Senior Manager - IT Procurement Category

Senior Executive – Data Analytics

Forward Deployed Senior Engineer, AI & Analytics

Cloud Engineering Manager

Division Manager - VP2

Technology Obsolescence - Task force - Data Specialist (VP1)

Specialist, Application Monitoring & Dashboard Analytics (VP2)

Lead, AI & Data Products (Technical)

Account Manager

Supply Planning Leader

Role Description: <ul><li>The Senior Manager – IT Procurement Category Management is responsible for leading strategic sourcing and category management across Information Technology.</li><li>The role owns the end-to-end IT category strategy, including spend and demand analysis, market intelligence, business case assessment, strategic sourcing, contract development, supplier relationship management and value delivery.</li><li>The position works closely with technology and corporate stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into effective sourcing strategies and commercially competitive contracts.</li><li>The successful candidate will bring strong IT procurement expertise across Software, SaaS, Cloud, Infrastructure, Managed Services, Telecommunications, Cybersecurity and IT Professional Services, with a focus on cost optimisation, service resilience, information security, data protection, compliance and total cost of ownership.</li></ul> Responsibilities: IT Category Leadership <ul><li>Lead category strategies and sourcing across Software and SaaS, Cloud and Hosting, IT Infrastructure, End-user Technology, Networks, Telecommunications, Cybersecurity, Managed Services and IT Professional Services.</li><li>Evaluate commercial and licensing models, including subscriptions, consumption-based pricing, enterprise agreements, perpetual licensing, support and maintenance.</li><li>Work with technology stakeholders to assess technical requirements, scalability, interoperability and service resilience.</li><li>Develop Statements of Work (SOWs), deliverables, acceptance criteria, SLAs, service credits, milestones and payment structures.</li><li>Apply total cost of ownership and lifecycle costing to technology procurement decisions.</li></ul> Strategic Sourcing &amp; Commercial Negotiations <ul><li>Lead complex IT sourcing projects from initial requirements and market engagement through tendering, supplier selection, contract award and implementation.</li><li>Develop appropriate sourcing strategies, including competitive tenders, framework agreements, multi-supplier arrangements and direct negotiations.</li><li>Lead high-value commercial negotiations covering pricing, licensing, service levels, risk allocation, liability, intellectual property, data protection and contractual exit provisions.</li><li>Identify supplier and technology risks, including vendor concentration, technology lock-in, cybersecurity, service continuity and obsolescence.</li></ul> Spend Analysis &amp; Cost Optimisation <ul><li>Analyse IT spend, demand, utilisation and consumption to identify cost-saving opportunities.</li><li>Establish and monitor savings and cost-avoidance targets.</li><li>Lead business cases, commercial assessments and total cost of ownership evaluations.</li><li>Develop pricing benchmarks, should-cost models and commercial scenarios.</li><li>Drive demand management, licence optimisation, supplier consolidation and standardisation initiatives.</li></ul> Market Intelligence &amp; Category Strategy <ul><li>Monitor technology market trends, supplier capabilities, commercial models and regulatory developments.</li><li>Evaluate supplier financial stability, delivery capabilities, market positioning and product roadmaps.</li><li>Develop and maintain IT category strategies, sourcing roadmaps, supplier segmentation and governance frameworks.</li><li>Conduct category reviews and quarterly business reviews, tracking cost, service, risk, innovation and compliance.</li></ul> Stakeholder &amp; Supplier Management <ul><li>Act as the primary procurement partner for designated technology stakeholders.</li><li>Engage with senior technology leadership and advise on sourcing strategies, commercial options and supplier risks.</li><li>Collaborate with IT, Finance, Legal, Information Security, Data Privacy, Enterprise Architecture and Contract Management teams.</li><li>Lead strategic supplier selection, onboarding, performance management and executive-level supplier relationships.</li><li>Monitor contractual obligations, service levels, renewal timelines and supplier improvement plans.</li></ul> People Management &amp; Governance <ul><li>Lead, coach and develop a team of IT procurement professionals.</li><li>Establish team objectives and strengthen capabilities in sourcing, negotiations, contracting, analytics and supplier governance.</li><li>Ensure compliance with procurement policies, sourcing procedures, delegated authority and financial controls.</li><li>Drive continuous improvement, accountability, collaboration and operational excellence.</li></ul> Financial Accountability <ul><li>Manage an IT procurement category spend portfolio of approximately AED 800 million.</li><li>Drive cost reduction, cost avoidance, demand optimisation and measurable value delivery.</li><li>Ensure compliance with approved budgets, financial controls and savings-tracking requirements.</li></ul> Requirements: Qualifications &amp; Experience Education <ul><li>Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or a related discipline.</li><li>A postgraduate or advanced degree is preferred.</li></ul> Experience <ul><li>8–12+ years of experience in procurement or category management, with substantial exposure to IT procurement.</li><li>3–5+ years in leadership roles managing complex, high-value IT procurement programmes.</li><li>Demonstrated experience in developing and executing IT category strategies.</li><li>Proven track record in managing IT contracts, supplier negotiations, savings delivery and commercial risk.</li><li>Experience working with senior technology stakeholders is essential.</li><li>Middle East or UAE experience is advantageous but not mandatory.</li></ul> Preferred Certifications <ul><li>CIPS or ISM CPSM.</li><li>ITIL, COBIT, FinOps, Software Asset Management, Cloud or Cybersecurity certifications.</li><li>PMP, PRINCE2 or Lean Six Sigma certifications are advantageous.</li><li>5. Technical Skills &amp; Competencies</li><li>IT procurement and technology category management.</li><li>Strategic sourcing and complex commercial negotiations.</li><li>Software, SaaS, Cloud and IT Infrastructure procurement.</li><li>Cybersecurity, Telecommunications and Managed Services procurement.</li><li>Supplier relationship and performance management.</li><li>IT commercial models, software licensing and contract management.</li><li>Spend analysis, financial modelling and total cost of ownership.</li><li>Statements of Work (SOWs), SLAs, KPIs and performance-based contracting.</li><li>Procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba and Coupa.</li><li>Contract law, information security, data privacy and risk management.</li><li>Project and change management.</li><li>6. Behavioural Competencies</li><li>Strategic thinking and commercial acumen.</li><li>Strong communication and presentation skills.</li><li>Stakeholder management and influencing ability.</li><li>Leadership, coaching and team development.</li><li>Customer focus and solution-oriented thinking.</li><li>Collaboration and relationship building.</li><li>Innovation and continuous improvement.</li><li>Strong execution and accountability.</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>The Business Intelligence &amp; Insights Consultant will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-level BI dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions.</li><li>The role will focus on translating business requirements into actionable insights using Power BI and other data analytics tools, supporting business functions such as Finance, Procurement, and Human Capital Management (HCM).</li><li>The ideal candidate should have strong technical expertise in Power BI, DAX, SQL, and data modelling, along with the ability to engage with business stakeholders and support data-driven decision-making.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Design, develop, and maintain interactive Power BI dashboards, reports, scorecards, and paginated reports.</li><li>Gather business requirements and translate them into technical specifications and reporting solutions.</li><li>Develop data models, DAX calculations, Power Query transformations, and SQL queries.</li><li>Implement Row-Level Security (RLS), Object-Level Security (OLS), drill-through, and dynamic filtering.</li><li>Analyze business data to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and actionable insights.</li><li>Develop KPI dashboards and performance tracking reports for business stakeholders.</li><li>Ensure data accuracy, consistency, report performance, and adherence to BI standards.</li><li>Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to validate data pipelines and source-to-report accuracy.</li><li>Support self-service BI adoption by conducting user training and developing documentation.</li><li>Engage with stakeholders, manage reporting requirements, conduct UAT, and continuously improve BI solutions.</li><li>Required Technical Skills</li><li>Strong hands-on experience with Power BI, including dashboards, reports, DAX, and Power Query (M).</li><li>Good knowledge of SQL and data extraction techniques.</li><li>Experience in data modelling, including Star and Snowflake schemas.</li><li>Knowledge of Power BI Service, deployment, RLS, and OLS.</li><li>Experience with KPI reporting, data visualization, and business analytics.</li><li>Advanced Excel skills.</li><li>Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Python, or Tableau is an advantage.</li><li>Familiarity with Finance, Procurement, or HCM data domains is preferred.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelors degree in IT, Computer Science, Business, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.</li><li>4–7 years of relevant experience in BI development, Power BI reporting, data visualization, or analytics.</li><li>Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) certification required or to be obtained within 12 months.</li><li>Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer (DP-600) certification is preferred.</li></ul> Key Competencies <ul><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.</li><li>Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.</li><li>Strong attention to detail and data accuracy.</li><li>Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.</li><li>Good presentation and data storytelling skills.</li><li>Ability to manage multiple reporting requirements and deadlines.</li><li>Continuous learning and improvement mindset</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Deploy and Land: <ul><li>Own end-to-end delivery of AI and analytics products at stations in your region.</li><li>Cover discovery, scoping, development, integration, user acceptance testing (UAT), hypercare and rollout.</li><li>Embed with operations.</li><li>Participate in business stand-ups.</li><li>Visit the ramp and cargo floor.</li><li>Understand local data realities rather than making assumptions.</li><li>Ship production code in Python and comparable stacks against live flight, cargo, workforce and equipment data.</li><li>Avoid handing over prototypes for someone else to productionise.</li><li>Scale deployment by reducing the cost and time required to deploy solutions across additional stations.</li><li>Achieve this through reusable integrations, configuration and runbooks.</li></ul> Build on the Platform, Not Around It: <ul><li>Consume data through the semantic layer and governed data platform.</li><li>Avoid parallel pipelines, local definitions and workarounds.</li><li>Apply Centre of Excellence (CoE) patterns and guardrails.</li><li>Follow reference architectures, AI registry, human-in-the-loop controls, access and residency rules.</li><li>Integrate GenAI and ML into workflows.</li><li>Implement RAG and retrieval patterns.</li><li>Implement agentic and tool-use patterns.</li><li>Apply evaluation frameworks.</li><li>Establish observability.</li><li>Maintain production cost control.</li></ul> Make Insight Self-Service: <ul><li>Build data products, not report queues.</li><li>Design governed, reusable datasets and semantic models.</li><li>Enable operations teams, airlines and forwarders to answer their own questions.</li><li>Put insight in front of the customer.</li><li>Deliver station and customer-facing analytics.</li><li>Enable natural-language access to operational data.</li><li>Ensure appropriate access, residency and confidentiality controls.</li><li>Design for the user, not the requester.</li><li>Ensure every product identifies the decision it changes and the person responsible for making it.</li><li>Instrument usage.</li><li>Retire products that are not used.</li><li>Consolidate fragmented reporting rather than extending it.</li></ul> Close the Loop: <ul><li>Feed field learnings back.</li><li>Convert integration problems into hardened patterns for the CoE and requirements for the platform team.</li><li>Own adoption and benefits.</li><li>Instrument deployments.</li><li>Track usage and benefits against the business case.</li><li>Report results accurately.</li><li>Be the technical face to the business and customers.</li><li>Translate between operations, the CoE and platform engineering.</li><li>Success in the First 12 Months</li></ul> Requirements: Experience: <ul><li>6+ years of experience in software or ML engineering.</li><li>Experience must include customer-facing or business-embedded delivery.</li><li>Demonstrated track record of scoping and delivering complex systems end to end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.</li><li>Ability to remain accountable after go-live.</li><li>Production experience with LLM or ML systems.</li><li>Experience with prompt and agent design.</li><li>Experience with RAG.</li><li>Experience with evaluation frameworks.</li><li>Experience with deployment at scale.</li><li>Understanding of how model behaviour influences product experience.</li><li>Strong Python and API development skills.</li><li>Experience with FastAPI or equivalent.</li><li>Comfortable working across backend and frontend development.</li><li>Ability to build a working system independently.</li><li>Practical experience with Docker.</li><li>Practical experience with Kubernetes.</li><li>Practical experience with CI/CD.</li><li>Practical experience with cloud data platforms.</li><li>Experience integrating batch and real-time data against complex enterprise data sources.</li><li>Strong understanding of analytics.</li><li>Experience with semantic and dimensional modelling.</li><li>Knowledge of modern BI.</li><li>Experience designing data products that non-technical and external users can operate independently.</li><li>Aviation, logistics or complex operations experience is advantageous but not mandatory.</li><li>Willingness to learn operations directly from the operational floor is essential.</li></ul> Qualifications: <ul><li>Bachelors, MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Lead the engineering, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise cloud platforms across Microsoft Azure (primary), AWS, and GCP, including landing zones, networking, platform services, and secure cloud foundations.</li><li>Build and maintain standardized delivery pathways, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) modules, GitOps practices, and environment automation to enable consistent, scalable, and compliant deployments.</li><li>Drive an automation-first engineering model, reducing manual intervention through policy-as-code, automated workflows, AI-assisted engineering, and agent-based execution of routine operational activities.</li><li>Develop and mature AIOps capabilities, including anomaly detection, intelligent alert correlation, automated remediation, and measurable reduction of operational toil.</li><li>Design and operate infrastructure supporting enterprise AI workloads, including GPU/accelerated compute, managed AI services, model serving and inference endpoints, vector and retrieval services, and secure AI landing zones.</li><li>Partner with Data &amp; AI teams to provide scalable, secure infrastructure for AI solutions while managing capacity, quotas, workload isolation, and AI infrastructure consumption and cost reporting.</li><li>Lead cloud reliability, observability, and resilience, establishing service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, metrics, logging, tracing, recovery playbooks, and validated RTO/RPO requirements.</li><li>Implement cloud security, identity, and compliance guardrails through secure baselines, policy-as-code, workload identities, privileged access controls, and Microsoft Entra ID integration.&nbsp;</li><li>Maintain platform compliance with applicable data protection and industry standards, including GDPR, CCPA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2, in partnership with Global Cybersecurity and other governance teams.</li><li>Execute FinOps and cloud optimization initiatives, including tagging and cost allocation, rightsizing, scheduling, storage optimization, reservations, savings plans, committed spend, forecasting, and consumption reporting.</li><li>Support the organizations cloud-first transformation, including modernization and consolidation of VMware workloads and rationalization of AWS and GCP environments around strategic business requirements.</li><li>Lead and develop a globally distributed cloud engineering team, establishing engineering standards, structured code and design reviews, operational discipline, continuous learning, and accountability for cloud providers and engineering partners.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.</li><li>10+ years of progressive cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 3 years leading engineering teams with accountability for production platform services.</li><li>Expert-level, hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, with demonstrated experience building and operating environments across AWS and GCP.</li><li>Deep experience with platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code, including Terraform, Bicep, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, landing zones, and automated provisioning.</li><li>Demonstrated experience implementing cloud automation and AI-enabled operations, including AIOps, AI-assisted engineering, or agent-based automation.</li><li>Hands-on experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure, including GPU/accelerated compute, managed AI services, model serving, or AI workload platforms.</li><li>Strong production experience with Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, or GKE), cloud security, identity, observability, and reliability practices.</li><li>Experience leading distributed engineering teams and supporting highly available, business-critical technology environments.</li></ul> Preferred Skills <ul><li>Professional certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, CKA, Terraform Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner.</li><li>Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, workload identity, privileged access, Conditional Access, zero-trust principles, and policy-as-code.</li><li>Experience with observability and SRE practices, including Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, SLOs, and error budgets.</li><li>Working knowledge of FinOps, cloud cost optimization, tagging strategies, reservations, savings plans, and consumption reporting.</li><li>Experience migrating and modernizing VMware and on-premises workloads into cloud environments.</li><li>Experience leading global teams across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.</li><li>Experience within aviation, transportation, logistics, field operations, or other 24/7/365 operational environments.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Service Operations Management: <ul><li>Lead and manage the First Recovery (L1 Application Support) team comprising approximately 19 analysts.</li><li>Ensure seamless delivery of 16x6 operational support (Monday through Saturday) and weekend coverage during Mainframe and AS400 IPL activities.</li><li>Drive effective handling of incidents, service requests, alerts, and operational tasks.</li><li>Ensure incidents are prioritized, triaged, and assigned appropriately to meet SLA commitments.</li><li>Act as the primary escalation point for critical incidents and major service disruptions.</li></ul> Incident &amp; Request Management: <ul><li>Drive achievement of the teams key KPI of maintaining a minimum 60% First Recovery Resolution Rate for all incidents received by the L1 support team.</li><li>Monitor incident trends and recurring issues, initiating preventive and corrective actions.</li><li>Ensure timely escalation of unresolved incidents to L2/L3 support teams.</li><li>Conduct incident reviews and implement lessons learned to improve service quality.</li></ul> Application &amp; Infrastructure Health Monitoring: <ul><li>Oversee proactive application and infrastructure health checks.</li><li>Ensure monitoring activities are performed consistently and operational issues are detected early.</li><li>Work with infrastructure, middleware, database, and application teams to improve system stability and availability.</li><li>Drive automation and operational improvements where appropriate.</li></ul> Knowledge Management: <ul><li>Establish and maintain a comprehensive Knowledge Base (KB) repository.</li><li>Ensure all recurring incidents, service requests, troubleshooting procedures, and operational runbooks are documented.</li><li>Promote knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.</li><li>Drive reduction of repeat incidents through effective documentation and process improvements.</li></ul> People Leadership: <ul><li>Manage, coach, and develop a team of 15–20 direct reports.</li><li>Perform resource planning, scheduling, workload distribution, and succession planning.</li><li>Conduct performance management, mentoring, and career development activities.</li><li>Foster a culture of accountability, customer focus, collaboration, and continuous improvement.</li><li>Ensure adequate staffing and capabilities are maintained to support business requirements.</li></ul> Stakeholder Management: <ul><li>Engage with application owners, infrastructure teams, business users, and senior management on operational matters.</li><li>Provide regular reporting on KPIs, incident trends, service improvements, and team performance.</li><li>Participate in governance meetings and operational reviews.</li></ul> Continuous Improvement: <ul><li>Identify opportunities to improve operational processes, tooling, and monitoring capabilities.</li><li>Drive reduction in incident volumes through root cause analysis and preventive actions.</li><li>Support operational transformation initiatives and service maturity improvements.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.</li><li>Minimum 8–12 years of IT experience with at least 3–5 years in a people management role.</li><li>Proven experience managing 15–20 direct reports in an Application Support environment.</li><li>Strong background in L1 and/or L2 Application Support.</li><li>Experience managing shift-based operational teams.</li><li>Demonstrated experience in Incident Management, Service Request Management, and Operational Support.</li></ul>

﻿Responsibilities: Data Collection &amp; Integration: Collect and consolidate data from multiple sources, including: <ul><li>CMDB platforms (e.g., Remedy)</li><li>IT Asset Management (ITAM) systems</li><li>Vendor lifecycle and support data</li><li>Security, vulnerability, and patching sources</li><li>Ensure data consistency and alignment across asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories</li><li>Validate data accuracy, completeness, and currency</li></ul> Technology Obsolescence Analysis: <ul><li>Identify EOL, EOS, and obsolete technologies across hardware, software, OS, databases, middleware, and cloud services</li><li>Analyze lifecycle risks by technology type, vendor, business unit, and criticality</li><li>Support prioritization of remediation based on risk, business impact, and exposure</li></ul> Reporting &amp; Dashboarding: <ul><li>Design, develop, and maintain interactive dashboards and reports using:</li><li>Power BI / Tableau</li></ul> Create Standard Views Covering: <ul><li>Obsolescence risk heatmaps</li><li>Aging and lifecycle timelines</li><li>Remediation progress and trends</li><li>Compliance and audit‑ready metrics</li><li>Enable self‑service analytics for stakeholders where appropriate</li></ul> CMDB &amp; Asset Management Support: <ul><li>Support the alignment of CMDB data with actual deployed assets</li><li>Identify gaps, redundancies, or inaccuracies in configuration and asset records</li><li>Drive improvements in asset lifecycle tagging, ownership, and criticality classification</li><li>Collaborate with ITSM, ITAM, and platform teams to improve data quality and governance</li></ul> Stakeholder &amp; Decision Support: <ul><li>Provide insights and analysis to:</li><li>Domain leads and task force leads</li><li>Project managers and delivery teams</li><li>Risk, security, and audit stakeholders</li><li>Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for non‑technical audiences</li><li>Support business case development and roadmap planning with data evidence</li></ul> Data Governance &amp; Continuous Improvement: <ul><li>Define and document data definitions, metrics, and reporting standards</li><li>Automate data refreshes and reporting pipelines where possible</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve lifecycle visibility and predictive risk analysis</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>5–8+ years of experience in a data analyst or reporting role within IT or technology functions</li><li>Experience supporting modernization, risk, lifecycle, or transformation initiatives is a strong advantage</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field</li><li>Power BI or Tableau certification</li><li>ITIL or IT Asset Management certification is a plus</li><li>Data &amp; Analytics Skills</li><li>Strong experience in data analysis and visualization</li><li>Hands on expertise in:</li><li>Power BI (DAX, data modeling, performance optimization)</li><li>Tableau (dashboards, calculated fields, storytelling)</li><li>Strong SQL skills for querying large datasets</li><li>Experience working with structured and semi structured data</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Gather and analyze user requirements for dashboard, monitoring, and reporting enhancements.</li><li>Design, develop, and maintain operational dashboards and monitoring solutions based on business and technical requirements.</li><li>Create, modify, and optimize queries to extract, analyze, and present data for business and operational reporting.</li><li>Develop reports and analytics that provide actionable insights into system performance, availability, and operational health.</li><li>Support and administer enterprise monitoring tools such as Splunk and Geneos.</li><li>Troubleshoot monitoring alerts, dashboard discrepancies, and reporting-related issues.</li><li>Participate in system implementation, enhancement, testing, and deployment activities.</li><li>Ensure compliance with organizational standards, governance, and audit requirements.</li><li>Prepare and maintain technical documentation, user guides, and operational procedures.</li><li>To identify area of monitoring coverage to be improved; and work with relevant teams to enable monitoring solution to improve monitoring coverage.</li><li>To identify area of triage efficiency to be improved; and work with relevant teams to implement solution to improve triage efficiency.</li><li>To identify area of automation of service recovery ability to be improved; and work with relevant teams to implement solution to automate service recovery ability.</li><li>To work with various stakeholders (i.e., service automation, level 2 (group) and level 3 production support etc) to implement application monitoring, service end-to-end dashboard, and automation of service recovery.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Strong hunter mentality with a passion for creating new business opportunities and opening new partner relationships.</li><li>Experience in business development, channel sales, partner sales, technology sales, or customer acquisition roles.</li><li>Comfort with outbound prospecting, cold outreach, networking, pipeline generation, and opportunity development.</li><li>Understanding of cloud technologies, managed services, software licensing, cybersecurity, or broader IT solutions.</li><li>Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence stakeholders and build strategic business relationships.</li><li>Self-motivated, resilient, and driven by achieving growth targets, partner acquisition goals, and business outcomes.</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>The organization is investing in a small number of high-impact AI and data products intended to operate across its global station network. </li><li>Each requires a single accountable owner who can hold the technical architecture and the product direction together, from first implementation through multi-station scale.</li><li>We are looking for a Lead, AI &amp; Data Products to take that ownership.&nbsp;</li><li>This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer or applied scientist who has moved into product leadership, not a product manager with adjacent technical exposure.</li><li>You will be expected to reason about model design, data architecture and production trade-offs at the level of the engineers building the system, and to hold the roadmap, business case and stakeholder relationships at the level of the executives funding it.&nbsp;</li><li>The role operates horizontally.</li><li>You will act as the single-threaded owner for assigned initiatives, working with the AI Centre of Excellence on patterns and feasibility, with Data Engineering and Platform on the data foundation, with Operational Excellence and the business product owners on process change, and with the forward deployed engineers in region on station rollout.</li></ul> This is a hands-on role. <ul><li>You will review and contribute to code, make architectural calls, and spend meaningful time at the frontline understanding operations directly rather than through documentation.</li></ul> Responsibilities: Technical product ownership <ul><li>Own the product end to end for assigned AI and data initiatives: discovery, technical architecture, roadmap, delivery sequencing and global rollout readiness.</li><li>Act as single-threaded owner. One person accountable for whether the product works, is adopted, and delivers its business case across stations and regions.</li><li>Convert programs into products.&nbsp;</li><li>Move initiatives currently run as projects onto a product footing with a roadmap, a lifecycle, named users and a benefit measure.</li><li>Make the build decisions: in-house, CoE pattern, capability center, or vendor. Own the trade-off and the consequences.</li></ul> Technical depth <ul><li>Set the architecture for AI and data products spanning forecasting, optimization, simulation, GenAI and agentic workflows, and defend it in technical review.</li><li>Work in the codebase. Review designs and pull requests, prototype where it resolves ambiguity faster than discussion, and contribute directly when delivery depends on it.</li><li>Own production quality: model robustness, explainability, evaluation, monitoring, latency and cost in service, not only at launch.</li><li>Build on the platform. Consume governed data through the semantic layer and apply CoE guardrails rather than constructing parallel capability.</li></ul> Business and delivery leadership <ul><li>Translate operational problems into technical solutions and, equally, translate technical constraints into terms operations and commercial leadership can act on.</li><li>Own the business case with the business product owner: the benefit hypothesis, the measurement approach and the reported outcome.</li><li>Lead without direct authority across engineering, data science, operations and regional teams, including delivery through the capability center and vendor partners.</li><li>Work from the frontline.</li><li>Regular Gemba at stations, with operational understanding built firsthand.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>10+ years in engineering, applied AI or data science, with a substantial portion spent building and running systems in production rather than specifying them.</li><li>Demonstrable record of owning technical products end to end and scaling them beyond a first implementation into multi site or multi-market operation.</li><li>Depth in one or more of: forecasting (time series, probabilistic, hierarchical), optimization (MIP, LP, heuristics), simulation, or production GenAI and agentic systems, with working literacy across the others.</li><li>Strong Python and SQL, with practical command of the modern data and ML stack: cloud data platforms, pipelines, model deployment, evaluation and monitoring.</li><li>Experience influencing senior stakeholders and operating across engineering, operations and commercial functions without direct reporting lines.</li><li>Aviation, logistics or complex physical operations exposure is an advantage, not a prerequisite.</li></ul> Qualifications <ul><li>Bachelors, MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Operations Research or a related field. Personal characteristics</li><li>Technical credibility earned through building, not through managing builders.</li><li>Judgement on trade-offs between scope, speed and quality, with the confidence to decide under incomplete information.</li><li>Clear communication with engineers, operators and executives, adjusting register without losing precision.</li><li>Comfort with ambiguity and being accountable for outcomes rather than activity.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Manage key accounts and develop strong relationships with customer stakeholders.</li><li>Identify and pursue business development opportunities to grow revenue in the Aerospace, Defense, and Marine sectors.</li><li>Manage direct global accounts and OEM business.</li><li>Provide technical solutions to government, PSU, and defense-sector customers.</li><li>Manage customer communication and maintain regular contact with key decision-makers.</li><li>Prepare and manage quotations, proposals, offers, and project contracts.</li><li>Lead commercial discussions, pricing, and contract negotiations.</li><li>Collaborate with channel and distribution partners to support business growth.</li><li>Identify customer needs and develop solution-oriented proposals.</li><li>Generate new business opportunities and close direct sales deals.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>B.Tech in Mechanical, Electrical, or Electronics Engineering.</li><li>At least 5 years of relevant experience in a customer-facing role.</li><li>Experience in key account management and business development.</li><li>Proven experience handling direct OEM business.</li><li>Demonstrated success closing direct business deals.</li><li>Experience preparing offers, quotations, proposals, and presentations.</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and presentation tools.</li><li>Required Skills and Competencies</li><li>Strong customer relationship management skills.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.</li><li>Strong influencing, selling, and negotiation abilities.</li><li>Solution-oriented approach and basic problem-solving skills.</li><li>Creative approach to identifying business opportunities.</li><li>Resilience and adaptability in a changing business environment.</li><li>Ability to work effectively with customers, internal teams, and channel partners.</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>Supply Planning Leader is accountable for end-to-end supply planning across an assigned product portfolio and multiple distribution centers.</li><li>The role ensures timely, cost-effective product availability while balancing customer service, inventory health, working capital, capacity, and logistics performance. This leader converts demand into feasible supply plans, manages risks and constraints, and drives cross-functional execution and continuous improvement in a global, matrix environment.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Develop and execute supply plans aligned with customer demand, inventory targets, business priorities, capacity, material availability, supplier constraints, and transportation lead times.</li><li>Ensure finished-goods availability and timely replenishment across distribution centers, regional warehouses, and source plants by driving MRP recommendations and monitoring plan adherence.</li><li>Lead weekly and monthly supply reviews and actively support S&amp;OP and S&amp;OE by providing supply status, reviewing demand outlook, recommending trade-offs, and driving approved actions.</li><li>Optimize safety stock, MRP policies, inventory deployment, stock coverage, turns, availability, and working capital while maintaining healthy inventory levels.</li><li>Manage phase-in and phase-out planning for the assigned portfolio.</li><li>Identify demand-supply gaps, capacity bottlenecks, material constraints, revenue risks, and service opportunities; lead root-cause analysis, recovery plans, prioritization, and allocation decisions.</li><li>Support customer-service targets, including Fill Rate, STR, OTIF, and PP Confirmation, by aligning commitments with realistic supply capabilities.</li><li>Partner with Demand Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Customer Service, Product Management, and Sales on material availability, inventory strategy, supply risks, and executive reviews.</li><li>Prepare monthly and annual inventory and freight projections and improve sourcing and transportation economics, including ocean buying from source.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field.</li><li>10+ years of experience in supply planning, materials planning, inventory management, manufacturing, distribution, OEM, automotive, industrial, or aftermarket environments.</li><li>At least 4 years of team-leadership experience, with demonstrated stakeholder management, influencing, communication, and problem-solving capability.</li><li>Experience working effectively in fast-paced, global, matrix, and ambiguous environments.</li><li>Strong knowledge of supply and demand planning, forecasting, inventory optimization, capacity and constraint management, distribution networks, transportation, warehousing, and S&amp;OP/S&amp;OE.</li><li>Proficiency in SAP MRP and inventory planning, SAP IBP, and advanced Microsoft Excel; strong Microsoft PowerPoint and analytics capability.</li></ul>

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