Senior Purchaser / Procurement Officer – Sharjah | Ektifa

Company Overview:

Ektifa is a premier, highly successful agricultural enterprise, elite poultry production group, and leading regional feed manufacturing corporation expanding its high-performance supply chain division in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Built upon world-class biosafety metrics, rigid quality assurance controls, and progressive procurement frameworks, the enterprise manages large-scale commercial farming networks, operates state-of-the-art milling hubs, and ensures absolute corporate compliance with federal food security mandates, municipal environmental laws, and international agricultural supply chain benchmarks.

Job Description:

We are executing a strategic professional appointment within our core materials management wing and are seeking a data-driven, highly analytical Senior Purchaser / Procurement Officer to govern global agricultural sourcing pipelines and direct high-value vendor allocation pathways in Sharjah. Configured for systematic supply chain specialists who possess deep operational command of commodity purchasing logic and excel at optimizing complex vendor lead times under shifting market rates, this full-time track focuses on accelerating inventory replenishment, auditing supply agreements, and maximizing cost-containment metrics under our unified corporate management framework.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Procure high-volume feed raw materials, detailing volume contracts for essential components including corn, soybean meal, and nutritional feed additives.
• Source premium veterinary medical products, general farm operational consumables, and specialized livestock packaging materials.
• Manage strategic long-term vendor partnerships, directing thorough vendor performance evaluations and annual capacity scorecards.
• Negotiate legally binding supply contracts, competitive pricing grids, delivery volume assurances, and structural procurement terms.
• Monitor international commodity trading markets, compiling diagnostic market intelligence regarding raw feed ingredient trends and price shifts.
• Coordinate closely with internal farm managers, feed mill production teams, and logistics squads to align incoming shipments.
• Identify structural cost-saving channels across global freight lines without altering strict corporate biometric or quality guidelines.
• Ensure systematic, uninterrupted material flows, establishing active safety-stock buffers across all critical manufacturing inputs.

🔹 Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Agriculture, Sourcing, or a matching technical discipline from a fully accredited academic institution is preferred.
• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of verified, high-performance professional history operating a commercial sourcing desk, running warehouse supply tracks, or managing high-value procurement portfolios specifically within the poultry, animal feed, or agro-industrial sectors.
• Advanced technical and analytical data literacy with extensive practical capability deploying Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) frameworks—with a deep practical emphasis on SAP architectures—and configuring complex cost models, tracking macros, and pivot matrices inside advanced Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
• Deep, comprehensive operational knowledge across the following primary functional dimensions:
  • Poultry and commercial feed manufacturing procurement parameters, bulk ingredient grades, and bio-secure transport rules.
  • Strategic sourcing logic, total cost of ownership (TCO) calculation models, global lead-time balancing, and supplier diversification.
  • Contract negotiation strategies, legal commercial clauses, incoterms, payment milestone maps, and corporate risk mitigation.
  • Commodity market analysis methods, agricultural indices, supply-demand forecasting, and microeconomic hedge tracking.
  • Vendor onboarding regulations, service level agreement (SLA) verification, and warehouse stock-turn metrics.
• Outstanding corporate communication talents, sharp commercial negotiation capabilities, strong structural problem-solving habits under manufacturing pressure, and full readiness to drive operational procurement efficiency from our Sharjah corporate headquarters.

What We Offer:

• Competitive baseline fixed monthly salary package structured from AED 5,000 to 6,000, determined entirely by past supply chain portfolio defense, live negotiation case studies, and SAP system verification challenges during panel interviews.
• An elite opportunity to capture complete sourcing custody and govern the core material supply lines for a highly respected regional agricultural brand.
• Stable career development tracks backed by active regional supply network scaling and clear internal channels for procurement directors, global logistics heads, supply chain managers, or specialists moving toward executive operational governance or corporate hr jobs and supply chain recruitment frameworks.