142 Procurement Lead jobs in Saudi Arabia

NOTE: Please ONLY apply if you have sufficient experience and skills required as per job description below.

Job Summary:

As Purchasing Lead, you will be responsible for delivering the day-to-day activities of the purchasing function while maintaining strong relationships with vendors and suppliers. You will evaluate purchasing and pricing trends to support demand forecasting and cost optimization. Your analytical and research skills will be instrumental in providing insightful management information to key stakeholders, enabling data-driven decisions that support business goals. In this role, you’ll actively engage with current and prospective suppliers to strengthen commercial advantage, ensuring alignment with the company’s quality programs and strategic initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILTY & AUTHORITY:

•Lead competitive sourcing and purchasing negotiations.
•Develop and execute sourcing strategies, particularly for supplier changes or spend optimization.
•Collaborate effectively with procurement team members to manage expectations and ensure a positive internal customer experience.
•Ensure the needs and satisfaction of operations and production teams are consistently met through procurement activities.
•Lead and support contract negotiations, supplier management, and contract implementation.
•Deliver against key targets including cost savings, efficiency, and service effectiveness.
•Create and gain alignment on category buying strategies with internal stakeholders.
•Draft, adjust, and implement purchasing contracts based on stakeholder input.
•Drive adoption and manage organization-wide agreements within assigned categories.
•Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities across procurement processes.
•Track and report Value for Money (VfM) initiatives.
•Contribute to cross-functional and cross-organizational sourcing projects.
•Analyze data to support joint procurement initiatives and increase agreement uptake.
•Ensure compliance with procurement policies, health & safety, and quality standards.
•Be accountable for meeting all relevant KPIs.
•Travel as required to support procurement activities.
•Perform other duties as needed, aligned with the role’s level and responsibilities.

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

1. Strategic Thinking

• Aligns sourcing actions with business goals and anticipates supply risks and opportunities.

2. Negotiation & Influence

• Skilled in achieving favorable outcomes while maintaining strong supplier relationships.

3. Collaboration

• Works effectively with internal teams and stakeholders to meet shared goals.

4. Communication

• Clear and confident communicator, able to convey complex ideas simply.

5. Initiative & Problem Solving

• Proactively identifies and addresses issues, driving continuous improvement.

6. Customer Focus

• Prioritizes internal customer needs and maintains high service levels.

7. Procurement Expertise

• Solid understanding of sourcing, category management, and contract negotiation.

8. Data-Driven Decision Making

• Uses data to support sourcing strategies, track savings, and guide decisions.

9. Compliance & Risk Awareness

• Ensures adherence to policies, quality, safety, and regulatory standards.

10. Results Orientation

• Focused on meeting KPIs related to cost, efficiency, and service delivery.

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION/SKILL-SET REQUIRED:

• Degree in supply chain or min 5 years experience in a similar role.

• Lead sourcing and purchasing negotiations.
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies for supplier changes or spend optimization.
• Collaborate with procurement team members to manage expectations and ensure a positive internal customer experience.
• Meet the needs of operations and production teams through procurement activities.
• Lead and support contract negotiations, supplier management, and contract implementation.
• Achieve targets related to cost savings, efficiency, and service effectiveness.
• Align category buying strategies with internal stakeholders.
• Draft, modify, and execute purchasing contracts based on stakeholder input.
• Manage organization-wide agreements within assigned categories.
• Identify and implement process improvements across procurement functions.
• Track and report on Value for Money (VfM) initiatives.
• Participate in cross-functional sourcing projects.
• Analyze data to support procurement initiatives and increase agreement uptake.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, safety, and quality standards.
• Meet relevant KPIs.
• Travel as needed to support procurement activities.
• Perform other duties as required, consistent with the role’s responsibilities.

• Strategic Thinking: Aligns sourcing with business goals, anticipates risks and opportunities.
• Negotiation & Influence: Achieves favorable outcomes while maintaining strong supplier relationships.
• Collaboration: Works effectively with teams and stakeholders.
• Communication: Clearly conveys ideas, even complex ones.
• Initiative & Problem Solving: Addresses issues proactively and drives improvements.
• Customer Focus: Prioritizes internal customer needs and maintains high service levels.
• Procurement Expertise: Knowledge of sourcing, category management, and contracts.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Uses data to support strategies and track savings.
• Compliance & Risk Awareness: Adheres to policies, quality, safety, standards.
• Results Orientation: Focused on meeting KPIs related to cost, efficiency, and service.

• Degree in supply chain or minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role.

Overview

The IT Vendor Management Specialist is responsible for overseeing the financial aspects of vendor relationships within the IT department. This role focuses primarily on budgeting, including cost analysis, forecasting, tracking vendor spend, and ensuring alignment with overall IT budget goals. The specialist works closely with procurement, finance, and IT teams to manage contracts, negotiate pricing, monitor vendor performance, and ensure cost efficiency across technology services and products.

• Prepare and track IT budget
• Collect BOQ, requirements and specifications from IT technical team and write RFPs/RFQs
• Collect proposals, ensure competence and compliance and create financial analysis and facilitate communication with technical team for clarifications
• Prepare and publish PO after compliance with approval hierarchy
• Track PO deliverables, delivery notes, payment terms/approvals and processing
• Track budgets vs actual spent
• Track and manage contract, support and subscriptions renewals for vendors services and report on monthly basis to IT management for review and execution
• Document, track and manage IT Dept Audit, Compliance and Risk requirements
• Review, update and maintain audit artifacts
• Track actions with target date and action owner and drive towards completion of the task assigned
• Regulatory & Business communications/Reporting for any IT services interruptions
• Prepare incident reports with accurate information and adhere to Exchange article guidelines on timeliness of reporting
• Track Tadawul/CMA actions by target date, owner until closure
• Track projects actions and escalations as necessary

• Associate

• Full-time

• Information Technology and Purchasing

• Financial Services and IT Services and IT Consulting

Overview

Amazon, one of the world’s leaders in e-commerce, is expanding its Retail business and looking for a smart and ambitious Manager, MVR Vendor Manager based in Riyadh to enable new partnerships with vendors aiming at integrating their product portfolio into Amazon websites. Come and experience a company that reinvents itself every day and immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, expanding and continuously inventing new efficiencies to offer great opportunities for our customers and for you! Operating in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment you will have full responsibility for achieving business objectives. You will need to engage in projects that will drive business growth and help shape the future of Amazon Retail in MENA. We expect that you can work autonomously, think both strategically and tactically, and take full control and responsibility for achieving your goals.

• Your objectives will be to build the best possible selection for our customers with the development of partnerships with new vendors.
• Your job will consist of managing a team prospecting, assessing, recruiting and integrating vendors for Amazon marketplaces.
• You will manage a team of Mass Vendor Recruiters: drive the team performance, monitor individual objectives and evaluate performances.
• Be a business consultant to new vendors and provide insights and advice for them, being able to deal with different business profiles and sectors.
• Help new vendors to integrate their catalogue data into Amazon platform, master Amazon’s internal tools and train vendors on how to use these tools.
• Plan, conduct, deliver, and report analyses to understand the performance of recruited vendors.
• Help to develop and improve recruiting and on-boarding processes, assist in removing any technical blockers and identifying technical improvement areas.

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
• 6+ years of digital advertising and client facing roles with a focus on data analysis experience
• Experience analyzing data and best practices to assess performance drivers
• Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders
• 2+ years of mentoring, leading and coaching experience

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

DESCRIPTION

Amazon, one the world’s leaders in e-commerce, is expanding its Retail business and looking for a smart and ambitious Manager, MVR Vendor Manager based in Riyadh to enable new partnerships with vendors aiming at integrating their product portfolio into Amazon websites.

Come and experience a company that reinvents itself every day and immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, expanding and continuously inventing new efficiencies to offer great opportunities for our customers and for you!

Operating in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment you will have full responsibility for achieving business objectives. You will need to engage in projects that will drive business growth and help shape the future of Amazon Retail in MENA. We expect that you can work autonomously, think both strategically and tactically, and take full control and responsibility for achieving your goals.

Key job responsibilities
Your objectives will be to build the best possible selection for our customers with the development of partnerships with new vendors. Your job will consist of managing a team prospecting, assessing, recruiting and integrating vendors for Amazon marketplaces.

You will manage a team of Mass Vendor Recruiters: drive the team performance, monitor individual objectives and evaluate performances.

Be a business consultant to new vendors and provide insights and advice for them, being able to deal with different business profiles and sectors.

Help new vendors to integrate their catalogue data into Amazon platform, master Amazon’s internal tools and train vendors on how to use these tools.

Plan, conduct, deliver, and report analyses to understand the performance of recruited vendors

Help to develop and improve recruiting and on-boarding processes, assist in removing any technical blockers and identifying technical improvement areas

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree
– Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
– 6+ years of digital advertising and client facing roles with a focus on data analysis experience
– Experience analyzing data and best practices to assess performance drivers
– Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 2+ years of mentoring, leading and coaching experience

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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Amazon, one the world's leaders in e-commerce, is expanding its Retail business and looking for a smart and ambitious Manager, MVR Vendor Manager based in Riyadh to enable new partnerships with vendors aiming at integrating their product portfolio into Amazon websites.

Come and experience a company that reinvents itself every day and immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, expanding and continuously inventing new efficiencies to offer great opportunities for our customers and for you!

Operating in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment you will have full responsibility for achieving business objectives. You will need to engage in projects that will drive business growth and help shape the future of Amazon Retail in MENA. We expect that you can work autonomously, think both strategically and tactically, and take full control and responsibility for achieving your goals.

Key job responsibilities
Your objectives will be to build the best possible selection for our customers with the development of partnerships with new vendors. Your job will consist of managing a team prospecting, assessing, recruiting and integrating vendors for Amazon marketplaces.

You will manage a team of Mass Vendor Recruiters: drive the team performance, monitor individual objectives and evaluate performances.

Be a business consultant to new vendors and provide insights and advice for them, being able to deal with different business profiles and sectors.

Help new vendors to integrate their catalogue data into Amazon platform, master Amazon's internal tools and train vendors on how to use these tools.

Plan, conduct, deliver, and report analyses to understand the performance of recruited vendors

Help to develop and improve recruiting and on-boarding processes, assist in removing any technical blockers and identifying technical improvement areas

- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
- 6+ years of digital advertising and client facing roles with a focus on data analysis experience
- Experience analyzing data and best practices to assess performance drivers
- Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders

- 2+ years of mentoring, leading and coaching experience

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Tagged as: Advertising , and Account Management , Sales