Purchasing Manager

Do you want to transform materials for winning consumer experiences? Are you
intrigued by the idea to develop, evaluate, and negotiate the best sourcing
deals to create superlative consumer products?
Procter & Gamble Purchases is part of the Supply Chain function and has the
unique responsibility for developing and executing the sourcing strategies for
the Company's multi-billion-dollar goods and services needed to produce world
class consumer products. As a Purchases professional, your goal is to link the
most appropriate supplier capabilities with our business needs and contribute
to delivering the best shareholder return. Your everyday work will consist of
technical, analytical, and commercial skills to source for P&G. The demand for
Purchases expertise has never been higher, and the excitement and
opportunities at Procter & Gamble are boundless!

How Success Looks Like

Purchases people are P &G's lifeline to the world of suppliers, translating
the needs of our business in a way that enables, encourages, and invites our
supply base to partner with us in providing products and services of superior
quality and value that improve the lives of our consumers. We are looking for
people with the intellectual capacity, creative intelligence and strategic
insight to join our team.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate as a critical member of a cross-functional team in one of our Organizational Units (like Business or Market) to deliver a new service or technology to market.


• Determines insights from analytics and create sourcing strategies that sustainably improve the value of services that support our existing businesses both in the short and long term.


• Partnering with multi-functional organizations to improve our efficiency and effectiveness at reaching P &G consumers with super communication.


• Encourage innovation from our external business partners by building a relationship with P&G and describing what P&G is looking for.


• Working with internal customers and with the management of supplier companies to resolve financial or supply or quality issues that affect our business plans.


• Identify and interpret new and emerging customer requirements or market trends that will affect future sourcing strategies


• Drive cost savings projects to support our annual profit targets, and encourage supplier resourcing of upcoming initiatives and projects.


• Owns definition and execution of sourcing tactics, including stakeholder alignment and external communication


• Leads projects on defined intervention areas (savings, technical, cost structure, relationship, stewardship)

What We Offer

• At Procter and Gamble, we don 't just offer a job, we offer a career with varying assignments and endless development opportunities, so that we build our leaders of tomorrow.


• You will get a competitive compensation package, in line with your qualifications and experience.


• You will work on P&G-sized projects with access to world leading business partners and technologies from day one.


• You will join a friendly and encouraging atmosphere at work, and receive mentoring & coaching programs aimed at your future career development.
  
  Qualifications
  


• A Bachelor's Degree or higher education in Engineering, Business Administration, or any product supply related degree


• ‎1 - ‎3 years of working experience


• Experience in Sourcing & Negotiation (a plus)


• Strong Analytical Skills - Demonstrate ability to visualize, articulate concepts and solve problems, and apply logical thinking to analyze information and make/influence decisions.


• Ownership and Leadership - Ability to recognize strategic opportunities and be able to enroll others in disruptive thinking to get results. Ability to influence across functional boundaries to develop and deliver strategy and relationship management action plans to achieve outstanding results.


• Ability to Build and Sustain Relationships - Lead high-level interactions with internal business partners, suppliers and agencies, working effectively across functions, geographies and cultures.


• Excellent interpersonal skills


• English fluency, Arabic is a plus
  Job locations:
  Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Job Type: Full time Job categories:
  Purchases Req No: R000053249