Category Manager

appropriate suppliers (Price, quality, conditions) in collaboration with requesting department.
• Ensures market intelligence is updated regularly and ensures that any changes are updated in the category strategy and appropriate steps are taken to mitigate any potential impact that this information may have on the organisation.
• Translating business requirements into detailed function specifications and if necessary, managing requests for changes to the specifications.
• Provides leadership and accountability, ensuring process compliance and delivering optimal sourcing benefits from category management.
• Define GEMS UAE & Qatar IT category strategy, setting performance objectives, and monitoring progress. Also actively engaging with and securing support from key local stakeholders (SSC/Schools).
• Actively participate and contribute to the development of procurement as a value-adding function within the GEMS UAE & Qatar organisation.
• Ensure that GEMS UAE & Qatar category management is aligned with GEMS UAE & Qatar corporate strategies in cooperation with business planning and strategy and delivers results to the bottom line.
• Produces annual Category management business plans, ensuring that full alignment between GEMS UAE & Qatar requirements and Procurement targets.
• Delivering end to end solutions for the procurement of managed categories
• Provide expertise, leadership, and support to GEMS MENASA organisations to drive overall productivity program, promoting best practice sharing, benchmarking, and market intelligence.