Procurement Officer - August 2025
Dubai British School Emirates Hills
United Arab Emirates
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 18 August 2025
- Apply by:
- 30 July 2025
Job overview
- Achieve optimal value for money whilst maintaining high standards.
- Enhancement of procurement and sourcing strategies.
- Assist in the selection of appropriate suppliers and contractors, to promote good procurement practice with due regard to sustainability, ethical purchasing standards and cost analysis.
- Work with internal stakeholders (teachers or operations staff) to determine procurement needs, ensure high quality standards are maintained and manage delivery requirements.
- Responsible for order placement timing, supply/demand alignment, material replenishment and supplier performance.
- Monitor, evaluate and improve supplier performance, according to an appropriate Service Level Agreement, on a continuous basis.
- Payment terms negotiation, optimization and management.
- Receive orders for various departments.
- Initiate and keep track of orders.
- Reconcile or resolve order discrepancies with suppliers.
- Coordinate annual overseas orders.
- Accounts to be submitted for payment to vendors on time.
- Receiving and Closing all purchase orders within vendor payment terms.
- Asset Management and control.
- Oversee and manage the procurement processes.
- Monitor expenditure and income generation.
- Provide regular financial reports as required.
- Ensure optimal use of budgets.
- Provide all information required by the internal and external auditors.
- Ensure all procurement is in line with the approved policies and procedures.
- Excellent collaborative skills and able to quickly establish effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrates a proactive approach.
- Outstanding interpersonal and decision-making skills.
- Demonstrates a proactive approach.
- Ability to problem solve and collaborate with various stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes.
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About Dubai British School Emirates Hills
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- Dubai British School Emirates Hills
- Springs 3, Emirates Hills, PO Box 37828
- Dubai
- United Arab Emirates
Who are we?
Taaleem was founded in 2004 in Dubai and is one of the largest education providers in the United Arab Emirates with more than 9,000 students attending our 11 international schools and pre-schools in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Our main activity is the development and management of high quality early childhood, primary and secondary schools in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
We also only recruit the best international teachers who can deliver our international curricula in a creative and highly engaging manner. Taaleem, which means 'education' in Arabic, is committed to inspiring students helping them to identify and develop their passions and talents.
Dubai British School
Dubai British School is a thriving British international school, located in The Springs area of Dubai’s Emirates Hills. A Taaleem school, DBS offers high quality education to over a thousand students aged 3 to 18. Dubai British School is fully accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS)
Our Curriculum
The curriculum at DBS is modelled on the National Curriculum for England, significantly enhanced by ‘Wow Learning’, the study of Arabic throughout and a challenging set of GCSE and GCE A Level courses from Year 10 to Year 13. We welcome a wide range of students to study a curriculum, which is designed to extend and excite all of them, whatever their interests or ability. The opportunities that students enjoy outside the classroom are just as important as the main curriculum and we offer an extensive and varied extra-curricular activities programme (ECA).
DBS Facilities
DBS offers a range of different facilities in addition to bright and airy classrooms: Performing Arts Theatre, Tennis Court, Basketball Court, Swimming Pool, Sports Hall, Football Pitch, Dining Hall, Foundation Playground, Primary Playground, Primary ICT Suites, Primary Library, Secondary Library, Secondary ICT Suite, Interactive Whiteboards, Sixth Form Common Room, Extended Learning Rooms, Conference Room, Design and Technology Suite, Art Studio and Pottery Room, Science Labs, Music Room, peripatetic Rooms for individual Music Lessons, wireless Internet throughout.
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