Regional Procurement Sr Analyst Direct Materials
MBRF
Date: 2 hours ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time
How about building your career at one of the world’s largest food companies?
Come work at MBRF, a company present in the lives of thousands of families around the world. From the simplest moments to the most special ones, we nourish life through quality, innovation, and the people who make everything happen.
What will you be doing at MBRF?
Apply now and be part of MBRF!
Come work at MBRF, a company present in the lives of thousands of families around the world. From the simplest moments to the most special ones, we nourish life through quality, innovation, and the people who make everything happen.
What will you be doing at MBRF?
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for Direct Materials categories across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, ensuring cost competitiveness, supply continuity, and supplier performance.
- Lead strategic sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, and contract management activities based on market intelligence, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and business requirements.
- Drive value engineering and cost optimization projects in partnership with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Finance teams.
- Support the management of an annual spend portfolio of approximately USD 60 million across ingredients and packaging categories.
- Monitor commodity markets, logistics trends, geopolitical developments, and currency movements to identify risks and opportunities and recommend sourcing actions.
- Lead supplier scouting, qualification, onboarding, and implementation initiatives to strengthen competitiveness and supply resilience.
- Manage supplier performance through scorecards, development plans, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support category budgeting, savings delivery, cost forecasting, should-cost modelling, and working capital improvement initiatives.
- Identify and mitigate commercial, operational, and supply risks while maintaining contingency plans for critical materials.
- Collaborate closely with R&D, Quality, Operations, Planning, Finance, Legal, Logistics, and external suppliers to ensure successful project delivery and uninterrupted operations.
- Manage procurement activities through SAP and Ariba while ensuring compliance with company policies and governance standards.
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Economics, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, or Supply Chain, preferably within Direct Materials and manufacturing environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading category strategies, supplier negotiations, supplier development, and cross-functional projects.
- Strong understanding of category management, strategic sourcing, supplier performance management, and contract management.
- Experience in budgeting, price forecasting, savings delivery, working capital initiatives, and procurement analytics.
- Knowledge of SAP, Ariba, procurement systems, and sourcing processes.
- Understanding of Incoterms, international freight, commercial documentation, and landed cost analysis.
- Professional certifications in Procurement or Supply Chain Management are considered an advantage.
- Fluent in English; Arabic is considered an advantage.
- Strong negotiation and influencing capabilities.
- Excellent commercial and financial acumen.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Results-oriented mindset with a focus on delivering value and continuous improvement.
- Strong project management and execution capabilities.
- High level of ownership, resilience, and risk awareness.
- Effective communication and presentation skills in multicultural environments.
- Being part of a global, collaborative and dynamic working environment.
- Strong corporate culture with commitments to customers, employees and the communities we serve.
- Vertical, horizontal and cross-functional growth opportunities.
- Exposure to regional procurement projects and strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Apply now and be part of MBRF!
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