Global Indirect Procurement Senior Manager

The Global Indirect Procurement Senior Manager will manage the scope of the Spend Area priorities for a geographic region. This role will identify and partner with key stakeholder groups: Regional and local RDDC Affiliates and as well as finance legal supply etc

Role Responsibilities:

• Build the execution plan for temporary Fixtures & Print & Premiums in line with the Stores Value Chain strategy. It is critical this is a collaborative effort in close collaboration reducing duplicates waste and streamling future vendor engagements.
• Develop the pipeline of sourcing initiatives and opportunities for subcategories within region according to the overall Spend Area strategy and priorities
• Key Cost & Cash Targets: tracking and proactively managing throughout the year to ensure the achievement of the target including payment terms.
• Manage supplier relationships (SRM) for strategic relationships in collaboration with key stakeholders; this includes conducting bi-annual business reviews and evaluating opportunities & business satisfaction in order to develop further the Spend Area.
• Drive the agenda on Sustainability Innovation and Supplier Inclusion & Diversity principals and guidelines in respect to the responsible sub-categories
• Subject matter expert (SME): Develop expertise in the categories in scope leveraging external sources understanding the market ELC competition and industry best practice.
• Support the development implementation and maintenance of procurement standards (SRM etc) processes tools (and policies.

Strategy Implementation & Execution and New Sourcing Activities.

• Execution of pipeline or identification of new projects sourcing projects as aligned with stakeholders ensuring business sponsorship
• Regionally lead sourcing and management of RFX activity.
• Maintain and improve the preferred vendor list with a key focus to manage/reduce the tail of the supplier base
• Robust contract development and deployment ensuring visibility of final agreement for stakeholder adoption and roll out.
• Participation / leading of Global RFX within overall Spend Area on an ad-hoc basis

Spend Area specific:

• Responsible for data accuracy and benchmarking
• Continuous evolution of the Print catalog
• Demand management opportunities and execution

Stakeholder Management

• Actively participate and contribute to the continued development of our stakeholder partnership
• Strong communication and collaboration to drive projects with clarity and engagement
• Interpret stakeholder and business needs with an enterprise mindset in driving projects forward
• Project & change management with excellence.

SRM

• SRM in respect to target suppliers degree of SRM applied and cadence.
• Continuous review of service delivery to have a positive impact on the quality and the improvement of the performances as well as to seek further value creations and cost optimizations
• Key focus on business continuity due diligence and market intelligence and trends. Ensuring supplier evolution and alternatives are assessed in collaboration with the business.
• continuous monitoring and improvement of the existing Rate Cards (price grids) / panel of preferred vendor list
• Ensure the implementation of contractual agreements (MSA /SOW) amendments and adoption by stakeholder groups

Cross functional/ individual

• Introduce andor contribute to cross-functional projects.
• Introduce andor participate in the continuous improvement of our processes and procurement performances.
• Ensure the management of internal dashboards (KPI savings etc) as required and identify the upside opportunity and potential risk and blocking points
• Where required manage ad-hoc projects in cases of overcapacity/ risk elsewhere in GSM IP
• Actively participate in training and continual professional development. Ensuring all mandatory trainings is completed.

• Procurement experience ideally in Indirect Procurement particularly experience in Print Premiums GWP Temporary Visual Merchandising
• Procurement skills are a prerequisite for this role strong experience and expertise in Spend Area Execution
• Excellent collaboration team ethic and ability to coordinate in a matrix team environment within Spend Area and Affiliates in region.
• Strategic thinking. This role contributes and supports the in the development and execution of the Spend Area strategy for the scope.
• Strong stakeholder relationship management capability including proficient communication and presentation skills. This role will be responsible to build and execute regional RFPs for Visual Merchandising and Regional Print & Premiums SRM for preferred vendor panel.
• Strong project management skills: flexibility and capacity to adapt to changing project circumstances. Rigor and organization to manage simultaneous projects in an efficient manner. Ability to use sourcing tools such as Archlet.
• Excellent analytical skills to evaluate RFI RFP; detailed comparison / should cost modelling / TCO. Building relevant score cards based on the predefined criteria with the business