Director - Third Party Suppliers
About the company:
Almosafer (part of Seera Group) Saudi Arabia’s Leading Travel Company
Elevating the journey for travelers from Saudi Arabia, the region & beyond, while harnessing Seera Group’s 40+ years of expertise, Almosafer supports Saudi Arabia’s vision as a national champion for tourism. Almosafer creates opportunities for outbound, leisure, and religious travel, whilst serving B2C and B2B customers, partners, and suppliers with state-of-the-art travel solutions, a digital-first mindset, and travel advisory.
About the job:
We are looking for a critical thinker role Director of Supplier Sourcing to assist the company in creating strong relationships with suppliers and maintaining the existing ones. To be a successful Director Supplier Sourcing, you should be able to work with the relevant departments to ensure that all decisions and strategies will be commercial, technical, consumer and data driven.
A high-performing Director should be able to develop and implement innovative strategies to enhance group level sourcing.
Responsibilities:
- Define the sourcing strategy
- Discover and explore potential opportunities by contacting potential partners and suppliers.
- Screen potential business deals by analyzing market strategies, deal requirements, and financials.
- Manage daily suppliers performance, including technical performance based on internal KPI’s brand status, price/cost analysis, policies and procedures compliance and liaison support to other functions in the company.
- Responsible for developing and managing supplier relationships.
- Lead the commercials negotiation with suppliers to focus on achieving company goals and KPI’s - Play key roles and influence negotiation of technical, commercial and operational SLA’s with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
- Conduct regular supplier and internal stakeholders meetings to ensure a 360 review of KPI’s adherence or set common KPI’s.
- Ensure high demand and supply projection and reliability for short, medium and long term.
- Maintain and expand the supplier portfolio according to internal KPI;s, ensuring product diversity.
- Frequently interacts with the performance marketing and data team.
- Plan the supply in order to have the best market adaptability and adaptability to market trend changes.
- Understand, analyze and identify Trends and Opportunities from the region's trading, destination news and happenings
Profile Requirements:
- 8-12 years of experience as a Contracting Manager, Account Manager or Supplier Sourcing Roles in Travel or Hospitality E-Commerce company
- Good knowledge in XML Integrations or other Supplier Management System used in Travel and Hospitality
- Technical understanding on booking flow in OTA and B2B
- Got a Dynamic Business Analytical knowledge and used to a data-driven environment
- Has an excellent communication skills
- Travel and Tourism Market understanding and expertise
Being you @ Almosafer:
At Almosafer we strongly believe in diversity and equal opportunities for all candidates. We do not discriminate based on any characteristic and follow fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. Join our inclusive work environment