Contracts and Procurement Manager

About the Company

NMES, founded in 2005 and a subsidiary of ACWA Power, is a leading Saudi-based provider of operation and maintenance (O\&M) services for power and water desalination plants. It supports large-scale infrastructure across the GCC, North Africa, and other regions, contributing significantly to Saudi Arabia’s utility demands

About the Role

The role involves managing contract processes, procurement cycles, and ensuring compliance with company guidelines while maintaining strong vendor relationships.

Responsibilities

• Prepare the RFQ/RFP in coordination with internal stakeholders to ensure complete coverage of the requirement, both technically as well as commercially.
• Conduct the pre-selection of the bidders in coordination with line Management to ensure the best partners are selected for further assessment.
• Analyze proposals from the suppliers, including total costs, direct labor hours, overhead rates, proposed bills of material and equipment, and estimated profits for the purposes of determining price reasonableness, to assist the negotiation process.
• Assist in the pricing and contract negotiations with vendors to ensure minimum risk, whilst ensuring NMES receives superior commercial and contractual terms.
• Prepare contract documents, using company-approved template agreement including Non-Disclosure Agreements, Master Agreements, Statements of Work, Service Level Agreements, and Amendments, to ensure compliance with NOMAC’s contracting guidelines.
• Execute the contract approval process by obtaining required approvals before execution, according to company policy.
• Ensure that the contract is firmed up with the suppliers based on the standard NMES Contract template.
• In case of any deviations to the terms, coordinate with legal to have the deviations agreed and formalized.
• Collate the required information from the internal stakeholders and finalize the specifications and requirements for the preparation of RFQ’s to be provided to the potential list of suppliers.
• Coordinate the procurement or Contract cycle for assigned materials and services under the supervision of the Head of Supply Chain - NMES to ensure the procurement needs are met in a timely and cost-optimized manner.
• Administer terms of purchase in conjunction with relevant stakeholders and legal to ensure all the procured materials and/or services are delivered as per the purchase order (PO) / Contract to take any corrective measures in case of noted deviations and ensure that NMES’s interest are protected at all times.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor degree holder in Engineering, Materials Management, Logistics and distribution or equivalent.
• 12-13 years’ experience in the same field preferably in the Power industry on local as well as international procurement.

Required Skills

• Good ability to find vendors in the UAE and KSA market related to materials/services in the Power Industry.
• Ability to look at improvements as well as manage the daily operations at the same time.
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure.
• Should have the quality of taking complete responsibility of the task and willing to go beyond his present role to ensure timely delivery of this responsibility.
• Working knowledge of the SAP system.
• Knowledge of law/regulations and contracts including terms and conditions.
• Ability to understand the material or service with a sourcing perspective.
• Planning and organizing Skills.
• Ability to develop relationships with new vendors.
• Attention to detail.
• Process orientation.
• Team Player with ability to work with multi-national teams.
• Good negotiation skills.