Cluster Procurement Officer Capex & MRO m/f

Job description

Cluster Procurement Officer Capex & MRO

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Overall

• Identify and drive implementation of automation opportunities, vendor reduction, local savings and cash opportunities
• Follow Portfolio sourcing instructions and preferred suppliers where available
• Help educate end users and drive spend to preferred suppliers, contracts and catalogues
• Ensure Purchase Order quality reviews (attachments, commodity coding, reject if catalogue available, preferred suppliers, etc)
• Support, develop, implement and drive procurement strategies for tactical sourcing in the cluster
• Ensure Personal Development plans are complete, training plans executed and that training effectiveness is monitored
Business relationship management
• Ensure relationships with the relevant business stakeholders are fostered: engage and manage business stakeholders
• Act as escalation point of contact for the business for issues/questions relating to the assigned areas of scope
• Drive contract compliance in the Cluster
• Where applicable represent at local governance meetings, to provide intelligence on commercial supply perspectives and to ensure shortage/lengthening of supply markets and effects on available material/labour is understood and managed in production planning. Arrange for key portfolio representation of Cluster Manager / Director to attend when required.

Procurement management

• Deliver supplier services in line with Cluster / Portfolio and UENS Strategies and contracts for the assigned portfolio / scope.
o Support global/regional contracts implementation, including communicating changes to cluster managed local users & stakeholders as required.
o Manage supplier interactions during the term of all pertinent supply contracts locally, supported by the Cluster Procurement Manager.
o Manage local partnerships/relationships with key local suppliers, supported by the Cluster Procurement Manager.
o Timely and transparent communication to local suppliers
o Address / escalate supplier non-performance as appropriate
o Run sourcing projects and events at a value of up to 20 Mio € and manage the related documentation (Procurement Project Plan, PPP)
• Drive spend to preferred suppliers and catalogues in line with Procurement Strategies.
• Support Portfolio Teams by:
o Collaborating with both local business stakeholders and Portfolio teams to establish Cluster business requirements
o Translating local conditions (tariffs, taxes, logistics, etc) and providing information to ensure they are included in Portfolio led Sourcing events where appropriate.
o Providing operational feedback during supplier negotiations/selection.
• Report Cluster savings in tool (ISIS) and the implementation of Cost Savings, Cost Avoidance, and Cash (via payment terms extension), in the assigned scope.

Procurement Transformation

• Support the roll out of all initiatives to improve
o procurement technology performance & processes; including supplier adoption of e-invoicing, auto goods receipt, etc
o compliance, process and governance interfaces for procurement, including:
o Process gaps and improvement projects
o Performance cascades, activity reporting and communications
• Support compliance activities
o Compliance to prescribed buying channels
o No PO No Pay policy & PO Bypass avoidance in country/ cluster
o No PPP No PO policy

Compliance to internal and external business policies, reporting and continuous improvement feedback of breaches
 

Skills & Experience

• University or comparable degree
• Ability to analyse sourcing data and conceptualise sourcing strategies to ensure all sourcing opportunities have been explored while setting category strategy or developing negotiation strategies
• Influencing skills to promote ideas and concepts back to the Business Partner Teams and users or budget holders
• Attention to detail and ability to assimilate, appraise and extract information quickly when faced with increasing data inputs
• Problem solving skills to analyse channel analysis information from Business Partner team and analysis skills to evaluate internal demand and external supplier information and extract critical cost opportunities
• Cluster buying abilities
• Innovative thinking to measure and promote supplier performance Curiosity to use, or suggest adaptions to, new technology to provide cost reducing or value creating support

2 - 5 years of relevant experience including:

• Relevant Procurement experience
• Skilled in working in an across a geographically dispersed team
• Experience in working in a virtual team
• Experience in Stakeholder and Supplier relationship management.
• Capabilities and skills in tactical buying and procurement operations
• Experience in procurement transformation and business engagement

Competencies

• Influencing others
• Entrepeneurial behavior
• Goal Orientation
• Accountability and responsibility

Our offer

We offer you a dynamic environment in which people with energy, creativity and passion work together. There are good opportunities to pursue your professional and personal goals and develop yourself on national and international level.

How to apply

To apply, you must do so online. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements and we will be in touch shortly to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

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