Life at Dubai Future Foundation
Ever wondered what the future may look like? Or what it takes to create it? Here at Dubai Future Foundation we test everything innovative, disruptive and upcoming. Our mission is “creating the future for the betterment of humanity”.
We believe that Dubai’s environment and people can offer a unique place where the future can be created. Nowhere else has the same drive and ambition to impact the future the way we can. It’s our goal to positively affect the future by our actions today so we can benefit people in all corners of the globe
If the idea of creating and shaping the future and testing what hasn’t been tested before excites you, if you’re passionate about benefiting human kind and leaving a mark, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to Dubai Future Foundation!
Where does this role fit into the bigger picture?
The Senior Specialist - Procurement reports directly to the Manager of Procurement & Contracts within the Corporate Services structure.
Corporate Services main objective is to enable the Dubai Future Foundation to deliver on its ambitions and initiatives through acting as a business partner and advisor and providing support to the business in different areas such as Finance, Legal, HR, Procurement…etc.
Senior Specialist - Procurement
As the Senior Specialist Procurement for the Dubai Future Foundation, your role will be to ensure smooth and efficient purchasing processes, accuracy and transparency of RFPs and high-level support to the businesses’ purchasing needs. You will be flexible, able to think on your feet, service and delivery-focused. You will build strong partnerships both internally and externally to ensure the purchasing process is cost effective, consistent, compliant with organisational policies, and deadlines are met.
Purchasing
- You will be the account manager for specific projects working closely with the project teams to manage procurement requirements, conduct pre-planning where possible, push project requirements through contracts and confirm quality and delivery of requirements.
- You will be responsible for ensuring the daily transactional procurement processes follow organisational policies and procedures.
- You will create and manage the RFP process including designing straight forward requests, getting quotations, comparing vendor costings, negotiating prices, confirming orders, validating deliveries, maintaining accurate purchasing records.
- You will manage the office supply inventory and ensure timely reordering to support the ongoing day to day business operations.
- You will be responsible for validating order details, product delivery and checking invoices for accuracy prior to payment.
- You will negotiate with suppliers to ensure the best terms for the business requirements.
- Ensuring regular tracking of purchase orders status, adherence to deadlines and escalations are done where required will be critical to the success of your role.
Third Party Relationships
- You will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with 3rd party suppliers and contractors.
- You will regularly evaluate suppliers based on their delivery ensuring the vender records are up-to-date and accurate.
Why this role is important?
This role makes the biggest impact by being proactive, efficient and process-driven to enable smooth delivery of purchasing requirements to the business. You will have a huge value-add to the business through cost savings, efficiency and protecting the business by ensuring excellent compliance.
What Dubai Future Foundation offers?
We will offer you a unique opportunity to work with passionate people, support shapers of the future as well as work that has an impact, not only on the organization or the UAE but all of humankind.
You will have the chance to work on exciting and new projects, work in a highly diverse and fast paced environment that fosters creativity, disruptive ideas and innovation.
