Procurement Leader

The Procurement Leader is responsible for managing the company’s supply portfolio. The Strategic Sourcing/Negotiator has responsibility for anticipating potential production issues and developing breakthrough ideas and processes to continually mitigate risk. The Strategic Sourcing/Negotiator will be responsible for supporting short and long-term sourcing strategies, driving factory relationships, initial cost negotiations, production follow up, and is accountable for all strategic details and decisions of all categories that are managed by their teams. Through this work they will generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies. Analyzing and calculating costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure. As the Strategic Sourcing/Negotiator you will be responsible for handling the company’s end to end sourcing operations. The successful candidate will be able to appraise and improve our sourcing activities by analyzing company’s spending, supplying partnerships and new possibilities.

• Manage the company’s supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending
• Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies
• Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure
• Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals
• Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency
• Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes
• Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
• Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques
• Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers
• Determine quantity and timing of deliveries

• BSc degree in supply chain management, logistics or business administration
• Proven work experience as a sourcing manager or procurement manager
• Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management and relevant software
• Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement
• Strong project management and leadership skills
• Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data
• Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions
• 2 – 4 years of Sourcing from multiple geographies
• Previous experience within an operating role (such as manufacturing) would be preferred

• Growth oriented mindset are a given
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and cross functional collaboration skills
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills
• Personal strengths in activator, analytical, discipline and ideation