Supply Chain Director

Job Title: Supply Chain Director

Location: Dubai

Salary: AED 25,000 - 30,000

Job Code: 097/001/529

Industry: Lighting / Building Technologies

Job Brief:

Our client is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Director to lead the complete commercial-supply infrastructure required to convert approved customer orders into available, correctly priced, quality-controlled, and deliverable products.

The role owns the integrated functions of pricing, procurement, supplier coordination, supplier quality, production and sourcing coordination, inventory planning, warehouse management, and logistics. The position serves as a critical link between Sales, Engineering & Product Design, Finance, Customer Services Operations, technical management, suppliers, manufacturing partners, warehouses, and regional operations.

The Supply Chain Director will be responsible for establishing a reliable end-to-end supply organization that supports business growth across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and export markets while maintaining disciplined procurement, accurate pricing, healthy inventory, strong supplier performance, efficient working capital, and reliable delivery.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead Procurement, Pricing, Warehouse, and Logistics functions and maintain appropriate supplier-quality oversight.
• Lead the Procurement Manager and supporting functions, including document control and market-specific procurement roles.
• Ensure pricing control and product master data governance support Sales, Estimation, and Engineering & Product Design.
• Maintain functional coordination with regional warehouse and supply activities, including Saudi Arabia.
• Ensure appropriate technical alignment with technical management where required by the approved operating process.
• Develop and execute the company's supply chain strategy in alignment with business plans and the Chief Executive Officer's objectives.
• Establish an integrated supply model covering procurement, pricing, sourcing, supplier management, production coordination, inventory, warehousing, logistics, and supplier quality.
• Develop supply plans capable of supporting business growth across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and export markets.
• Identify supply risks and establish mitigation and contingency plans.
• Own and maintain the company's Master List Price.
• Establish disciplined pricing-control processes and ensure approved product costs and selling-price references remain current and accurate.
• Coordinate with Sales and Estimation to ensure appropriate pricing information is available for quotation.
• Provide pricing input for standard products, bespoke products, new engineering solutions, integrated technology solutions, spare parts, and annual-maintenance-related material requirements.
• Ensure pricing reflects current supplier, manufacturing, freight, duty, logistics, and landed-cost information.
• Maintain disciplined product and Stock-Keeping-Unit (SKU) creation processes.
• Work closely with Engineering & Product Design when new solutions or products are introduced.
• Ensure new solutions receive product identification, pricing, SKU creation, supply information, supplier/manufacturer information, and required commercial data.
• Prevent uncontrolled duplication or inconsistent product coding and maintain accurate product master data.
• Receive approved backlog following required commercial and financial approvals and translate the backlog into supply requirements and fulfilment plans.
• Review required quantity, existing inventory, reserved inventory, previously issued purchase orders, open supplier orders, production status, and required delivery dates.
• Prioritize orders based on customer commitment, project urgency, supply constraints, and management direction.
• Ensure stock availability is checked before new procurement is initiated.
• Establish inventory-reservation controls against confirmed customer orders and prevent double allocation.
• Maintain visibility of free stock, reserved stock, in-transit inventory, committed inventory, slow-moving stock, and obsolete stock.
• Work with Customer Services Operations to enable immediate delivery where stock is already available.
• Lead the Procurement Manager and procurement team and establish procurement policies, authorization levels, and documentation standards.
• Ensure purchase requisitions are prepared accurately and approved appropriately.
• Ensure sourcing decisions follow approved supplier and commercial controls.
• For new or specific material requirements, ensure appropriate supplier inquiries and quotations are obtained.
• Negotiate price, payment terms, lead time, delivery conditions, warranty, quality obligations, and replacement terms.
• Track production milestones and escalate delays before they affect customer commitments.
• Manage sourcing activities involving overseas suppliers and production partners.
• Maintain awareness of manufacturing lead time, freight lead time, import requirements, documentation, duties, customs, country-of-origin considerations, and supplier quality.
• Ensure warehouse activities follow disciplined inventory-control procedures.
• Work with Sales on Master List Price, stock availability, lead times, quotation support, and order priorities.
• Work with Estimation on pricing, product data, new product information, and cost updates.
• Work with Engineering & Product Design on new solutions, product specifications, SKU creation, supplier/manufacturing feasibility, and technical clarification.
• Work with Finance on purchase-order approvals, supplier terms, payments, working capital, and goods-release controls.
• Work with Customer Services Operations on warehouse handover, delivery, logistics, project schedules, and installation requirements.
• Work with technical management on technical governance, production/supply approval, sourcing concerns, and supplier-quality escalation.
• Ensure procurement and supply-chain documentation is complete, accurate, and auditable.
• Establish document-control standards for purchase requisitions, supplier quotations, purchase orders, delivery notes, material receipt records, quality records, logistics documents, and supplier records.
• Ensure approved procedures are consistently followed across locations and teams.
• Balance product availability against inventory investment.
• Minimize unnecessary stock while protecting customer-delivery commitments.
• Monitor inventory value, ageing, slow-moving items, obsolete items, inventory turnover, and forecast demand.
• Work with Sales to understand expected demand and with Finance to manage working-capital exposure.
• Lead and develop procurement, pricing, warehouse, logistics, and quality personnel.
• Establish clear responsibilities, individual performance measures, and succession coverage.
• Identify and manage risks relating to supplier dependency, product availability, production delay, price volatility, quality, freight disruption, inventory shortages/excess, documentation, and regional supply continuity.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Management, Business Administration, or a closely related discipline.
• A technical degree combined with strong supply-chain and commercial experience is particularly suitable.
• Master's degree or Master of Business Administration (MBA) is preferred.
• Professional supply-chain or procurement certification is preferred.
• Training in strategic sourcing, inventory management, logistics, or supplier quality is preferred.
• Approximately 10 years of progressively responsible experience in supply chain, procurement, operations, sourcing, logistics, or related functions.
• Significant experience managing suppliers and procurement activities.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Experience working with project-based, technical, or engineered products.
• Lighting-industry experience is strongly preferred and considered a significant advantage.
• Candidates from architectural lighting, electrical equipment, building technologies, MEP systems, smart buildings, building automation, technical system integration, construction products, engineering equipment, and project-based manufacturing may qualify where their experience is directly relevant.
• Strong process discipline and proficiency with ERP, procurement, inventory, warehouse, supplier-management, pricing, and product-master-data systems.
• Willingness to travel across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, supplier/manufacturing locations, international sourcing locations, and export markets.
• Strong competencies in strategic supply-chain leadership, procurement and negotiation, pricing governance, supplier management, inventory optimization, logistics and warehousing, supplier quality, cost management, working-capital awareness, technical-product understanding, risk management, cross-functional leadership, process discipline, data analysis, team development, and executive communication.