{"id":79970,"date":"2026-04-13T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/job\/senior-director-procurement-civil-construction-tax-free\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:28:26","slug":"senior-director-procurement-civil-construction-tax-free","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/job\/senior-director-procurement-civil-construction-tax-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Director Procurement (civil &#038; construction) Tax Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>411_3276850<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title :  <\/strong>Executive Director Contracting <\/p>\n<p><strong>Location :  <\/strong>London <\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct Reporting Relationship: <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Chief Operating Officer <\/p>\n<p>Directors of Contracting <\/p>\n<p>Manager of Strategic Sourcing <\/p>\n<p>Managers of Projects Procurement <\/p>\n<p><strong>Division: <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Procurement \/ COO Office <\/p>\n<h3>Role Purpose: <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop Project Contracting Strategic capabilities including upstream Contracting best practices in terms of capacity, quality, on time delivery and right diversification mix (local content). <\/li>\n<li>Lead the development and operationalize Strategic Sourcing for Contracting <\/li>\n<li>Establish a supplier relationship management approach that is long term beneficial to deliver the project <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Activities: <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Establish, lead and define the right vision for a highly performing Contracting Organization up to the size of 50 FTE and annual spend in excess of SAR 10 Billion. <\/li>\n<li>Strategize Contracting from a Sourcing perspective (upstream Contracting) <\/li>\n<li>Operationalize Contracting Best practices E2E to enable a smooth process. <\/li>\n<li>Lead complex RFPs, develop new process standards and ensure competitive and diverse bid slate development. <\/li>\n<li>Operationalize supplier evaluations and actively bring new Market entrants into the Kingdom. <\/li>\n<li>Lead RFP process with third parties, detailing procedures, time for submission and bids evaluation criteria <\/li>\n<li>Renew and establish a pre-qualification process resulting in a dynamic supplier database <\/li>\n<li>Collaborate with Legal department in the draft of RFPs and awarding contracts and standardize contract management as per Industry best practice <\/li>\n<li>Develop and implement a Source to Pay solution that brings management of Work and Service Orders at ease. 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If however, you object to us holding your data on file, please acknowledge via email by return.* <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstaff Personnel Consultants<br \/>85\/86 Grafton Street<br \/>Dublin 2<br \/>Ireland <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> #J-18808-Ljbffr<\/p>\n<p>2026-03-27 08:38:12<\/p>","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","job_listing_type":[68],"job_listing_category":[1347],"job_listing_location":[720],"job_listing_tag":[],"class_list":["post-79970","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","hentry","job_listing_type-full-time","job_listing_category-management-operations","job_listing_location-united-arab-emirates"],"metas":{"_job_featured_image":"","_job_featured":"","_job_filled":"","_job_urgent":"","_job_category":{"1347":"Management &amp; Operations"},"_job_type":{"68":"Full Time"},"_job_tag":[],"_job_expiry_date":"2026-06-18","_job_gender":"","_job_apply_type":"external","_job_phone":"","_job_apply_url":"https:\/\/en-ae.whatjobs.com\/coopob__cpl___411_3276850__3583?utm_source=3583&utm_medium=feed&keyword=Senior-Director-Procurement&location=-United-Arab-Emirates","_job_apply_email":"","_job_salary_type":"","_job_salary":"","_job_experience":"","_job_career_level":"","_job_qualification":"","_job_video_url":"","_job_photos":"","_job_application_deadline_date":"2026-06-14","_job_address":"","_job_location":{"720":"United Arab Emirates"},"_job_map_location":{"address":"","latitude":"","longitude":""},"_job_logo":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-job-board-pro-uploads\/_employer_featured_image\/2025\/11\/ICON-Here-Careers-Logo-150-150x150.png","_job_employer_name":"HR","_job_employer_url":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/employer\/hr\/"},"cmb2":{"_job_careerjet_job_fields":{"_job_careerjet_detail_url":"","_job_careerjet_company_name":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing\/79970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_type?post=79970"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_category?post=79970"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_location?post=79970"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_tag?post=79970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}