Category Procurement Specialist - Indirect
The main purpose of the Category Procurement Specialist – Indirect role is one the one hand to continue learning and develop your professional skills and experience within Category Procurement and support the European Category procurement team implement and on the other hand start to build & execute procurement strategies within specific (sub)categories.
You are expected to take ownership for your results and you develop and build strong relationships with your internal stakeholders and supply base to reach individual objectives in the key Procurement workstreams and support the completion of departmental objectives.
Key Accountabilities
Support Procurement (Indirect) team
• Support with Market & Financial analysis for different sub-categories to support the strategy development and review.
• Support supplier management and contract performance management activities (e.g. mapping As-Is in Europe, create spend / activity and KPI reports).
• Support in tender processes.
• Support in (customer) Projects.
• Support on structuring spend data and category analysis.
• Support & lead various Transformation projects.
• Drive enhanced usage of various tools (e.g. Monday, IRM).
(sub) Category ownership
• Being the Point of Contact for procurement in TBD (sub)categories.
• Business partner with your stakeholder group on a tactical/operational level and identifying their business needs by acting as their partner on procurement topics.
• Implement and execute procurement strategy within the strategy of the Procurement Leadership Team.
• Being visible and accessible in the TBD categories.
• Lead projects in the TBD categories.
• Align and formalize collaboration with Business Procurement for TBD categories.
• Participate in cross functional teams as appropriate, provide a comprehensive review of: categories, supply base, cost drivers, market trends, supplier rationalization plans, supply positioning, sourcing strategies, and strategic actions.
• Maintain timely and accurate knowledge of the TBD categories and procurement landscape and maintain accurate up-to-date cost records and analysis of trends.
• Manage supplier relationships on strategic/tactical level for the TBD categories.
• Manage the contracts on a strategic/tactical level for the TBD categories.
• Generate and maintain accurate records according to established procedures for quotes, cost estimates, items, tooling, purchase orders, supplier performance, and commodity spend analysis, etc.
• Initiate annual cost reduction strategies, including but not limited to: negotiate pricing ensuring the lowest price up-front, source new business per the approved commodity strategy, implement packaging and logistics improvements, etc. Identify potential commodity and/or supplier opportunity areas (e.g. standardization, supplier consolidation, new technologies, etc.), communicate potential opportunities internally and initiate activities to assemble appropriate resources to pursue opportunity areas
• Make periodic visits to suppliers, perform risk assessments, onsite surveys, periodic supplier performance reviews, supplier development plans. Maintain, re-evaluate, and develop robust risk management systems to promote appropriate competition and ensure suppliers continuity.
• Analyze and validate contracts and agreements and communicate appropriately with Legal Department for full approval.
• Interface with supplier development for continuous improvement in the supply base, including but not limited to: managing the supply base for a given commodity, focus on continuous improvement in quality, delivery, and value. Identify and develop suppliers with innovative technologies that reduce cost and increase our competitiveness.
Job Context
Category procurement (central expertise): Develop, lead maintain expert knowledge of respective procurement commodity. Focusing on Strategic sourcing, supplier management and performance, risk management and commercial negotiations.
The Category Procurement Specialist – Indirect reports into the Category Procurement Director – Indirect or the Category Procurement Manager – Indirect.
As a Category Procurement Specialist – Indirect within the Central European Procurement Team you are supporting the whole Category Procurement Indirect team and for your TBD categories own Procurement activities in the area of Category Management, Sourcing/Tendering, Negotiation, Contracting, Contract Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Procurement Data & Systems, Risk Management, Ethics in Procurement and Sustainability in supply.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills
• Associate or bachelor’s Degree required
• Actively seeking certification in CIPS/NEVI or equivalent
• 1+ years of relevant experience in Indirect Procurement
• Experience is setting up and leading local & regional tendering process.
• Lead commercial and contractual negotiations.
• Develops commodity strategies for assigned Indirect spend categories for the European region.
• Ability to implement and execute procurement strategy.
• Ability to work under pressure in a dynamic and demanding environment.
• Able to deal with stakeholders-groups on a strategic/tactical/operational level.
• Knowledge of the procurement landscape.
• Able to challenge, collaborate, influence and convince stakeholders.
• Ability to negotiate as an agent on the company’s behalf, ensuring the company is represented in the best possible way.
• Eager to work within cross-functional teams that include internal and external customers, and suppliers.
• Good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills - written and oral to deal with a wide range of customers and stakeholder levels - both internal and external.
• Fluent in the English language on a business level and preferably an additional language.
• Eager to develop negotiating skills
• Eager to develop analytical skills
• Ability to travel 25% within Europe
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