across ENBD Group locations. This role ensures category-level delivery of service to businesses, manage spend and cost savings in line with strategies set by the Tech Sourcing Head. It plays a pivotal role in translating sourcing strategies into actionable plans within assigned categories across Group Locations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop And Implement Sourcing Strategies for Multi Categories across Group Locations: Develop, champion and ensure successful implementation of plans and strategies to support all the assigned categories. Lead all the strategies and ensure operational excellence for all the assigned categories in line with sourcing guidelines and policy. Use leading sourcing tools to develop and implement Strategic Sourcing, including: supplier assessment, supplier financial analysis, RFI, RFQ & RFP based on certain threshold, Strategy Advisory, Scope Advisory, etc.

• Drive best category performance across assigned categories

• Deliver sustainable competitive advantage for ENBD in the areas of Cost, Innovation, Quality and supplier relationship management while ensuring flawless Service and Supply Security

• Lead categories transformation and enhancement through economical supply of goods and services

• Manage Direct Reports: Manage a team of sourcing managers by setting targets and objectives to ensure business requirements and objectives are managed. Facilitate coordination and alignment of Sourcing Teams across Group Locations

• Business Process And Information Management: Drive annual cost savings, supplier and service improvement in each spend category across Group Locations. Work with the sourcing teams across Group Locations to streamline and improve sourcing processes. Gain a deep understanding of the categories under management to enable discussions around the total cost of ownership and lead commodity-based discussions with senior stakeholders

• Measure And Track Performance Within Each Spend Category And Define Budgetary Impact: Establish KPIs for each spend category. Define the data collection process; forecast budgetary impact and track actual savings

• Monitor Category Strategy Implementation And Contract Compliance: Actively monitor the performance of contracts under management of assigned categories to ensure savings identified are meet, and business comply with the contracts in place.

• Cross Functional Team Management: Meet stakeholders weekly / monthly to collaborate and discuss all the activities, including ensuring alignment of sourcing team across Group Locations

• Supplier Relationship Management: Manage and develop key supplier relationships for the assigned portfolio

• Drive Best Practices For Sourcing Categories: Ensure adoption of best practices and regular exchange of knowledge across Intl

• Uphold Internal And External Policies, Regulations And Laws: Maintain a working knowledge of applicable laws across International

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree

• MCIPS, CIPS 3 / 4 level

• Multi-year track record in delivering cost savings and strong supplier performance

• Specific commodity experience

• 7 year+ Strategic sourcing/ category management

• Technical skills: problem-solving and analytical skills, construct/execute multiple complex analyses simultaneously, market research & intelligence, demand management, risk management

• Managerial skills: project management, negotiating skills, change management, stakeholder management, planning categories

There’s never been a better time to join Emirates NBD.

We’re one of the region’s most recognizable brands. We’re banking innovation leaders. We’re growing across both the UAE and our global offices. We offer a huge range of professional development opportunities to accelerate your career. It also goes without saying that we provide extremely competitive rewards, benefits and perks too, like our flexible work policy so you can work from home whenever it suits. At ENBD, we encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for positions that match their skills and capabilities.