The Indirect Procurement Lead is responsible to manage their supplier commodity panel with a strong financial QCD performance orientation
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop the regional panel under their responsibility, enforcing group and local conditions as required.
- Develop and present the short/medium/long-term action plan for their commodity that meets the objectives of the Industry Procurement performance strategy.
- Provide market data on their category.
- Act as the global reference for the Sector on their categories.
- Participate actively in the budget preparation of their commodity savings performance.
- Participate actively in the LTP (Long-Term Plan) and budget preparation for the local procurement head.
- Review supplier performance monitoring (scorecard, escalations, panel inputs/outputs).
- Develop and maintain relationships with key panel suppliers, and develop John Cockerill C-Levels associated at suppliers.
- Lead and propose cost optimization actions.
- Manage the associated negotiations and lead the Sourcing coordination.
- Develop savings actions roadmap for the panel under their responsibility and share/support the Lead Buyers community associated on savings actions.
- Animate the Lead Buyers community associated on their categories and projects.
- Manage annual and globalization negotiations.
- Finalize the project buyer's negotiation (level 2) when needed.
- Provide project buyers with a structured panel for the Indirect category.
- Support management of series crisis actions (supply of product, quality issues, etc.).
- Ensure the conformity/validity of purchasing data recorded in ERP and reported in iValua.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Master's in Business and/or Engineering with emphasis or experience in Procurement or equivalent.
- Experience: 10-12 years of procurement experience in the Indirect category.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Must be able to assess the reasonableness of the analysis performed.
- Must have good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with Engineering, Procurement, Top Management, and other plant and office personnel.
- Strong negotiation skills, ability to perform under pressure.
- Practical expertise in office systems such as Excel and ERP tools such as SAP and iValua (e.g., purchasing - projects).
- Customer orientation, concern to offer a permanent quality service to internal clients.
- At ease in a matrix organization and a support department.
- Analytical mindset, ability to formalize, structure, and great rigor in work.
- Agility in a changing professional environment.
- Diplomacy, good communication skills, both oral and written, and ease in dealing with all types of interlocutors.
- Very good team spirit and willingness to contribute to the team.
- Reliability, integrity, honesty, discretion.
- Comfortable with an international environment and multicultural aspects.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Fluency in other languages is a plus.
