Senior Procurement Specialist - Catering

• Closing date: 15-Oct-2025

About the role

You will assist in managing all inflight products and catering related procurement requirements required from the relevant stakeholders, helping to set category strategy, interfacing with internal customers and suppliers to ensure best value for the company in line with its strategic, financial and operational requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities

• To facilitate enhancing procurement processes, systems, policies and procedures to enable procurement department to offer best in class procurement to user departments across QR and subsidiaries.
• Assist with Category planning, analysis and management through the provision of strategic analysis
• Managing and optimizing supplier performance, and reduction in total cost of ownership.
• Negotiations planning and execution with suppliers on costs, commercial and contractual terms.
• Assisting in definition of supply strategy for relevant product categories to ensure risks are mitigated and QR vision is achieved.
• Responsible for Tender management and administration for high value and risk projects, running process, troubleshooting and interfacing with all relevant parties.
• Assisting in setting and achieving of Category KPls and provide competitive advantage.
• Review and endorse documents submitted by staff for strategy, compliance and best practice.

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Together, everything is possible

About You

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business or a Related Field with minimum 6 years of job-related experience
• Procurement related vocational qualification and/or educational credits such as CIPS/CPSM.
• Proven experience in sourcing products and catering related procurement with main focus on aviation or related industry catering and customer experience products.
• Proven records in Category planning, analysis and management
• Proven records of building internal stakeholders’ relationship by working together to optimize and leverage volumes and specifications, challenging these where required.
• Compliance at all times with the organization policies and processes.
• Good understanding and previous experience in setting and achieving category KPIs to achieve targets and provide competitive advantage.

About Qatar Airways Group

Our story started with four aircrafts. 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.

So, whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.