Global Procurement Category Manager - Operations
A highly sought-after role where you will be responsible for:
Strategic Sourcing: Developing and executing sourcing strategies to optimize costs and ensure quality.
Manage the tendering process: End-to-end utilization of procurement tools available.
Supplier Management: Building and maintaining relationships with suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing performance.
Crossfunctional Collaboration: Working closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and align procurement strategies with business objectives.
Contract compliance: Ensuring all contracts are up-to-date and maintained to the highest level of accuracy within the CLM tool.
Cost Management: Identifying opportunities for cost savings and implementing measures to achieve them.
Risk Management: Assessing and mitigating risks associated with the supply chain.
You will work with BPO partners and the Centre of Excellence team to progress global transformational activities.
This unique role requires strong analytical skills, negotiation expertise, and the ability to manage complex projects across different regions.
Essential Job Functions
* You will have experience negotiating Global deals, for large scale complex goods and services supply contracts.
* You will understand operational functions and the importance of close collaboration and partnerships to drive aligned value.
* You will be a confident and strong communicator with effective influencing skills.
* You will deliver additional procurement synergies for the company network, derived primarily from standardization, exploiting unleveraged scale opportunities, consolidating vendor partners and distribution points, challenging current business models and technologies.
* You will provide strategic and tactical guidance on key categories, based on market trends, int/external best practices and company performance objectives.
* You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to diagnose, quantify, and address regional, national level opportunities and alternative revenue sources.
* You will unite the company's autonomous business units around common value-enhancing principles, innovative programs and offerings, and relevant macro-level opportunities.
* You will establish and maintain an effective and efficient communication with senior management.
* You will lead the effort to scale successful regional programs to multinational and global level status.
* You will support the establishment of benchmarks, performance markers and objectives.
Qualifications
* Degree in Business, Procurement or Supply Chain ideally 5 to 10 years of procurement, commercial, and contract management experience within categories outlined above.
* Ideal experience in retail or facilities management (FM), covering these categories: equipment, repair, maintenance, store supplies and direct product sourcing.
* Exp. in the Facility management industry is seen as a real bonus given the categories in scope.
* A well-documented record in unlocking commercial value.
Requirements
* Excellent commercial and operational mindset.
* Strong leadership skills and the ability to direct others according to company standards.
* Can network and establish partnerships internally and externally.
* Balance competing priorities, deadlines, and multitasking.
* Exceptional oral and written communication skills
* Advanced Experience with MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word preferred, and procurement systems such as Ariba
* Self-driven personality with stamina, and proven ability to secure execution.
* Willing and flexible regarding non-traditional working hours, due to global time-zones of colleagues and suppliers and to undertake some travel.
Benefits
These are commensurate with an organisation of this size.
There are great opportunities to develop your career within this global operation.
Skills
Negotiating, buying, purchasing, facilities management