Dubai Holding Group Services:
Group Services is Dubai Holding’s shared business services arm that provides consolidated business solutions in procurement, finance and human capital across the Group. With a commitment to talent, digital innovation and continuous improvement, it delivers best-in-class service, enhancing the Group's overall performance.
Group Services is dedicated to transforming operations, elevating service quality and cultivating specialised teams focused on excellence and innovation.
Group Services comprises of:
Group Services Procurement delivers end-to-end value through strategic sourcing, supplier management, and contracting. Enabled by advanced technology, streamlined processes, strong governance, and data-driven insights, it ensures responsible sourcing, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.
Group Services Finance manages financial transactions, budgeting, and reporting to ensure strong fiscal health and cash flow. It empowers informed decision-making through insights that drive sustainable growth and profitability.
Group Services Human Capital manages the full employee lifecycle, ensuring a smooth journey from recruitment to offboarding while fostering a culture that values and supports people—the Group’s greatest asset.
Empowering talent for the future:
Group Services’ greatest strength lies in its people; their collective capabilities serve as the driving force of the company. Dedicated to creating a vibrant talent hub where challenging the norm leads to innovation, collaboration fuels creativity and caring for people and partners cultivates strong relationships, Group Services aims to build a foundation for sustained success.
As a business that views success as a shared journey and celebrates every achievement along the way, Group Services offers the opportunity to grow, develop skills and make a meaningful impact.
Dubai Holding Group Services proudly supports a diverse portfolio of companies:
• Dubai Holding Real Estate
• Dubai Holding Entertainment
• Dubai Holding Community Management
• Dubai Holding Land Estates
• Dubai Holding Hospitality
• Dubai Holding Investments
• Dubai Holding Asset Management
Job Overview:
- Adhere to the processes, guidelines, and protocols for all category management activities in line with set standards & protocols
- Align category management activities in alignment with procurement requirements of business stakeholders
- Prepare reports to monitor key performance indicators, highlight gaps in category management operations and recommend mitigation actions to the Category Managers
- Support the Category Manager with improvement initiatives within the strategic procurement process workflows
- Execute strategic sourcing activities in alignment with processes and guidelines across all kinds of strategic spends
- Conduct assessments to highlight sourcing constraints, supply risks and mitigation plans to the Category Manager.
- Collect information and interface as required with suppliers throughout the contract lifecycle, from starting, evaluating, selecting, renewing, and terminating contracts.
- Conduct spends analysis studies to analyse procurement trends, consolidate findings and present it to Category Manager along with insights and recommendations
- Execute strategic cost saving initiatives basis identified improvement initiatives by the Category Manager to optimise the relevant commercial, supplier relationships through category management skills, tools, and techniques
- Work with business stakeholders for determining the demand, project pipeline and ensure adherence to guidelines for optimising procurement costs and value.
- Perform market intelligence studies basis guidance from Category Manager, including identifying priority areas, sources, metrics, and analysis required – also identifying partners and third-party resources as required
- Analyse market benchmarking studies to identify trends, changes, and developments for the various procurement categories, including market prices, supplier capabilities and potential risks.
- Support leadership to incorporate market intelligence in Category Management vertical strategies.
- Consolidate inputs from spend analysis and market intelligence and prepare the inputs to support the Category Manager in defining the category and supplier strategy
- Monitor and follow-up with the relevant internal stakeholders to drive category management activities basis set ownership and governance structure
- Compile the sourcing projects list, prioritisation of project and savings goals
- Upload strategic sourcing projects to the project management tool
- Execute all category management & strategic spend projects in line with the set strategy and cost saving targets.
- Adhere to supplier relationship management approach and guidelines set by the leadership, including vendor segmentation, risk management and relationship management guidelines
- Analyse and provide inputs on supplier evaluation and selection to the Manager Category
- Work with strategic suppliers in line with the supplier relationship management approach and guidelines
- Assess and prepare supplier assessment reports to evaluate supplier performance, and support risk management actions (if any) as directed by Category Managers to correct supplier performance.
- Meet individual objectives and priorities in line with the DH GS procurement and overall GS objectives, within the set milestones
- Complete assigned upskilling and continuous development initiatives set by sub-function manager and implement those learning in existing ways of working.
- Practice a customer centric culture, drive innovation in the existing role and have a high-performance mindset to generate high value for the DH GS procurement function.
About you:
- Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration / Supply Chain or any related field.
- Additional qualification such as CIPS, Project Management etc. certification preferred.
- Minimum of 2-5 years of experience in procurement function
- Project management experience including planning, mobilising, and delivering procurement projects
- Strong understanding of contracts and legal terminology with experience in delivering across a diverse procurement category
- Experience working in a procurement shared services is preferred.
- Experience working in the Middle East region is preferred.
About the Benefits:
At Dubai Holding, we're committed to nurturing the success and well-being of our colleagues. Join our dynamic and diverse team, and enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that includes competitive compensation, career development opportunities, and a collaborative work environment. We strongly believe in creating an empowered Classification: Internal workforce that will help us build a connected city for tomorrow. We are committed to attracting the brightest minds and nurturing the most pioneering candidates who desire to make a great impact on the future of Dubai
