Contract Management Officer Procurement

Job Purpose

The Procurement department ensures efficient outsourcing and contracting of all aircraft-related commodities, including fleet, power plants, and equipment. Organized by commodity lines such as avionics, power plants, and airframe systems, we collaborate with engineering, finance, legal, and insurance teams to meet business needs with optimal terms. We manage supplier relationships and oversee warranty and product support, including contract administration and digital archiving. Our team negotiates extensively to secure and administer top product support, ensuring the highest standards of performance and integrity for our aircraft.

Contract Management Officer is responsible to review the Aircraft Equipment Systems contracts and ensure that all respective Engineering business groups fully utilise their own areas of product support terms and commercial incentives in order to maximise benefits to Emirates and create Contract Compliance Assurance reports.

In This Role You Will

• Conduct a periodic Contract Effectiveness Assessment of aircraft and cabin consumable and expendable items and provide to the Manager Procurement to be used as contract recommendations for new projects and contract analysis as an objective negotiation tool for new contracts and contract amendments for future component selection evaluation programmes.
• Analyse periodic supplier performance metrics and provide to the Contract Management Specialist, to be used as a tool for negotiation leverage in the selection of aircraft and system equipment programs.
• Study all Emirates aircraft equipment system purchase agreements and contracts and ensure that all available support terms are disseminated to all respective stakeholders and benefits are collected in a timely manner with the stipulated contractual grace periods.
• Negotiate supplier contract compliance disputes and provide interpretations on contractual terms for the engineering contracts.
• Run the yearly price review for Buyer Furnished Equipment and Seller Furnished Equipment agreements to verify and reconfirm that the supplier has adjusted the Prices in line with agreed adjustment percentage cap and the contractual obligations.
• Provide an efficient support to various EK Engineering business units, by recommending effective contractual solutions which support their needs in terms of contractual incentives, contract extracts, concession verification, handling light disputes and summary requests, depending on the gravity of the issue.
• Monitor in a timely manner all contractual free of charge spares and special discount percentages offered to Emirates, and ensure contractual compliance through an FOC Purchase Order, issued by the concerned Stakeholders (i.e. Component Management, Materials Provisioning and Inventory Control).
• Review and follow-up eligible man-hours reimbursements and parts replacements covered under all aircraft commitment letters (Boeing & Airbus), including service bulletin modifications and pass on the information to the Warranty Coordinators in order to initiate appropriate claims against suppliers
• Ensure all Vendor Information Approval requests raised for Vendor Management update in Ultra Main. Monitor the Vendor approval licences expiry date and engage with the respective stakeholder for renewal process and per the process and compliance procedure manuals.
• Generate reports on a regular and ad-hoc basis, related to all aspects of contract management and communicate to the Procurement team and other relevant business units. Perform other functions relative to contract management as required by the department.
  
  

• 12 Years schooling or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in technical procurement, preferrably in an Engineering/Aeronautical environment.
• Thorough knowledge of inventory systems, models and principles of forecasting, materials management and purchasing.
• Familiar with of all corresponding repair, warranty, stores, inventory, technical, production and quality interfaces.
• Familiar with aircraft systems including maintenance philosophies, practices, policies and procedures.
• Industry experience in Supply Chain is preferable (Warehouse and Logistics, Repair management, Material Planning/Support & Inventory Control, Technical Purchasing).
• Aircraft maintenance spares purchasing experience is preferable. Airlines or MRO (Maintenance Repair Organization) work experience.