ASMO is a groundbreaking joint venture between DHL and Saudi Aramco. Inheriting DHL's logistics excellence and Saudi Aramco's extensive supply chain ecosystem, we are here to set a new benchmark and redefine the procurement and supply chain landscape, enabling growth.
ASMO aims to be operational in 2025 and provide reliable end-to-end integrated procurement and supply chain services for companies across the industrial, energy, chemical, and petrochemical sectors. Our focus customers in the short term will be Saudi Aramco and its Affiliates. In the long term, all the industrial sectors within Saudi Arabia aim to reach the MENA region.
Objective
This role holder is responsible for managing and monitoring the performance of the suppliers for the purpose of identifying areas of potential improvement, minimizing risks by developing corrective plans, and ensuring continuous enhancement of procurement operations. The role holder is also responsible for pre-qualifications, contracting, and registration of the vendors/contractors with ASMO.
General Responsibilities
- Guide procurement performance management by leading market intelligence/benchmarking efforts, supplier relationship management process and functional business support.
- Ensure coordination with clusters: Drilling, Chemicals, Electricals/Instrumentation/IT, Machinery & Static Equipment, and Cluster HSSE/Facilities/Others to efficiently and effectively define operational requirements.
- Ensures continuous improvement in procurement service delivery and support policies, processes and procedures by assessing effectiveness of procurement process.
- Implement 6 sigma and lean methodology in procurement and supply chain operations.
- Benchmark procurement processes to market and develops and implements a procurement market research framework in accordance with strategic sourcing functions.
- Implement performance management process and leads cascading of KPIs in collaboration with Finance function.
- Ensure linking contractual incentives as well as penalties to vendor performance indicators and support in monitoring adherence to agreed performance indicators.
- Develop measures and reports on metrics to track procurement performance and measure value creation and efficiency.
- Ensure support for strategic sourcing projects and defines guidelines for buyers to avoid exchanges rate issues, in coordination with Treasury department.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in degree in Business Administration or Economics or Risk Management or equivalent is required from a recognized and accredited university is required.
- Master's degree in business administration or Economics or Risk Management or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is preferred.
- Professional certification in Six Sigma/Lean Management.
- Recognized Supply Chain certifications such as Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) is preferred.
- Demonstrated proficiency in oral and written English.
- 9 years experience in similar or related field, out of which 4 years at a managerial / leading position.
- Deadline is one month from posting.
