Practice Manager at Synergy Consultants
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GM/Deputy GM - Procurement Service Delivery Lead - Shared Services - Agribusiness/Commodity Trading Industry (12-16 yrs)
Key Responsibilities
The Procurement Service Delivery Lead is:
- Will be responsible for leading and owning the Procurement operations
- Lead the transactional procurement teams and is responsible for delivering best in class service delivery
- Ensure compliance to organizations policy and procedures in the operation of business functions
- Periodically participate in Governance meetings with the various stakeholders to review current processes and align them with the Global strategy
- Provide thought leadership for successful transactional procurement activity process set up and manage operations for noiseless transition and integrating seamless to the Delivery Centre
- Will be responsible to review, design and implement global standardized processes and the associated metrics required to identify performance issues/efficiency opportunities
- Will work with the Transformation Lead to establish a strong Management Information process which will include meaningful information and analysis on business and functional performance in the form of dashboards
- Required to establish strong working relationship with the key stakeholders in Europe and Asia and manage them independently, address their needs and resolve issues / escalations received from them
- Will need to drive a culture of high performance in the teams by setting SMART goals with defined measure of success, differentiating between people and rewarding them based on performance
- Will be responsible for driving talent development program in line with the organization plan including career planning discussions, learning & development through training
Knowledge and Experience
Essential:
- Experience in Agribusiness/Commodity trading industry preferred
- 12+ years experience in managing global operations with ideally 5 years of experience in leading procurement operations function, preferably in a complex, fast paced and matrix and challenging work environment
- Significant experience in leading large delivery teams in a Global Environment. Ensure stabilization of transitioned procurement processes
- Deep function, process, transformation and project management knowledge and experience, high attention to detail
- Deep knowledge of procurement technology e.g. SAP ARIBA
- Change management and communication experience, with multi-functional team management/ collaboration experience
- Quick to identify risks and collaborate with necessary parties to develop risk mitigation plans
- An understanding of shared services/ COE operating models; experience in a shared services/ COE organization
- Working knowledge of leading practices in shared services (e.g., CRM, SLAs, KPIs, metrics, and reporting)
- Strong knowledge of technologies required to support a shared service/ COE organization
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