Procurement Strategy Specialist
About this position
Responsibilities
• Drive and track compliance, as well as link with sourcing team for policies and procedures
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for corporate goods and service
• Consolidate, analyze, and report on BU Procurement metrics for business reviews
• Provide BU level input to category strategies (Central Sourcing) and support implementation of aligned strategies
• Collaborate with the Enterprise processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk and Supplier Management
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with business needs into category sourcing plans, and ensure successful implementation and execution.
• Ensure supplier relationship management, and supplier performance management practices are in place and managed.
• Drive financial advantages, product quality, innovation and the sustainability agenda
• Support Procurement implementation, Policy, Procedures, which ensure that Citizen attains cost of value, complies with internal and external regulations and delivers Social Value to the communities in which it operates.
• Develop Excel workbooks and databases to collate, manipulate and analyse spend data and information the Procurement team to make business decisions and inform the business.
• Budget control and review cycle, including tracking of budget, financial activities, and status of each project budget across fiscal years, authorizations, appropriations, and expenditures
• Develop annual program, reconcile and revise plans against actual travel expenditures, and prepare status and affordability report
• Lead and manage high value and strategic procurement projects and improvement process, Coordinate for Corporate projects align with the policy
Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree/Master’s Degree in Supply Chain/Logistics, Business, Statistic or related field, MBA is preferred
• 5+ years of procurement or purchasing experience
• Experience in various roles within Procurement functions
• Excellent skills: verbal, written, presentation.
• Strategic skills with ability to see issues from multiple viewpoints
• Demonstrated skills in communication and complex negotiations
• Good command of English is preferred
• Have computer skills, especially Microsoft Excel (Pivot, VLookup), Access etc.
• Have analytical skills
• Be a responsible person and Flexible working ability