Procurement Manager
Full Time
Job Description
- Deliver on specifics within the local Procurement team strategy
- Meet and exceed key performance targets
- To build strategies & plans to ensure the right volume is given to the right suppliers at the right price and to review these plans on an ongoing basis
- Work with key stakeholders and SMEs to ensure that procurement best practices and policies are followed and maintained across the business
- Deliver value-add reporting to the department and wider business
- Be responsible for the commercial terms & contracts that are agreed with suppliers across Direct channels
- Deliver real bottom-line savings to the business and monitor their delivery with the Finance department
- Seek and obtain market leading commercial terms, always keeping in mind the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Ensure that performance standards for suppliers are set reflecting the needs of company today and in the future
- Become a category expert and identify, evaluate and implement opportunities for improvement in supply arrangements and procedures
- Keep up to date with latest procurement and best practices
- Undertake regular benchmarking to ensure that best terms are achieved
- Work with the legal team to ensure company is always protected through suitable contractual arrangements
- Identify, evaluate and manage risks within area of responsibility
- Represent company, at all levels, within the supplier base
- Keep up to date with Supply market analysis
- Undertake such other procurement duties as directed by the Procurement from time to time
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experience of Procurement in a blue-chip procurement environment
- Experience of procuring a wide range of products, services and commodities
- Proven track record in cost analysis and delivery of real cost reduction
- Able to agree and work to challenging deadlines
- Developed negotiating skills
- Able to strategically manage a category or categories whilst being able to deliver tactical solutions
- To work in a team oriented environment where influencing and persuasion skills are of paramount importance
- Excellent communicator and relationship builder
- High achievement drive with a proven ability to deliver results
- Strong commercial and financial acumen with a natural ability to recognize effective deals
- Proven ability to manage and follow procedures, recognize dependencies, whilst mitigating risks
- Customer focused ability to deliver the quality required by the organization whilst delivering the best cost
- Strategic vision which can see beyond the price
- Ability to manage several different projects/negotiations concurrently and to work at pace to deliver
- Act as an ambassador of the company
- High level of integrity and commitment to corporate values
- Ability to analyze data and information and to formulate action plans
- Change management experience & ability to deliver change and the benefit this can bring
- Ability to manage a supplier base and supplier personnel up to Director Level
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