Procurement Optimization Specialist - Ahmedabad, India

• Closing date: 23-Aug-2025

We are actively hiring for a Procurement Specialist having hands on expertise in Optimization.

Responsible for optimizing Procurement operations via enhancing existing tools and processes, automating tasks in order to facilitate Procurement workstream. The role is pivotal in developing and designing the underlying data structures to enable automated Procurement reporting. The job focuses on supporting category managers to improve their outcomes and maximizing the use of new reporting capability, data and insight. Furthermore, the job collaborates with wider GBS and service line leaders to implement sustainable process improvements which improve process performance against internal measures, drive process performance against external world class benchmarks and ensure professional service quality. Responsible for Sourcing Execution team reporting, single point of contact for tools and sourcing related system enhancements. Administrator and Super User of the sourcing systems.

• Develop automated data structures in co-ordination with service line teams to enable operational
• Tansparency within shared services
• Automate reporting and development of automated dashboard across Sourcing Execution using either Power BI, Tableau, existing systems or developing other tools to develop operational transparency and improve reporting accuracy and productivity.
• Work independently and as part of a team to design, develop, test and implement reports.
• Single point of contact for tools and sourcing related system enhancements.
• Lead the sourcing improvement forum within the Procurement and Logistics department and coordinate deliverables
• Redesign, maintain and manage Procurement SharePoint, including access management.
• Coordinate and manage preparation of reports and presentations by the wider Procurement team for the senior and executive management.
• Lead performance analysis and discovery with category managers to develop and implement performance improvements achieve improvement objectives.
• Act as single point of contact for BI team for improvements, enhancements as well as cooperate with the BI to ensure database compliance when creating Procurement driven BI dashboards.
• Monitor and analyze processes for opportunities to improve through the use of CASE principles (Centralize, Automate, Simplify, Eliminate).
• Apply critical and analytical thinking skills to translate complex information into understandable and impactful implementation plans.
• Lead process improvement initiatives through disciplined data led measures, accountability, analysis, and discussion of process alternatives to define best practice solutions.
• Assist and support senior management in data analysis
• Develop internal and external procurement performance benchmarking to drive operational transparency and improve performance

• Experience of process mining and automated data analytics
• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 4 years of job-related experience
• Experience of Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, Cognitive, and Artificial Intelligence
• Strong SQL and database programming experience gained through either SQL Server, MySQL,
• Oracle and other relational databases
• Lean six sigma qualification
• Service delivery and service management experience for 4-5 years
• Celonis or similar process mining experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Power BI / Tableau data structure and report development

About Qatar Airways Group

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

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