Summary
EY is hiring an Assistant Manager or Manager for its Supply Chain & Operations team in Dubai. The role leads client engagements and teams delivering procurement transformation, including spend management, operating model changes, digitalisation and ESG initiatives. Responsibilities include managing projects and bids, presenting findings to senior clients, developing client relationships, and coaching colleagues. Applicants should have a track record in procurement transformation, experience at a tier 1 consultancy for at least five years, and a bachelor’s degree; Arabic is an advantage but not essential.
The posting
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The opportunity
We currently are seeking a highly motivated Assistant Manager / Manager to lead client engagement teams, work with a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services and participate in business development activities on strategic and global priority accounts.
Our Supply Chain & Operations team members provide insights into Procurement transformation covering:
- Spend Management – cost optimisation, category management, strategic sourcing
- Procurement Operating Model Transformation
- Procurement Digitalisation
- Procurement Operations
- ESG
This team focuses on helping clients run their supply chains effectively in order to improve their business performance
Your key responsibilities
As a Manager your key role will be to lead large transformational client engagements as well as internal projects. Drawing on your knowledge, skills and experience, you will establish valued relationships with external clients at the ‘’C’’ level. You will lead large global and regional bids, proposals and thought leadership. You will lead teams at our clients, supporting them with improving their business performance. You will be responsible for presenting executive summary findings to enact change. You will manage multiple EY colleagues across levels and client team members. You will review other’s work to ensure it is of a high quality. You will mentor others as they progress in their own career.
Skills and attributes for success
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Strong experience and track record of leading successful procurement transformations in industry or consulting
- Experience of managing staff on multiple projects and providing direction to team members
- 5+ years’ experience at a tier 1 consultancy
- Outstanding academic record to at least Batchelor degree level
- Experience and passion for one of Digital solutions and trends, operating model development, third-party spend management, ESG, or leading supply chain solutions
- Excellent communications skills including verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Entrepreneurial flare and the ability to identify business opportunities and cross sell different services and/or products
- Arabic speaking and reading an advantage but not essential
Ideally, you’ll also have:
- An analytical mindset
- A change mindset
- A continuous learning mindset
- A teaming mindset
- The ability to travel across the region
What we look for
Alongside your comprehensive and proven technical expertise you will also be a born leader with a passion for:
- Developing people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
- Conducting performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
- Contributing to our people initiatives that include recruiting and retaining our professionals
What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive compensation package where you will be rewarded based on your performance and recognised for the value you bring to the business. We also offer:
- Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
About EY
EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.