Vice President - Purchase - Water Treatment/Waste Management Firm

VICE PRESIDENT PURCHASE

Role purpose and contribution :

The primary focus of this role is to provide leadership and methodology to define, create/develop, implement, maintain Strategic Sourcing, and follow high standards across the organisation.

Manage the development and execution of a consistent global strategic sourcing.

- Safety Leadership in all work aspects

- People Leadership including capability development

- Spend analysis and Market intelligence

- Procurement Strategy

- Category Management

- Procurement Technology & Systems

- Supplier Development & Management

- Stakeholder Management

- Looking for opportunities to promote collaboration across broader category teams

Role responsibilities :

(Primary areas of task or activity for which the role is held accountable)

Job Specific Responsibilities Key performance indicators :

1. Develop & Lead Procurement Strategy :

- Lead global procurement strategy development in line with procurement best practices

- Lead sourcing initiatives that will maximise efficiency and effectiveness of procurement and make recommendation as necessary.

- Understand key stakeholders

- Update spend analysis regularly

- Conduct and maintain procurement market analysis to qualify suppliers, benchmark pricing/capability

- Optimising and homogenizing the category classification as appropriate

- Documented, Approved and Communicated Strategies

Qualifications & Experience :

- 15 to 20+ years overall procurement experience, preferably including international experience, with proven success in managing Greenfield projects.

- Deep Procurement/business transformation experience.

- Astute commercial awareness with an understanding of total delivered costs, foreign exchange risk management, contracts involved in procurement, incoterms, credit terms and inventory management.

- High degree of cross-functional, cross-cultural experience

- Highly developed negotiation, influencing and dispute resolution skills, particularly in relation to major supply agreements

- Highly regarded would be an understanding of international procurement cultures with behavioural flexibility to help maximise negotiation outcomes.

- Qualifications in engineering, business management, Procurement from an institute of repute.

Functional/ Technical Skills & Competencies :

- Very strong ethical standards

- Executive Leadership skills

- People leadership skills

- Drives high performance in the business

- Strong stakeholder influence skills

- Strong commercial acumen

- Direct efficient and robust processes

- Business strategy & innovation