About Four Seasons:Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.About the location: Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.The Role of Manager, Procurement.We currently have an opportunity for a Manager, Procurement to join our Four Seasons Corporate team in Dubai!This role reports to our Senior Procurement Director, this role has a hospitality pre-opening focus; working with Operations teams at the property and corporate level, Design Services and Owners on Uniformly Purchased Items (UPI) procurement process along with UPI budget facilitation and negotiation; all to achieve successful UPI procurement within budget and on time, and oversight of delivery status reporting with a focus on pre-opening projects in MEA and Europe.In addition to the above, other procurement activities to maintain awareness of market trends, conditions, commodities, currencies, and tariffs, as applicable. Responsibility for preparing Request for Proposal, for Quotation, project budgets, status reports and all other departmental reporting. Focus on delivering tangible value in the following areas: cost savings, New Product Development, supply risk management, and ongoing process improvement.This role works, closely with other departments within the organization to ensure all business requirements are incorporated into sourcing strategies. Manage cost savings tracking and assist with preparing annual cost savings analysis report.Our Ideal Procurement Manager will have:5-7 years’ experience with pre-opening hospitality procurement. An undergraduate degree in business (or related field) and/or Certified Supply Chain Management Professional. Advanced knowledge of procurement techniques, supplier management, pricing methods bid process and contract formation and ongoing management.You will have the highest level of integrity and transparency, strong interpersonal, influencing, negotiation, and relationship-building skills to work with cross-functional teams. You should have a proven track record of self-initiative to work independently and with limited supervision, and will be expected to understand the business, drive change and improve processes, demonstrating effective project management skills, as well as strong judgment, political astuteness and sensitivity to cultural diversity. Able to cultivate relationships and partnerships within the various departments, especially with Operations teams and new-opening property stakeholders to deliver broad value for the organization.Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts can offer what many hospitalities professionals dream of; the opportunity to build a life-long career with global potential and a real sense of pride in work well done. We look for talent who share the Golden Rule – people who, by nature, believe in treating others as we would have them treat us. As Four Seasons works towards phenomenal growth in the next decade, our most valuable partners continue to be our talent, with whom we have a strong relationship based on the Golden Rule. This relationship is made tangible by the awards received year after year by Four Seasons on a corporate level, as well as by our hotels, resorts, and residences around the world, making us an undisputed “employer of choice.”
