Sourcing Manager - Corporate Services

Sourcing Manager - Corporate Services

Job purpose

- To manage Sub Categories of Corporate Services spend like Professional Services, Contingent Labour, IT, FM etc. across the various divisions of the company within a country.

Major accountabilities

- Analyzes the expenditure base to identify cost reduction opportunities; builds, documents, and continuously updates/maintains local supply market knowledge.

- Ensures optimum implementation of Category strategies in businesses, in close collaboration with site stakeholders and project leaders.

- Manages day-to-day business relationships of local suppliers.

- Ensure timely closure of PRs and POs within the stipulated time for the assigned categories

- Ensure the purchases are from the Approved Supplier List

- Assembles strategy for implementation of cross-divisional contracts, including methodology and reporting.

- Implements tracking tools and processes according to global guidelines.

- Overviews and monitors roll-out of projects against timelines, deliverables, as well as
KPIs.

- Regularly communicates progress/issues to stakeholders and escalate roadblocks along with recommendations to resolve.

- Uses best practices in Procurement, such as Category Management and eSourcing and identifies ways to continuously improve efficiency and innovate.

- Monitors compliance and adheres to the companies Procurement policies and procedures.

- Manages customer satisfaction and governance board requirements

- Work collaboratively with business, other sourcing teams and specialist functional support (BPA, Compliance, Audit, Legal, etc.) to deliver goals

- Responsible for providing country-level input to, and validation for, Global Category Strategy and the Annual Country Plan including facilitating involvement of relevant country-level stakeholders

Sourcing Manager

Key performance indicators/Measures of success

- Achievement of cross-divisional savings targets

- Buying Turnaround Time

- Share of volume through e-sourcing

- Compliance to mandated processes and guidelines

- Meeting key milestones in implementation of projects in accordance with pre-defined timelines, activity plans, and expected quality

- Local supplier performance and delivery

- Quality of supply market and opportunity analysis

- Spend penetration Level

- Days Payables Outstanding

- Preferred Supplier Adherence

- Contract Penetration

- Catalogue Penetration

Job dimensions

- Number of associates: 0 functional reports

- Significant project team leadership responsibilities

- Financial responsibility: Spend: USD 6-10m

Impact on the organization:

- Manages local categories across Divisions within a country. Moderate- to Mid-level financial impact in terms of savings generation.

Education: Bachelor’s degree or Engineering

- MBA or similar management qualification desirable.

- Experience: 5-10 years of Procurement experience. Category management experience desirable.

- Experience in managing Technical spend categories like Laboratory equipment and supplies, Clinical services, Scientific services

- Knowledge of export/import procedures and process of India specifically around EPCG and related licenses.

If you have any queries, or if you want to apply for this opening, please mail me on mkorudu@antal.com