Long Description

Spend Area Specific

• Responsible for data accuracy and benchmarking.
• Continuous evolution of the Print catalog.
• Demand management opportunities and execution.

Stakeholder Management

• Actively participate and contribute to the continued development of our stakeholder partnership.
• Strong communication and collaboration to drive projects with clarity and engagement.
• Interpret stakeholder and business needs with an enterprise mindset in driving projects forward.
• Project & change management with excellence.

SRM

• SRM in respect to target suppliers, degree of SRM applied, and cadence.
• Continuous review of service delivery to have a positive impact on the quality and improvement of the performances as well as to seek further value creation and cost optimizations.
• Key focus on business continuity, due diligence, and market intelligence and trends. Ensuring supplier evolution and alternatives are assessed in collaboration with the business.
• Continuous monitoring and improvement of the existing Rate Cards (price grids) / panel of preferred vendor list.
• Ensure the implementation of contractual agreements (MSA/SOW) amendments and adoption by stakeholder groups.

Cross Functional/ Individual

• Introduce and/or contribute to cross-functional projects.
• Introduce and/or participate in the continuous improvement of our processes and procurement performances.
• Ensure the management of internal dashboards (KPI, savings, etc.) as required and identify the 'upside' opportunity and potential risk and blocking points.
• Where required, manage ad-hoc projects in cases of overcapacity/risk elsewhere in GSM IP.
• Actively participate in training and continual professional development. Ensuring all mandatory trainings are completed.

Qualifications

• Procurement experience, ideally in Indirect Procurement, particularly experience in Print, Premiums, GWP, Temporary Visual Merchandising.
• Procurement skills are a prerequisite for this role, strong experience and expertise in Spend Area Execution.
• Excellent collaboration, team ethic, and ability to coordinate in a matrix team environment within Spend Area and Affiliates in the region.
• Strategic thinking. This role contributes and supports the development and execution of the Spend Area strategy for the scope.
• Strong stakeholder relationship management capability, including proficient communication and presentation skills. This role will be responsible for building and executing regional RFPs for Visual Merchandising and Regional Print & Premiums SRM for preferred vendor panel.
• Strong project management skills: flexibility and capacity to adapt to changing project circumstances. Rigor and organization to manage simultaneous projects in an efficient manner. Ability to use sourcing tools such as Archlet.
• Excellent analytical skills to evaluate RFI, RFP; detailed comparison / should cost modeling / TCO. Building relevant scorecards based on the predefined criteria with the business.