Governance and Contracts Group Manager

Financial / Monetary:

Ensure support of financial planning and budget cycle with the necessary Level of Authorities metrics (LOA) and information related to procurement performance.

Customers / Clients (Internal):

• Build strong collaborative networks with internal business partners according to SALs and procedures.
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• Ensure change management, effective communication and stakeholders alignment are in place.
• Support developing the procurement strategy in alignment with business units.
• Develop, review, and align relevant procurement KPIs, SLAs, procedures, and policy across the organization.
• Ensure required specialist and infrastructure support are in place to enhance the quality of processes and performance of corporate procurement overall.
• Ensure risk mitigation and business continuity plan are considered in accordance to assigned spend of group categories.
• Convey periodic awareness of procurement roles to reflect a positive image of the added value.

Supplier / Vendors (External):

• Ensure registration, development and implementation of supplier’s relationship management program are followed in close alignment procurement managers.
• Ensure periodic assessment for key suppliers are conducted to promote performance. 

People / Employee (Cross Functional) 

• Manage and direct an expert team for governance and support within procurement.
• Balance out capacities and workload within own team.
• Support in Creating a healthy environment for team work, commitments and individual accountability within own team.
• Develop won team competencies and share best practices and knowledge and encourage feedback to enhance performance.
• Identify development areas and ensure own team attending assigned training courses.
• Acts as role model to his/her team and exercise/promote the Panda values.

Internal processes (Productivity/Quality/Compliance/reporting) 

• Define, implement and continuously improve the corporate procurement organization, processes, policies, procedures and system output to suite its customer needs.
• Ensure team compliance to corporate Procurement governance, regulations, policy and procedures and code of conduct for non-trade products and services related matter.
• Generate appropriate analytical reports on contracts status and inform stakeholders accordingly.
• Improve practices within own team in compliance with the department policies and procedures.
• Improve the degree of automation for applicable procurement processes and activities.
• Ensure sustainability and risk management principle measures are in place.  

• Ensure coordination with Audit, Legal, and/or any relevant functions in a timely manner.
• Develop periodic compliance report to check corporate procurement health and validity.
• Develop department templates such as contracts, supplier registration, supplier’s assessment, and proposals assessment matrix…etc.
• Develop archiving mechanism to allow for easy access to agreements and their details.

Education

• Bachelor degree in Business Administration and or Engineering

• Project Management certification is preferable

Experience, Skills & Competencies

• Minimum 5 years ’ experience in (Commercial/Contract Management/Sourcing )
• Professional communication in English and Arabic
• Knowledge of Retail business
• Analytical Skills
• Problem solving
• Contract Management
• Result Oriented
• Planning and Project management
• Self-Motivated
• Communication Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Customer Focus