Procurement Manager, Strategic

The Procurement Manager is responsible for managing the entire strategic procurement process, from strategic sourcing to contracting, ensuring detailed execution aligned with global and regional category strategic vision. This role focuses on overseeing supplier selection and management, maintaining compliance with procurement policies, and executing tactical processes for supplier diversity and sustainability. This position provides significant long-term development opportunities. We're looking for someone skilled in strategic category management and implementation who is keen to grow into a distinguished procurement professional.,

• Responsible for sourcing, bidding, negotiating, contracting, and purchasing goods and services in alignment with agreed category and business strategies. Execute the competitive bidding process in accordance with the Organization's Purchasing Policy
• Execution of category strategy within assigned remit, as defined by Category Managers and local business needs. Develop and maintain a supply base that ensures the best value for quality, delivery, pricing, service, etc. Includes over-sight of all new vendor requests, in alignment with preferred supplier networks and relevant category strategy
• Support and implement preferred supplier network for certain spend categories and help drive spend to these suppliers
• Maintain compliance with procurement policy and fulfils business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value.
• Proactive management of local preferred suppliers including, anticipation, resolution and communication.
• Drive supplier management and ensures alignment to SRM strategy as determined by Procurement Lead and Category Managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions.
• Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, owning the implementation of strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.
• Enable savings and assurance of supply, manage savings leakage across downstream procurement processes
• Administer continuous improvement projects initiated by the PSC team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations.
• Lead and nurture a team of Specialists, setting ambitious performance targets, providing tailored coaching, and evaluating team performance.
• Partner with business partners to define skillsets, workforce requirements, capability needs, and long-term organizational staffing goals.