Job Description
Responsibilities
- Lead Category team strategies for short & long run and exposure to project management, strategic Souring, procurement and identification of opportunities in cost savings, value delivery to customer
- Bring to bear the growing business activities/volumes and strong market share to deliver competitive advantage in our Inbound Supply Chain
- Lead team ad-hoc activities to ensuring that the Business obtains the best value on all its spend
- Take overall responsibility for the performance of preferred Suppliers within specified Categories and work with other Functions to ensure deliverable (SLA and Non-Compliances) are met.
- Prepare Team performance reporting, and explain variances and work with partner to produce performance matrix, taking accountability to problem seek and set high personal standards to deliver timely results in a changing environment
- To identify and deliver Value Engineering projects which remove cost from our process that are not-value added activities and develop strong supplier engagement and relationships with key suppliers which seek to provide competitive advantages to business
Minimum Qualifications
Qualifications we seek in you
- Good understanding of transformation initiatives in Procurement and spend optimization programs such as Zero-Based Budgeting
- Bachelor university degree and Master’s degree, Tier 1 Business Schools Preferred
Preferred Skill Set
- Working knowledge of Contract Law and contract management, strategic sourcing, Supplier Management, Value Chain standard methodologies/techniques
- Knowledge of buying/hedging commodity materials/ Running e-RFI/RFQ or auctions (Preferred)
- Category expertise in the indirect sourcing
- Experience in Australia Market will be an added advantage
- Contract Management in Ariba