Manager
Full-time, Contract
Job Description
- Responsible to manage all global spend with Categories (depending on portfolio allocated) - to extend current pipeline of opportunities and deliver against savings targets.
- Maintain Category plans and provide regular updates to Director, Indirects and business stakeholders.
- Serve as the primary contact for all allocated categories, associated vendor-related cost saving and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead RFx activity in Scanmarket, using appropriate strategy and procurement levers for optimum results.
- Review, challenge and approve category spend requests in Esker/SAP.
- Be the Contract owner/administrator in the High-Q system - responsible for Contract Management ensuring that the vendor fully complies with contractual terms.
- Ensure compliance with statutory duties, regulation and legislation.
- Ensure activities meet with and integrate with organisational requirements for compliance, quality management, health and safety, legal, Code of Business Ethics, environmental policies and general duty of care.
- Lead or contribute to projects as required.
- Quickly grasp the nature, operation and strategy of the organisation and the network of IAC’s, continuously driving improvements.
- Ensure compliance with statutory duties, regulation and legislation.
- Ensure activities meet with and integrate with organisational requirements for compliance, quality management, health and safety, legal, Code of Business Ethics, environmental policies and general duty of care.
- Lead or contribute to projects as required.
- Quickly grasp the nature, operation and strategy of the organisation and the network of IAC’s, continuously driving improvements.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- High degree of self-motivation and constant focus on opportunities to cost out.
- Mindset to challenge the status quo and propose new ways of working
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Ability to engage, influence and lead people from different areas of expertise, recognise the different stakeholders in the organisation
- High levels of self-motivation, energy, tenacity and a strong drive for delivering.
- Ability to make decisions independently under time pressure.
- Maintain strict discipline with regards to confidential/sensitive information and must maintain a strong code of ethics.
- Negotiation and Influencing - Ablility to understand cost break down and leverage with market intelligence and to analyse the value proposition to secure endorsement from stakeholders.
Reference no: 92184