Corporate Procurement Management

What you'll do:

• Purchase goods, services, and software in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets within stakeholder budgets and business requirements
• Assess tenders and quotations from potential suppliers and provide recommendations to the business and stakeholders, evaluating opportunities for cost reduction, where possible
• Report savings/business impact results internally
• Support the development of innovative procurement processes
• Negotiate to improve pricing and payment terms with suppliers
• Manage new vendor set up and coding, and assist in on-boarding and off-boarding of vendors
• Support/prepare RFx documentation for any new services required for the business and liaise with stakeholders on a regular basis
• Prepare purchase requisitions (PRs) and purchase orders (POs) in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers and in line with organizational targets and requirements
• Audit actuals to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues
• Assist in developing standards for new software or services outsourced, maintains comprehensive descriptions of available software, and services
• Evaluate Implementation and Sourcing Risks and report to stakeholders
• Work with stakeholders and FP&A to accurately align on true costs based on business requirements.

About you:

• Minimum of five (5) years of project management or purchasing experience with a background in implementation
• Process rigor related to RFI, RFQ, and RFP management preferred
• Supply Chain certification(s) a plus
• Manages change, ambiguity, complexity, and drives for optimum results
• Sound quantitative and analytical skills are required with acute attention to detail
• Able to communicate effectively using clear and concise oral and written communication skills
• Good relationship building skills
• Experience with ERP systems a plus
• Self-confident with an ability to accept and respond to challenges in a positive manner

What Success Looks Like:

• Execute on RQF to Implementation with high velocity
• Ability to identify areas for cost Optimization of Current Spend
• Flawless Implementation Rate
• Low variance in Budget to Actuals
• Correct Identification of Internal and External Blockers in advance of sourcing