Do you have a passion for procurement activities? Are you an excellent communicator with exceptional diplomatic skills, achievement oriented, and curious to broaden your professional perspective? Do you want to make a difference in our organization and contribute to building something new? If the answer is yes to all these questions, then we would like to hear from you.
Rise to the Challenge:
Optimize local procurement of products and services by liaising with the local management team to understand their current and anticipated demand or needs, deploying local sourcing strategies, optimizing the local supplier base and managing local and cluster suppliers.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Accountability 1
Stakeholder Engagement & Customer Centricity
Create and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders: understand internal and external stakeholders’ objectives and needs; advice stakeholders on ways as to add tangible value to their objectives and contribute to the bottom line; lead cross-functional projects to increase spend effectiveness or generate process improvements.
ACCOUNTABILITY 2
Industry, Market and Supplier Strategy
Conduct and interpret industry, market and relevant macro-economic and supplier research for the assigned sub-categories: at market or cluster level and for the assigned categories, build industry know-how on markets, suppliers and products/services and provide recommendations from market analyses and benchmarks to internal stakeholders.
ACCOUNTABILITY 3
Demand Management and Sourcing Plan
Contribute to regional and global sourcing strategy definition by providing the requested inputs.
Apply deep knowledge of assigned categories and subcategories to develop and implement relevant action plans. Monitor the implementation of sourcing strategies and processes across market / cluster and generate process improvements and economies of scale.
