Procurement Executive (UAEN) | Corporate Services | Dubai – Al-Futtaim Group

This UAE National-designated Procurement Executive role sits within Al-Futtaim Group’s Corporate Services function, focused on sourcing strategy for Media and Marketing categories across the group’s many divisions. The role is built around high-value, complex sourcing projects – the kind of procurement work that requires genuine commercial judgment rather than routine purchase-order processing.

Day to day, this means leading sourcing exercises for marketing and media services, structuring and negotiating supplier contracts, and partnering with marketing and business unit leaders across Al-Futtaim’s automotive, retail, real estate, and financial services divisions to understand what each needs before running a sourcing process. Because the projects are described as high-value and complex, this role carries real ownership over outcomes that matter to the business, not just administrative procurement support.

Being an Emiratisation-designated role, it also reflects Al-Futtaim’s commitment to developing UAE National talent inside senior commercial functions, with genuine responsibility attached rather than a purely developmental placement.

This suits a commercially minded UAE National looking to build a procurement and category management career with real decision-making responsibility inside one of the region’s largest family-owned groups.

High-value, complex sourcing projects are where procurement either protects significant value for the business or quietly loses it through weak negotiation or poor contract structuring, and this role carries direct accountability for getting that right in the media and marketing category across Al-Futtaim's divisions. Because the projects span multiple business units, good work here sets a standard other teams can follow, turning one strong negotiation into a template for consistent value capture across the group. This role also matters as part of the group's wider commitment to building Emirati leadership inside commercial functions - the business benefits from having UAE National talent fluent in high-stakes procurement decisions, not just represented in headcount numbers. Done well, this role protects marketing budgets, strengthens supplier accountability, and builds the kind of commercial track record that feeds directly into future category and procurement leadership within the group. None of this shows up as a single dramatic win; it shows up as the quiet, compounding reliability that lets the wider team move faster with more confidence.

This role is a genuine fast-track into serious procurement responsibility - leading high-value, complex sourcing projects this early is the kind of experience that typically takes years to reach in a more conventional procurement career path. It builds advanced negotiation and contract structuring skills, exposure to how a major diversified conglomerate manages commercial relationships across very different business lines, and the stakeholder management muscle needed to align marketing, business unit, and finance priorities on a single sourcing decision. As an Emiratisation-designated position, it also comes with visibility among senior leadership invested in developing UAE National talent for future category and procurement leadership roles, which is a meaningful career accelerant beyond the role's day-to-day content. For a UAE National building a long-term commercial career, few roles in the market offer this combination of real ownership, cross-business exposure, and institutional backing this early. For someone deliberate about their next few career moves, that combination of substance and clarity is worth more than a flashier title with less to actually show for it. That foundation matters most in the long run, because the specific tools and systems in any given role tend to change, while strong fundamentals built early carry forward into whatever comes next.

• UAE National status, in line with this role’s Emiratisation designation
• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, or a related field
• Experience or strong aptitude for procurement, sourcing, or commercial negotiation
• Ability to manage complex, high-value sourcing projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Analytical skills to evaluate supplier proposals and track value delivered
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills across diverse business units
• Interest in media, marketing, or advertising category dynamics is a plus