Aldar Education is currently seeking an outstanding Associate Director Procurement to provide senior procurement leadership for assigned Aldar Education portfolios ensuring requirements are planned sourced contracted and delivered in line with procurement policy Delegation of Authority approved budgets agreed SLAs and business priorities.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar Education family of schools and play a key role in shaping the technology strategy and service delivery across some of Abu Dhabi s leading educational institutions.
As the leading education group in Abu Dhabi Aldar Education provides inclusive and innovative learning that inspires and empowers communities. We offer a range of educational brands for learners from nursery through to adult education with the broadest choice of curricula across the largest number of locations in Abu Dhabi. Working collaboratively our education network aims to empower the next generation to shape our future while directly supporting the educational priorities of the Abu Dhabi Government.
Our work is guided by the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 which seeks to build a sustainable knowledge-based economy through premium education.
The Associate Director Procurement role combines portfolio delivery governance stakeholder partnering and commercial management across schools HQ departments and cross-functional programmes. It supports procurement transformation through structured procurement planning framework agreements standardised specifications data-led reporting supplier performance management audit action follow-up and continuous improvement.
The Associate Director is expected to act as a senior escalation point coach assigned team members challenge non-compliant or single-source approaches where appropriate and help translate business needs into compliant value-driven procurement outcomes.
Qualifications and Experience- Bachelor's Degree in related field and/or professional training or qualification in related field
- Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) preferred
- Recognized Procurement Qualification and/or professional subscription (e.g.CIPS) desirable
- A minimum of 10 years experience in procurement within the region
- Having education procurement experience is preferable
- Excellent communication skills are essential
- Fluent English communication skills, written and oral, Arabic is an added value
- Great knowledge of ERP system (Oracle Fusions)
- Excellent stakeholder Management skills
- Excellent usage of MS Office (PP, Excel)
- Organized with great governance
- Ability to create dashboards
- Proven track record of developing advanced procurement processes and methods
- Attention to detail with diligent follow up, and able to execute in a timely manner
- Skilled in multi tasking and handling pressure
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Pro-active
- Agile
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