Global Indirect Procurement Senior Manager, VM & Print

Description

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

Long Description

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 and\or contribute to cross-functional projects.
• Introduce and\or 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.

Qualifications

• 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