EUA Geozone Sourcing Lead

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Law or Business.
  
• Experience of Compliance/Audit Interviews.
  
• Minimum of 10 years of international experience in procurement.
  
• Ability to interact in English and potentially other language relevant in local hub.
  
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal abilities.
  
• Experience working in an International Environment.
  
• Solid understanding of Procurement processes, Industry Standards and Supplier Management.
  
• Strong analytical, negotiation and communication skills.
  
• Display impeccable time-management, attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
  
• Proficient in MS Office suite.
  
• Ability to work well under pressure, multi-task with proven record of meeting deadlines.
  
• Must be flexible with the ability to work in a constantly changing environment and quickly adapt to operational requirements.
  
• Excellent customer service.
  

Preferred:

• Procurement Qualification CPP, CSCP or CIPS.
  
• 5+ years of experience of supervising teams.
  
• Experience of Managing Tenders of over $10m.
  
• Experience with Material Resource Planning and Demand. Resource Planning.
  
• Advanced excel user.
  
• Presentation Skills to Director Level.
  
• ERP Master User – Preferably JD Edwards.
  
• Deep understanding of Purchasing Contracts and Agreements.
  

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Law or Business.
  
• Experience of Compliance/Audit Interviews.
  
• Minimum of 10 years of international experience in procurement.
  
• Ability to interact in English and potentially other language relevant in local hub.
  
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal abilities.
  
• Experience working in an International Environment.
  
• Solid understanding of Procurement processes, Industry Standards and Supplier Management.
  
• Strong analytical, negotiation and communication skills.
  
• Display impeccable time-management, attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
  
• Proficient in MS Office suite.
  
• Ability to work well under pressure, multi-task with proven record of meeting deadlines.
  
• Must be flexible with the ability to work in a constantly changing environment and quickly adapt to operational requirements.
  
• Excellent customer service.
  

Preferred:

• Procurement Qualification CPP, CSCP or CIPS.
  
• 5+ years of experience of supervising teams.
  
• Experience of Managing Tenders of over $10m.
  
• Experience with Material Resource Planning and Demand. Resource Planning.
  
• Advanced excel user.
  
• Presentation Skills to Director Level.
  
• ERP Master User – Preferably JD Edwards.
  
• Deep understanding of Purchasing Contracts and Agreements.
  

Safety & Compliance:

• Maintains safety and service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business.
  
• Ensures all Vendors are contracted using correct forms of contract and vetted.
  
• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with Company policies and procedures, relevant laws, regulations, standards and industry practices.
  
• Acts as focal point for Internal Compliance teams in relation to items such a trade, ethics. Sarbanes-Oxley.
  

Operational Capability:

• Generate and implement effective sourcing and regional category management strategies.
  
• Running Spend analysis and Identifying Souring Opportunities and Projects while leveraging on local and regional volume and size.
  
• Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency.
  
• Perform cost analysis, negotiation strategies and benchmarking.
  
• Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement, market analysis and trends
  
• Perform estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques.
  
• Coordinate and liaise with suppliers, subcontractors, stake holder and internal product lines/businesses.
  
• Keep track of all costs and managing budgets.
  
• Get engaged with end users to understand and resolve complex technical, strategic and business related issues.
  
• Managing the bids process from end to end while insuring compliance in all stages. Lead bid schedule and milestones.
  
• Prepare and review the commercial aspects of the bid, ensuring TCO is considered in the final analysis.
  
• Manage the bid budget, to monitor and report on overall performance against KPIs where needed.
  
• Drive continuous improvement, through setting pre and post-bid reviews
  
• Ensuring all set deadlines are respected and met.
  
• Lead negotiation and/or re-negotiation of new and existing contract rate.
  
• Manage governance with the strategic suppliers and drive the suppliers’ performance towards operational excellence.
  
• Ensure efficient Supplier Base Management while performing due diligences and insuring transactions compliance.
  
• Develop and manage relationship management of key suppliers; scheduling regular performance reviews and SQ reviews.
  

Client Communication:

• Maintains effective level of communication with a broad range of stakeholders in order to plan and prioritize contracting activities to support business requirements.
  
• Engage our external partners, contractors and subcontractors with the utmost professionalism and gain business alignment.
  
• Prepares and communicates shortage and backlog reports, and provide visibility of other potential interruptions to internal customers.
  

Financial Perfomance:

• Identifies opportunities and implements actions to continually reduce the cost of supply, meet demand requirements  and to generate savings and benefits to the business.
  
• Interfaces with AP personnel to ensure the entire procure-to-pay process is fully implemented and seamlessly for all stakeholders.
  

People Management & Development:

• Undertakes necessary Procurement training to enhance process excellence and the ability to improve overall performance.
  
• Responsible for completing all Company designated training and competency programs assigned to the position.
  
• Participates in the performance management program and quarterly conversations.
  

Vision & Leadership:

• Identify process problems and concerns and make recommendations for innovative solutions and corrective actions to achieve desirable results, help the company better manage cost on supplies and supplier services