Senior Director - Centralized Purchasing

Job Purpose

Empowering Progress Through Integrated Supply Chain & Logistics Solutions

Red Sea Coastal Trading Company is a specialized supply chain and logistics subsidiary under Red Sea Global, designed to power the seamless delivery of materials, equipment, and services across our portfolio of pioneering developments.

Operating at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s most ambitious regenerative tourism projects, the subsidiary delivers end-to-end supply chain management, including procurement support, transportation coordination, inventory and warehouse management, and last-mile logistics to remote destinations across the Red Sea coast and beyond.

With a focus on efficiency, reliability, and environmental responsibility, the team ensures that every link in the supply chain supports Red Sea Global’s commitment to sustainability, operational excellence, and local value creation.

Efficiency in Motion. Excellence in Delivery.

Role:

Leads the RSCTC enterprise-wide procurement and category management agenda across all indirect and direct spend areas, ensuring that third-party expenditure delivers maximum commercial value, supply continuity, quality, innovation, and risk control.

This role is responsible for designing and executing category strategies, segmenting spend, developing high-performing supplier partnerships, improving total cost of ownership, and embedding a disciplined, data-driven sourcing and governance model across the organization. The role acts as a strategic business partner to commercial, operations, finance, and functional leaders to align procurement decisions with company growth, margin, service, and resilience objectives.

Job Responsibilities - Leadership

Procurement and Category Strategy

• Develop and lead the enterprise procurement strategy aligned with the company’s business priorities, growth plans, and operating model
• Establish a category management framework covering category segmentation, spend analysis, opportunity assessment, sourcing wave plans, and governance
• Own category strategies for key spend areas, including supply market analysis, demand management, supplier positioning, pricing models, and risk mitigation plans
• Drive value creation through cost optimization, specification improvement, standardization, demand aggregation, and total cost of ownership analysis
• Build multi-year category roadmaps with measurable savings, service, quality, and risk outcomes

Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Delivery

• Lead high-value and complex sourcing initiatives, negotiations, and contract awards across priority categories
• Ensure robust sourcing methodologies are applied, including RFx, e-auctions where appropriate, should-cost analysis, benchmarking, and scenario evaluation
• Approve sourcing recommendations and commercial strategies within delegated authority
• Ensure contracts are commercially sound, compliant, and structured to protect value, service levels, and supply continuity

Supplier Relationship and Performance Management

• Develop a supplier segmentation approach that distinguishes strategic, preferred, approved, and transactional suppliers
• Build supplier relationship management practices for strategic suppliers, including performance reviews, executive governance, risk reviews, business continuity, and innovation pipelines
• Define and monitor supplier KPIs covering cost, service, quality, lead time, responsiveness, compliance, and sustainability
• Lead supplier development and rationalization programs to improve capability, competitiveness, and resilience

Job Responsibilities - Functional

Procurement Transformation and Analytics

• Lead the transformation from transactional purchasing to a category-led procurement organization
• Improve procurement processes, systems, data quality, reporting, and digital enablement to increase visibility and decision quality
• Establish procurement dashboards tracking savings, cost avoidance, contract coverage, compliance, supplier performance, working capital, and risk exposure
• Use market intelligence and spend analytics to identify trends, sourcing opportunities, and category actions

Business Partnering and Demand Governance

• Partner with customers and stakeholders to challenge demand, clarify requirements, and align procurement strategies with operational and commercial needs
• Initiate, chair or support cross-functional category committees to guide sourcing priorities, standardization decisions, and supplier selection
• Promote early procurement involvement in budgeting, new initiatives, product introductions, and major projects
• Drive compliance with approved buying channels, contracts, and category strategies

Risk, Controls, and Governance

• Ensure procurement policies, approval matrices, delegation of authority, and sourcing controls are consistently applied
• Strengthen procurement governance across competitive bidding, supplier onboarding, contract management, and ethical sourcing
• Identify and mitigate supply, commercial, operational, geopolitical, and concentration risks across key categories
• Maintain appropriate audit trails, documentation standards, and policy compliance across procurement activities

Job Responsibilities - Organizational

Team Leadership and Capability Building

• Build and lead a high-performing procurement and category management team with clear roles, responsibilities, and development plans
• Define capability requirements in strategic sourcing, analytics, negotiation, SRM, and stakeholder management
• Coach team members on category planning, commercial acumen, and value delivery
• Create a performance culture focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and business impact

Job Stakeholders - Internal

Internal Stakeholders:

• Executive Leadership Team
• Finance
• KAM / Sales
• Logistics
• Operations
• Legal
• Quality / HSE / Compliance

Job Stakeholders - External

• Strategic suppliers and service providers
• Contract manufacturers / distributors / logistics partners
• Industry bodies and market intelligence providers
• Auditors / regulators, where applicable

Job Requirements - Qualification & Experience

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or related field
• MBA or master’s degree preferred
• Professional certifications such as CIPS, CPSM, CSCP, ISM, or equivalent are advantageous
• 15++years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain, including senior leadership responsibility
• Proven experience leading category management in a multi-site, multi-business-unit, or large complex organization
• Demonstrated success in delivering savings, supplier performance improvement, and procurement transformation
• Strong experience in contract negotiation, supplier management, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement
• Experience in trading, distribution, FMCG, industrial, retail, or similarly complex commercial environments preferred

Job Requirements - Skills

Job Context