Procurement

• Drive year-over-year savings while ensuring quality and service level requirements are met.
• Frequently interact with senior members of the client’s organization
• Lead and participate in discussions across levels and cultures.
• Create a positive work environment and fostering cross-functional and cross-regional collaboration.
• Develop medium to long-term category strategies for a variety of Logistics sub-categories.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies through the use of the client’s strategic sourcing process.
• Identify cost savings through negotiations, event driven activities, and alternate sourcing strategies to achieve assigned cost saving goals
• Lead commercial negotiations and drafting contracts
• Manage overall supplier relationships, including supplier performance, capability development, risk mitigation, cost savings, and quality improvements.
• May manage the team’s objective setting, performance, career growth, training, and competency development
• Act as the escalation point for the source to contract (S2C) team, communicating and resolving operational issues, and escalating to the Regional Delivery Lead as necessary.
• Lead Category Managers from 3 other regions to develop, share and implement best practices, and where appropriate leveraging market intelligence to drive innovative regional and global category strategies
• Manage 1 to 2 off-shore direct reports

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