Contracts & Commodity Management Manager | alfanar Electric

Job Purpose

This position exists to ensure terms of the contracting and support commodity management activities within the procurement departments. Develop, and monitor contracting strategies and commodity sourcing initiatives . Meet the organization's quality standards. Manage risks and identify opportunities to advance the department's objectives.

Key Accountability Areas

Process Development: 
Develop and implement contract management processes, procedures, and templates.
Contract Oversight:
Ensuring contracts are in compliance to regulatory requirements, industry standards, and alfanar requirements.
Supplier Evaluation and Selection: 
Support identifying, evaluating, and selection of capable suppliers. 
Contract Management: 
Support negotiating, drafting, implementing, and managing of contracts.
Market Analysis: 
Support commodity management in continuously monitoring market trends and dynamics, utilizing insights to inform sourcing decisions and supply risk management.
Respective Expenses Analysis: 
Support and monitoring AES historical and forecast spend, utilizing insights to inform sourcing decisions and supply risk management.
Risk Assessment: 
Support analyzing potential supply risks related to commodity sourcing, pricing volatility, supply chain disruptions, and implementing mitigation strategies.
Commodity Strategy Development: 
Support the development and implementation of commodity procurement strategies in accordance with AES business needs and requirements.
Performance Monitoring:
Support commodity management monitoring, tracking and reporting on AES and supplier performance, identifying opportunities for improvement or corrective actions.
Continuous Improvement: 
Support commodity management with collaboration with suppliers and business area R&D, operation and procurement to continuously identify and implement opportunities for improvements i.e. design, inventory, quality, cost, etc.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies