Description
Procurement Manager - Remote (London) - £550-£650 per day - 12 months +
My client is a leading FMCG company. They are looking for an experienced Procurement Manager to join their team. They offer remote working with adhoc trips to their London based office.
Your responsibilities:
- Deliver both the financial and non-financial targets
- Develop and deploy European category strategy
- Manage and optimise the roll out of innovation at scale and create the ability to tackle untapped opportunities and white space spend as they emerge.
- Deliver excellence benefits through sourcing, demand management, supplier relationship management, contract management, supplier development and supplier innovation.
- Deploy demand management techniques to avoid wastage and pursue best in class spend practices.
- Lead and implement ongoing supplier performance through the setting of rigorous performance KPI's and SLA's and through the application of a robust supplier review mechanism within a Total Contract Ownership approach
- Work closely with the Europe Category Manager and Global Procurement to support best practice models for sourcing, cost models, SRM/SPM, bench marking, and e-sourcing
- Support Global and Local Procurement Category teams with relevant market, insights, input and builds for category strategies
- Partner with stakeholders across strategic business areas; Customer Operation, Innovation, Finance, Legal and Supply, ensuring full engagement to maximise commercial advantage, minimise risk and assuring quality of delivery and performance.
- Work closely with finance and tactical procurement teams to ensure correct spend reports and deep dive analysis
Requirements:
- Experience in Supply Chain process management at both an operational and strategic level.
- Proven experience in key procurement skills including negotiation, forecasting, and bench marking.
- Extensive financial knowledge and strong analytic skills to understand budget complexity and influence costs to drive savings.
- Strong influencing and communication skills
- Strong analytical skills, including forensic understanding of the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value.
- Commercial acumen, understanding of the business and judgement.
- Ability to work in an agile, fast-moving environment and ability to keep up with pace of change and prioritise according to business needs.
Barriers to Succeed:
- Inability to change and think differently.
- Inability to inspire and motivate others.
- Failure to establish clear priorities.
- Inability to deal with ambiguity
- Inability/unwillingness to travel within the Europe geography.
- Unwillingness to adapt to changing scope of the role as marketing trends emerge
Procurement Manager - Remote (London) - £550-£650 per day - 12 months +
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