Strategize, formulate and execute/deploy yearly strategies to support the overall business goals and department goals.
Develop initiatives that maximize benefits from emerging technologies, including AI.
Responsible for the team categories management and drive significant cost reduction or value to the organization.
Provide strategic supply base management including supplier selection, negotiations, and supplier relationship/performance management.
Aligning strategies and processes with Sustainable Procurement policy
Steer and develop teams towards achieving yearly business objectives and strategic goals (e.g., revenue, risk, reputation and cost etc.).
Manage end-to-end procurement activities, both internal and external.
Key interface for stakeholder engagement and stewardship to value add to business units.
Serve as the primary contact for procurement-related questions, training, policy and procedure interpretation and alignment by all departments.
Talent development of the teams’ members in area of functional and leadership qualities, in building a high-performance team.
Requirements
Proven track record with successful 5–10 years of sustainble procurement experience in areas of leadership and transformation. 3–5 years of direct team management experience.
Displayed leadership capabilities to formulate procurement strategies in the area of procurement transformation, business innovation, sustainability, and productivity.
Entrepreneurial, with a high sense of urgency and accountability mindset.
Analytical, agile thinking, with an eye for detail and high-level thinking.
Possessed influential and business acumen skills, demonstrated in a highly matrixed and wide-arrayed organization.
Degree in a technical discipline (e.g., Engineering, IT, Supply Chain) preferred; other professional certificates are a plus.