Manage all sourcing activities and secure demanding and complex multi-tier sourcing arrangements, promoting Supplier Relationship Management and early supplier involvement.
Main tasks and responsibilities
1. Lead the planning and execution of the category strategy across the entire spend to optimize use of resources over the E2E service/product lifecycle, addressing strategic commercial sourcing requirements, supplier preferencing, securing early focus on service and end-of-life requirements, supplier consolidation, and pipeline to secure continuity of supply and emerging business needs.
2. Successful cross-functional leadership and participation in New Service/Product Development, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), early supplier involvement and selection with technology development, productivity, total cost reduction make/buy programs, should-cost modelling, and business process and system implementation.
3. Manage and improve supplier performance within the category using supplier development resources and QDCI balanced scorecard methodology to monitor and improve performance across key metrics.
4. Identify, track, and implement cost-saving and compliance actions to meet year-on-year productivity and compliance targets for the category.
5. RFQ preparation, analysis, and negotiation/business award according to delegation of authority.
6. Develop open book costings, budgets, and service/raw material forecasting for the categ...