• To provide strategic direction and tactical delivery of procurement activities and projects across several Corporate facing category areas, namely Corporate and professional services, IT and Supply Chain.
• Utilizing previous experience, identify and deliver positively disruptive, agile procurement solutions, resulting in auditable incremental value creation which you will report to the business, through a highly collaborative approach with both local and global stakeholders.
• To be identified/seen as, the regional procurement specialist across the business, ensuring that credible relationships evolve and develop to roadmap and deliver continuous improvement, innovation and value creation.
• Define and implement regional sourcing action plans in line with global/regional strategies, through sharing, co⁃creation and continuous improvement to maximize all opportunities for increased value creation in your segment and across the team.
• Negotiating commercials, and contract terms together with legal affairs, with important vendors, whilst protecting brand reputation and mitigating risk.
• Proactively managing spend data, PO Compliance, Payment term adoption, and escalating operational issues across the business where identified or optimization opportunities exist.
• Supporting the regional IP leadership team in ongoing Procurement transformation projects.
• Representing the Procurement function as an ambassador through best practice.
• Lead and collaborate from your seat to ensure that the key Procurement and regional business objectives are aligned and deliver according to the pre⁃set goals and live sourcing strategies.
• Independently develop the procurement business agenda across corporate facing spend activities, in line with the department and regions goals, to ensure that a proactive, collaborative stakeholder buy⁃in develops, and that your personal relationship/credibilityis utilized to enable procurement to lead a positively disruptive, agile and effective business projects.
• Lead cross Brand/Function Supplier negotiations to ensure best overall cost position for the Organization for assigned commodities. Negotiate, develop and approve contracts, agreements, supplier direction and business awards.
• Maintain and provide a current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends to team members and business partners.
• Develop and lead the strategy evolution to mitigate Supplier risks within the assigned area of responsibility.
• Utilize the tools, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities, and efficiencies. Work collaboratively with team members to prioritize and drive implementation.
• Support sustainability efforts within assigned commodities.

Qualifications

• Professional procurement certification (e.g. CIPS) preferred but not essential.
• 5+ years directly related experience either in a corporate branded environment addressing indirect categories/procurement projects, or from an FMCG marketing department with specific Agency engagement experience, or even a media/digital agency itself.
• Demonstrated successful results in managing and leading and/or engaging in strategic procurement activities.
• Proven ability to lead internal and external teams to ensure successful and professional procurement activities.
• Basic experience of influencing and managing successful change processes.
• High level of interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex problems using data from various sources with strong attention to detail.
• Diplomacy with strong listening and analyzing skills.
• Good oral and written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate to stakeholders at all levels.
• Confidence in developing internal and external relationships and presenting to c-suite executives.
• Advanced EXCEL skills (confidence with large data files).
• An advantage would be to have an SAP/SRM, SAP/Ariba experience, and basic understanding of the P2P process.