AMEI Category Manager

• Define 3 years category strategy (including the supplier strategy) based on internal present and future requirements utilizing supplier and competitor market analysis together with category specialist local HOP and key business stakeholders

• Ensure deployment and maintenance of category strategy in all entities

• The sourcing plan shall primarily focus on supplier qualification (new or extension) frame agreement co-development alliances early partnering on key projects.

• In close cooperation with Stakeholders establish yearly ambition and its updates (within the target and rolling forecast processes)

• Implement and manage the category strategy at appropriate geographical level

• Liaise with other HUB / Cluster counterparts to ensure alignment on sourcing initiatives and priorities as well as assessing practices for consideration in own efforts

• Analyze current procurement portfolio spend supply base contracts for Africa Middle East and India

• Analyze industry market profile and key suppliers TCO drivers

• Identify Risks & Opportunities

• Perform internal and external benchmarks in relationship with the Procurement Performance Manager

• Mitigate foreign exchange and commodities price risks in accordance with Finance policy and evaluate the cost impact and recommend plans ( currency per country)

• Identify short term opportunities (volumes consolidation bundling) and long term opportunities (standardization etc) and consolidate needs (OPEX and CAPEX) establish RFx planning

• Take into account projects requirements through Procurement Project Managers and propose appropriate sourcing strategies

2. Sourcing execution & Contract Management

• Analyse requirements and challenge specifications with requesters

• Identify potential suppliers and propose the list to requesters

• Launch RFx to pre-selected suppliers and deploy the process of suppliers selection (technical and commercial) with requesters

• Analyze offers using TCO and Should Cost approaches make scenarios and propose short list of suppliers based on fact-based and agreed criteria to requesters

• Select suppliers and negotiate contracts in alignment with AMEI Chief Procurement Officer

• Communicate and explain contracts to Buyers / Requisitioners and finance team for deployment and appropriate execution in the system.

• Communicate contracts to internal customers (Supply chain)

• Establish measures and controls to ensure and track successful implementation of the contract in collaboration with Procurement Performance Manager

• Follow and manage contract implementation (application of price escalation formulas volume rebate collection products and services portfolio management progress clauses renewal etc.) including update of procurement database (contracts catalogues...)

• Define and periodically review buying channels

• Manage incidents and claims

3. Suppliers relationship management

• Lead SRM activities for key suppliers of his/her category (supplier strategy evaluations review and audit innovation initiatives internal promotion of supplier supplier days)

• Understand (and in some cases is involved in) the strategy of his/her most important suppliers

• Animate the supplier qualification and audit process in collaboration with Inspection teams HSEQ and Technical experts

• Support in Corporate Social Program (CSP) nomination process (validation)

• Contribute to supplier risk identification and mitigation to ensure compliance with risk mapping regulation

• Facilitate introduction of suppliers to company level stakeholders

• Manage contracts and supplier relationship in the long term

• Resolve issues related to supplier in his/her portfolio

4. Stakeholders management

• Develop and manage relationship with internal customers to ensure deployment of category strategies

• Develop internal customer feedback on category strategies

• Develop internal customer feedback regarding Supplier Performance

• Lead working sessions with internal customers to identify TCO reduction opportunities

• Develop proactive proximity and build recognition of the procurement function with internal customers

5. Continuous Improvement

• Conduct periodic surveys to measure internal customer feedback for continuous improvement in collaboration with the Procurement Performance Manager

• Get suggestions from suppliers to improve AL processes and develop innovations originating from suppliers

• Undertake corrective actions with suppliers to improve performance (e.g. Supplier development programs progress plans) and track progress

• Undertake corrective actions with Clusters/Functions to improve contract compliance

• Proactively organize sessions with internal customers to identify further TCO/TVO reduction opportunities: standardization joint process improvement opportunities value engineering etc

• Identify opportunities for automating Purchase Orders (catalogues Open PO Blanket Purchase Orders etc.)

• Analyze spot buying reduction opportunities define and implement corrective actions

6. Reporting

• Consolidate and present Category Management action plan to his/her Management and cluster teams

• Provide periodic activity reporting to his/her Management on actual and projected savings related to his/her categories

• Be accountable for the procurement performance related to his/her portfolio