Senior Procurement Manager

The Senior Procurement Manager leads the strategic planning and execution of procurement activities for the organization, developing and implementing procurement strategies, managing supplier relationships, negotiating high-value contracts, and overseeing purchasing processes to ensure cost-effectiveness and quality.

Requirements

• Ensure utilizing all economies scale and best practices to win local battles.
• Define and communicate the supply strategy and its implications, to inform and align the respective stakeholders.
• Lead the delivery of the savings and operating cash flow programme in his/her Categories, Cluster and/or Business Unit.
• Make timely decisions, balancing analysis with decisiveness.
• Develop and make use of competitive insights to shape strategies that counter competitive threats.
• Effectively engage in maintaining all external networks, and continuously builds alliances that will enhance Business’ competitive advantage.
• Remove organizational barriers to delivering exceptional internal and/or external customer service.
• Support the implementation of HSE initiatives, participate in safety awareness activities, and contribute to incident reporting and resolution in alignment with company and IMS policies
• Responsible to manage and optimize the financial and budgetary requirements as required.
• Identify metrics, tools and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies.
• Evaluate the challenges faced by the business and take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement, work simplification and the elimination of non-value-added work.
• Drive operational excellence in strategic sourcing.