Indirect Procurement Manager - Marketing Category
- Shanghai
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Create effective regional/ local sourcing strategies aligned to local business requirements and market nuances, while collaborating with global category leads to implement global best practices in region
- Execute sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility, including leading tendering activities, contracting, and supplier management
- Be the local expert in the spend categories within scope of responsibility
- Ensure regional strategies reflect sustainability and diversity objectives
- Deliver benefits to the BU identified in both local and global strategies through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation
- Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Procurement Plan and Savings Methodology approach, ensuring business unit and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process
- Build strategic relationship with a network of senior local/regional stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement's value proposition.
- Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development endorse recommend strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted
- Build strategic relationships with key regional/local suppliers and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships.
- Influence category teams to ensure regional considerations are considered in global & regional supplier relationships, negotiations, and contracts
- Manage the supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
- Lead all contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance with regional/ local suppliers to maximize opportunity
- Develop and Implement Operational excellence strategies and plans for key regional/local suppliers to drive improvements against KPIs.
- Transform the supply chain to release value and makemore responsive to business and customer needs - for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practice procurement and use of KPIs