Senior/ Manager (Strategic Client Procurement)

Responsibilities

• Devise and drive strategy to manage end-to-end supply chain operations including vendor management, strategic sourcing and category management. Drive, design and implementation of supply chain operational excellence and business process management
• Analyze current approaches to identify opportunities to improve speed and effectiveness of project execution, materials, sourcing, workflows, and costs.
• Deliver presentations and effectively articulate pros and cons, facts and figures, and broad business topics to various stakeholders including senior management team.
• Assist with development of the plan, budget and trends of the supply chain in line with the strategy and controlling of budget on costs as a strategic partner
• Monitoring of other SCM KPls, generate monthly reports of activity in a timely manner, respecting the deadlines, ensure data quality, and communicate effectively.
• Develop effective relationships with Executive management, Functional and Country leadership, Site Management and report regularly to these key stakeholders on progress
• Manage and develop talent within the organisation to ensure we have the appropriate resources
• supporting organisational needs and continued culture of improvement and success
• Strategic Impact
• Develop a proactive, holistic, and continuous evaluation and re-evaluation of the sourcing activities in the organization to achieve lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) along with minimal supply chain risk
• Analyse spend category, conduct market research and benchmark category trends, create and manage multi-year strategic sourcing strategies, and implement programs that provide a competitive advantage- identify synergies and develop strategies to capture cross-project opportunities
• Manage complex request for proposals (RFPs), Request for Quotation (RFQs), Request for Information (RFls) and review tender/ bids using lowest bid, lowest cost per quality point or best value analyses.
• Creates contract, negotiates terms, and implements services.
• Responsible for developing sourcing strategies for commercial procurement categories.
• Develop deep category, product and supplier knowledge to drive continuous improvement.
• Create a Valuable Business Partnership
• Provide regular high-quality category communications to relevant stakeholders to ensure the businesses have a thorough understanding of the value of procurement initiatives, industry best practices, trends and category knowledge, etc.
• Responsible for establishing and managing service level agreements and performance metrics to ensure acceptable service levels are delivered across the BUs.
• Operational Excellence (Team, Tools, Process etc.)
• Assist in leading the Strategic procurement team to actively and continuously foster a culture that places top priority on product I service quality, product / service safety, and supplier performance.
• Challenge existing processes and constantly drive an innovative culture of continuous improvement within the supply chain management team
• Undertake adequate analysis enable effective supplier negotiations which deliver a sound cost base
• Support the development of AOP and forecasts with the business; proactively develop strategies to achieve Plan and forecast
• Supplier Strategy and Performance Management
• Provide leadership to develop, maintain, and execute overall supplier and category strategies to continuously improve our capacity and capability to ensure achievements of overall business objectives
• Lead all quality aspects of Supplier Performance Management (SPM) and improvement activities including deployment of KPls, identifying improvement opportunities and regular review of performance with suppliers
• Cascade performance metrics, policies, and procedures across our supply base
• Establishes and maintains relationships with vendors. Develops and implements strategies to optimize contract negotiations, contract renewals, invoicing and conducts visits to evaluate vendor performance.
• Monitor supplier performance to program deliverables and quality. Conduct root-cause analysis and develop and implement countermeasures as needed, including ownership of our supplier Corrective Action & Preventive Action (CAPA) process.
• General Requirements
• Stay abreast of industry trends, developments of category management and strategic sourcing
• Ensure

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