Team Lead - Procurement Domain

Strategy

- Responsible for the definition of a local Procurement strategy in alignment with Procurement

and business strategies in alignment with PUM

- Safeguarding deployment of global and regional strategies within all local purchasing activities

- Providing local input for global and regional strategies in relevant categories

Procurement Business Partnering

- Roll-out of Procurement priorities into area of responsibility

- Knows the market of responsibility and utilizes this knowledge to the best achievement of the Business targets and the development of own categories

- Managing local Procurement activities against the needs of local demand owning functions and overall SC/business priorities in the area of responsibility as well as defined global or regional Procurement priorities and roadmaps

- Acts as Procurement eyes in the market of responsibility and transfers consumer/customer trends and supplier innovations to the corresponding area in the Procurement organization (PU / region)

- Accountable and responsible for negotiations and contracting of conditions with suppliers (prices, TCO, payment terms, quality levels, etc.) within Sub-PU towards agreed local business targets and Procurement scope

- Continuously reviewing contracts, seeking for opportunities to maximize Procurement value contribution

Performance Management

- Setting top-down targets for own team based on targets and Procurement top-down expectations and considering market development

- Monitoring target achievement, initiating corrective actions as required

Risk Management

- Implementing supply risk management processes and initiation of mitigating actions in conjunction with Global & Regional peers

Procurement Processes & Systems

- Safeguarding compliance with legal requirements, Procurement and non-Procurement procedures as well as compliant use and maintenance of data in all relevant systems within own Sub-PU

- Supporting the continuous improvement of global Procurement standards

- Actively leveraging global standards and best practices to improve local Procurement practice by connecting to peers in the Procurement Community

Supplier Management

- Providing local input to the process to qualify, select and monitor suppliers

- Consulting audits

- Actively managing supplier relationships to ensure suppliers are able and willing to fulfill requirements

- Actively working with suppliers to achieve innovative solutions

Organizational Development

People Development

- Building an engaged team of Procurement professionals

- Developing peoples capabilities, providing individual development plans