This role will collaborate closely with senior leadership to identify, evaluate, and implement impactful sourcing strategies that optimise company expenditure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead strategy development for specific sourcing projects through a team of Senior Buyers, spanning all procurement categories.
- Utilize market research and benchmarking to stay current with innovative solutions, best practices, and supplier trends.
- Cultivate senior stakeholder relationships, aligning priorities, and ensuring policy adherence for sustained partnership.
- Define strategic Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) processes to drive supplier performance, ensuring commercial rigor, service quality, and continuous improvement.
- Manage cross-functional negotiation teams to achieve long-term joint value with strategic suppliers within challenging timelines.
- Assess business needs and sourcing options to develop clear objectives and outcomes.
- Ensure policy compliance and uphold core principles of integrity and transparency throughout sourcing initiatives.
- Evaluate and present complex sourcing options, including Category Planning and Sourcing plans for large-scale projects.
- Negotiate large-scale contracts and oversee strategic procurement in a complex operational environment.
- Integrate sustainability into procurement practices, promoting TCO certification, sustainable sourcing, and lifecycle considerations.
- Track procurement project benefits and report insights to senior management and the executive team.
- Develop and execute Tier 1 Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) programs.
- Establish frameworks for managing supplier failures in collaboration with stakeholders and legal teams.
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience.
- Extensive experience in procurement activities including sourcing, contracts, and supplier management.
- Proven ability to engage and support senior stakeholders.
- Deep market knowledge across multiple categories.
- Demonstrable stakeholder management skills, supporting executive leadership agendas.
- Expert negotiator with experience in complex commercial arrangements.
- Strong risk management capabilities guided by policy.