Senior Category Strategist

17 hours ago


Riyadh, Ar Riyāḑ, Saudi Arabia Qiddiya Investment Company Full time
Company Overview:
The Qiddiya Investment Company is a pioneering organization in the entertainment and tourism sector, aiming to revolutionize the industry with its cutting-edge projects. As a flagship gigaproject under Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 initiative, we strive to create a world-class entertainment, cultural, and lifestyle destination.

Job Description:
The Associate Director will play a pivotal role in developing and executing an overarching category procurement strategy for Professional Services & Marketing categories, ensuring alignment with our strategic goals. This involves streamlining category procurement across the organization, aligning it with business objectives, and driving procurement excellence in the category.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive procurement strategy for the category to achieve supply security, speed, quality, cost optimization, ESG, and innovation.
  • Analyze the category in detail, identifying cost management opportunities, segmenting products/services, mapping segments with our procurement taxonomy, and collaborating with internal stakeholders.
  • Conduct market analyses to study suppliers, pricing, seasonality/volatility of supply, emerging trends, regulations, supply chain risks, cost-saving opportunities, competitors, collaborators, etc.
  • Evaluate suppliers based on factors such as offerings, capacity, technical capabilities, prices, local presence, track record, quality, post-sales support, financials, etc.
  • Drive full value enablement to extract maximum value from procurement spend via commercial and non-commercial levers, including demand consolidation, strategic partnerships, specification improvement, value engineering, negotiation strategies, etc.
  • Cross-functionally drive implementation of the category strategy via well-defined initiatives and collaboration, engaging suppliers, formulating strategic partnership structures, executing strategic partnerships, managing supplier relationships, etc.
  • Support the Procurement operation by handling operational procurement and driving end-to-end packages to completion.


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