Responsibilities

📍Conducting analysis of market trending and price benchmark to ensure the company is capturing the most preferential and competitive commercials from suppliers. 📍Perform periodic supplier/spend analysis to provide meaningful management reporting for finance leadership on the category vendor cost base, and to derive actionable insights for further cost control via demand management and/or direct negotiations. 📍Meeting the annual cost control KPIs (both hard dollar savings and cost avoidance) without compromising the speed, quality, delivery of business functional requirements. 📍Lead and manage certain strategic/ high value / complex strategic sourcing initiatives as assigned by the Head of Procurement. 📍Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and security requirements, including meeting the relevant Cyber/Info Security and Privacy throughout the sourcing / contracting process. 📍Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships within the assigned categories. 📍 Working alongside Accounting team to maintain the vendor master / perform regular company procurement platform maintenance & enhancements to ensure smooth operations.

Requirements

📍Bachelor’s Degree 📍Strategic sourcing experience – 6+ years minimum with a track record of delivering strategic sourcing projects. 📍Demonstrated skills in commercial and contract negotiation, vendor onboarding and management. Proficiency in Purchasing software. 📍Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels. 📍Ability to work in an ultra fast pace/ stressful commercial environment to tight schedules. “can do” attitude with ability to think outside of the box. 📍Proactive, self-motivated, well-organized, and efficient. 📍Broad range of procurement knowledge across a variety of categories. 📍Ability to work dynamically and flexibly with a broad range of SMEs. 📍Ability to handle uncertainty, fragmented data.