Senior Procurement Strategist

This role is a key member of the APAC Procurement as a Service Leadership team and serves as the Procurement Lead for a regional client-account or Project Lead within the Procurement Platform with a job title of Senior Manager.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading, planning, and managing the execution of procurement activities for our clients within the assigned region.

• Account Management:
• Single Point of Contact of a Regional Account (if assigned)
• Works with the Regional Account Leadership and all relevant stakeholders to ensure success of procurement plans
• Create and develop strong working relationships with key internal and external partners and implement process improvement within the organization
• Manage the account's expectations and relationship
• Manage the client expectations on Procurement topics
• Holds proactive regular business reviews with the account leadership and all relevant stakeholders
• Holds regular procurement trainings / webinars (process and practices) to the account operations to ensure procurement activities are delivered to countries with language requirement/s
• Acts as the Procurement Point of Contact of Functional Teams and ensure internal activities / requirements are achieved for the account

• Manage and develop Procurement Professional/s
• Manage multiple categories and services within categories and is responsible for planning, organizing and implementation national/regional contracting and procurement strategies and programs to increase operational efficiency and profitability
• Implement standardized systems and controls for procurement including RFP documentation, work authorization, purchase and change order systems, and supplier/contractor eligibility criteria
• Develop and manage relationships with regional suppliers/contractors and lead in contract negotiations and supplier relationship management
• Manage supplier/ contractor background and compliance screening
• Manage the supplier/contractor certification process including review of requisite experience, legal and organizational structure, financial viability, geographic coverage, insurance requirements and other capabilities
• Re-evaluate and optimize existing procurement strategies and agreements, manage insurance or warranty claims, resolve contractual issues and unresolved supplier performance and relationship issues, and negotiate variations to contract scope.
• Define and align with the account on their roles and responsibilities across the contract life-cycle – reviewing and amending this as circumstances and objectives change.
• Finalize contract terms and conditions and associated schedules and obtain authorized signatures from both parties.
• Define and set objectives, performance targets, SLAs & KPIs and strategy for contract implementation with key suppliers.
• Develop and implement short and long-term continuous improvement programs to further leverage Procurement solutions for enhanced commercial and strategic advantage to our clients' regional account operations.
• Establish requirements for and ensure the integrity of centralized procurement database systems.
• Serves as key point of contact for utilization management and coordination with procurement/e-procurement solutions.
• Develop a comprehensive sourcing strategy, including category management strategies and identify commercial agreement plan to minimize total cost of ownership and maximize value that will drive competitive advantage and meet Procurement governance requirements.
• The sourcing strategy includes an analysis to manage risks and target all aspects of cost and value to the supply chain.
• Decide on the most appropriate service delivery channel for various segments of the category and enable it for effective and efficient delivery; this may include change management with other departments.
• Implement the sourcing strategy by developing a negotiation strategy, tendering (as applicable) and negotiating with suppliers/contractors and recommending a final selection.