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Category Manager
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To procure materials and services through strategic approach and choose the right vendor for the requirements by ensuring quality control and adhering to the company’s policies and procedures. Responsible and Accountable for managing purchasing team and process, sourcing, negotiation, supplier identification, new project mobilization, delivery, and supplier management.
Responsibilities Strategic Development- Spend Analysis – perform spend analysis and plan LTPA/Tender categories based on priority and needs.
- Identify and pre‑qualify new potential suppliers, prepare tender documents with necessary scope, technical and commercial evaluation, arrange samples for approval, arrange e‑auction, and prepare supplier contract agreements.
- Oversee and supervise the team ensuring timely purchase and adherence to company policies.
- Verify and approve PO, ARF and transport indents in the portal.
- Assess and source quotations from potential suppliers.
- Negotiate contracts, secure improved prices, payment and delivery terms, and review opportunities for business savings.
- Understand project needs, formulate material and service delivery plan per requirements and deadlines.
- Regularly update operation heads on mobilization progress and resolve issues.
- Monitor and track spends within allocated budget.
- Monitor supplier and subcontractor performance with store and site personnel, evaluate contract performance, and address non‑compliance.
- Evaluate suppliers based on cost, quality of goods/services, competency and consistency.
- Prepare reports on PO spend, open POs, pending indents and savings, and present to management.
- Liaise with internal and external auditors to review contracts and processes for accuracy, efficacy and completeness.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Communicate with stakeholders regularly, attend meetings, and address issues.
- Maintain professional and consistent approach in supplier relationships.
- Strengthen relationships by earning trust, listening to concerns, and involving them in processes to resolve escalated issues.
- Engage employees in decision‑making and ownership.
- Continuously perform market research by attending industry expos, online research, seminars, etc., to identify potential suppliers and products and improve performance.
- Research and evaluate areas of opportunity to reduce costs where possible.
- Bachelor of Engineering.
- 8 years of experience in Soft Service Procurement.
- Knowledge on sourcing and procurement techniques.
- Market intelligence on sources and trends.
- Experience in collecting and analyzing data; highly organized and detail‑oriented.
- Data Analysis.
- Negotiation Skills.
- Procurement Management.
- Job Identification 959
- Job Category Logistics/Supply Chain
- Posting Date 10/21/2025, 08:21 AM
- Locations AG House, Deira
- Apply Before 11/20/2025, 08:00 PM
- Job Schedule Full time
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Category Manager - Private Label
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Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region's best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.
About the team
You will be joining the Grocery team at Careem, where we are on a mission to redefine convenience across the region. Our focus on Private Label is central to improving quality, value, and differentiation in our offerings. The team is highly cross-functional and collaborative, working closely with operations, commercial, analytics, and product teams.
About the role
We are looking for a Category Manager to drive our Private Label strategy and support the execution within the Grocery vertical. This role is based in Dubai and will play a key part in shaping the growth of our Private Label product portfolio, optimizing pricing, sourcing, and vendor relationships to ensure strong performance across the region.
What you'll do
- Own the private label P&L for categories and assortment strategy for Private Label categories in the UAE.
- Develop strategic sourcing strategies, lead supplier negotiations and onboarding, ensuring alignment with Careem's commercial requirements and expectations.
- Work closely with supply chain and demand planning teams to maintain high availability and optimized inventory levels.
- Partner with marketing and product teams to drive visibility, adoption, and conversion of Private Label SKUs.
- Monitor category performance, customer feedback, and market trends to refine strategies.
- Collaborate with legal, finance, and compliance to ensure all products meet regulatory standards.
What you'll need
- 5-8 years of experience in category management, merchandising, procurement, or strategic sourcing—ideally in grocery retail or FMCG.
- Proven track record of owning commercial KPIs and delivering on margin and growth targets.
- Strong negotiation skills and experience managing supplier relationships.
- Analytical mindset with comfort in Excel and data tools to drive decisions. Entrepreneurial drive, ownership mindset, and bias for action.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
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Category Manager - Sports Dubai
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Who we are:
GMG is a global well-being company retailing, distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport, everyday goods, health and beauty, properties and logistics sectors. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family for over 45 years, GMG is a valued partner of choice for the world's most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, GMG has introduced more than 120 brands across 12 countries. These include notable home-grown brands such as Sun & Sand Sports, Dropkick, Supercare Pharmacy, Farm Fresh, Klassic, and international brands like Nike, Columbia, Converse, Timberland, Vans, Mama Sita's, and McCain.
We are hiring Category Managers across our key categories, including Performance, Lifestyle and Seasonal Sports.
As Category Manager, you will play a vital role in shaping product assortments, driving sales growth, and delivering an exceptional customer experience. You’ll work closely with the buying and merchandising teams, oversee inventory optimization, and lead cross-functional initiatives to maximize performance in a fast-paced and dynamic retail environment.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead end-to-end category management including assortment planning, pricing, and promotional strategy
- Conduct market research and analyze consumer, competitor, and sales data to shape category direction
- Collaborate with merchandising, logistics, and marketing to ensure successful product launches and seasonal planning
- Optimize inventory levels and supply chain flow using tools like SAP and Power BI
- Build strong relationships with suppliers, negotiate contracts, and ensure favorable pricing and delivery terms
- Track and report on category performance, identifying improvement areas and driving actionable insights
- Lead and develop category-specific teams, setting clear performance targets and fostering growth
What we need:
- Experience: 7+ years in category management, with at least 5 years in sports, fashion, or lifestyle retail
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business or Supply Chain; postgraduate degree is an advantage
- Systems: Proficiency in SAP ERP and Power BI, with strong data analysis and inventory planning skills
- Skills: Excellent negotiation, leadership, and communication skills; strong commercial acumen
- Languages: Fluent in English; Arabic is an advantage
- Mindset: Strategic, data-driven, customer-focused, and agile
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Sr. Category Manager, FMS, BBM
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At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. We are seeking a Procurement Manager to create world wide strategies for Base Building Reliability (BBR) for multiple business units and operation centers. The person in this role will coordinate and partner with leaders and teams globally across Amazon and lead and interact with our most important professional suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements.
This leader will work with RME, Design and Construction, World Wide Design, and Safety to develop and execute category sourcing strategies, deliver savings/value and improve productivity across the category.
Key job responsibilities
Identify, develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies, lead key initiatives with cross-functional teams; drive the decision-making process of the category roadmap with senior leadership.
Build relationships and alignment with internal and external stakeholders
Lead supplier performance management; including improving sustainability & social responsibility;
Drive alignment and establish success criteria for common or shared goals around Savings, and Sustainability
Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed
Coordinate and collaborate with local teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies
Candidate must be able to travel, up to 10%
A day in the life
You will deliver market leading low-cost, innovative and sustainable equipment/services to help our Operations teams succeed and delight Amazon.com customers with speed, selection and convenience
You will collaborate to seek inputs and manage outputs from our external suppliers as well as internal partners across Design & Operations Engineering, Workplace Health & Safety, Finance and Reliability/Maintenance Engineering
You may have to adapt and sometimes take different roles from strategy development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs
You will focus on deep diving categories to unlock value and help deploy emerging technologies at scale for Operations
About the team
We are customer inclusive and take a data-informed approach to scalable globally for all our customers
We are Safety-first, innovation-first team; we experiment new ideas and challenge old norms
We believe in strategic partnerships to unlock optimal value and cost of ownership across our categories
We lead on & advocate Design for Sustainability to help reduce the carbon footprint of our Operations buildings
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of purchasing experience
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
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Senior Category Manager IT - MI
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We'reHiring: Senior Category Manager - IT (Networks)
Are youpassionate about procurement strategy and eager to lead network-relatedsourcing activities in a dynamic, multi-country telecom environment? Join us at(Company Name) as a Senior Category Manager – Networks and play apivotal role in shaping procurement excellence within a newly centralizedfunction.
What You'll Do:
Develop and execute robustprocurement strategies for Networks, ensuring alignment with businessobjectives.
Collaborate closely withtechnical and commercial teams across multiple operating companies.
Lead supplier selection,negotiation, and contract management to maximize value and innovation.
Drive transformation byembedding best practices and ensuring consistency across the group.
Manage stakeholder engagementand act as the primary point of contact for network category queries.
What We Expect:
8+ years in procurement orcategory management within telecom.
Deep knowledge of IT/networktechnologies and market dynamics.
Proven negotiation and suppliermanagement skills.
Strong analytical andstakeholder management abilities.
Bachelor's degree in Business,Engineering, or related field; Master’s or certifications are a plus.
Fluent in English; French is anadvantage.
Willingness to travel acrossAfrican regions.
If you'reready to make a significant impact and grow your career in a challenging andrewarding role, apply now!
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Strategic Specialty Category Manager - UAE Growth
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Marketing Manager
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At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons.
The Marketing Manager plays a key role in delivering WSP's growth marketing strategy within the Middle East Region. This role is responsible for shaping and deploying marketing plans aligned with WSP's strategic objectives, brand, and business targets. The Marketing Manager delivers marketing strategies and tactics to ensure brand awareness and business growth in the Middle East, in alignment with WSP's global brand and global strategic action plan.
Through this work, the Marketing Manager actively contributes to the achievement of the marketing team's objectives: increasing brand awareness and familiarity, supporting business development, work winning and contributing to talent acquisition.
+ Translate global and regional marketing strategies into locally relevant initiatives for the Middle East market.
+ Shape and deliver marketing initiatives to support regional growth areas as well as work winning strategies.
+ Build and maintain strong partnerships with key sector stakeholders.
+ Regularly report on the performance (ROI) of marketing initiatives.
+ Collaborate with Marketing and Communications colleagues globally and in corporate services.
+ Ensure all initiatives adhere to established processes, deadlines, and budgets.
+ Bachelor's degree in marketing or business administration, with 8+ years of shaping and deploying B2B or services marketing strategies.
+ Strong interpersonal skills and significant experience in working with senior leadership teams and other key stakeholders.
+ Strong experience in engaging clients through the full marketing mix.
+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (and if possible, also in Arabic).
+ Excellent knowledge of marketing and communication technologies and tools including AI.
+ Experience in a global engineering consulting or similar environment is an asset.
+ Ability to work autonomously and lead projects with minimal supervision.
+ Excellent project management skills and business acumen, and ability to manage competing priorities.
+ Experience collaborating with global teams and senior leaders.
+ Creative and innovative thinker - you are responsive to the marketing industry changes and are constantly adapting to the evolving channels, tactics and opportunities.
+ Strong interest in developing knowledge of current marketplace trends.
+ Based/ located in the Middle East (KSA or UAE).
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