Saudi Arabia Job Openings
Careem
Procurement Manager
Riyadh
October 22, 2024
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.
About the team
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.
What we’ll provide you
We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:
We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:
- 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. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
- Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.
We regret to inform you that this job opportunity is no longer available as it has expired
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