Procurement Assistant Manager

Main job purpose:

Provide support to the Procurement Manager and extended 3PM Team.

Key Accountabilities:

• Commodity ownership: strategy & management, including industry analysis, benchmark and in depth knowledge
• Sourcing Strategy & management
• Supplier Strategy & E2E (end-to-end) Management: onboarding, RSP, USQS compliance, business relationship, contract negotiation, improvement projects, price forecasting
• Innovation projects
• Commercial & Contract Negotiations
• Land year on year savings target: smart buying, product logic, cash, e-tender
• Work on upstream sourced materials together with Procurement Materials/Operations teams.
• Support Supply Chain landing Agility Program with responsible suppliers
• Support PCR (post-consumer recycled) plastic and sustainability (SuSo) agendas 
• 1st line of escalation towards cross function teams on responsible commodity/supplier
• Support Procurement Director, Procurement Managers on presentations and updates for internal and external stakeholders.

Professional Skills:

• Self-starter with strong accountability & responsibility standards.
• Strong on execution, analytical skills and to present key findings in a crisp way.
• Strong communication and presentation skills. 
• Strong stakeholder management skills. Build relationships with people across functions, geographies and companies.
• Must be able to work independently and virtually.

Experience Required: 

• Procurement experience and supply chain experience required of 5 years’ 
• Experienced in cross-function teams collaboration.