Manager, Procurement Job Description
Manager, procurement
provides procurement vision, strategy and leadership in managing product and general procurement to meet planned cost reduction targets and best practices with the business.
Manager, Procurement Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Drive integration with internal business partners
Implement category strategies
Execute source to settle activities
Deliver value and competitive advantage measured by cost reduction and cost avoidance, supplier-enabled innovation, and risk mitigation
Ensure compliance in purchasing process, especially in vendor selection & bidding
Manage bulk order inventory and prepare, maintain and issue accurate monthly inventory/cost/delivery status report of all SBO items
Forecast inventory needs for upcoming projects, and place new bulk orders to replenish existing inventory
Purchase and replenish SBO items, distribute materials to vendors for furniture fabrication
Troubleshoot and resolve issues with vendors with respect to quality control and/or deadlines
Source special items as necessary
Manager, Procurement Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Manager, Procurement
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: APICS, NAPM, CPSM, CPM, ISM, CPIM, PMAC, CSCP, C.P.M, MCIPS
Education for Manager, Procurement
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the manager, procurement job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Business/Administration, Finance, Management, MBA, Education, Supply Chain Management, Technical, Accounting
Skills for Manager, Procurement
Desired skills for manager, procurement include:
Sourcing and procurement methodologies and concepts
Procurement strategy development and conveyance
Content and automation
Procurement tools and data
SAP
Plan/Budget Modeling using excel
Business partnering
Excel
New technologies and procedural best practices
Cost levers
Desired experience for manager, procurement includes:
Work well as part of a team, with the capability to manage with influence authority, and can build strong relationships with external partners and business leaders both globally and within Europe
5-7+ years experience in Purchasing and/or Supply Chain roles
Minimum of 2 years experience in a Manager/Supervisor of Procurement
Experience in the Publishing industry is a plus
The Research & Non-Clinical Procurement Sourcing Lead will be responsible for partnering with internal stakeholders across R&D and Technical Operations to create and implement sourcing strategies that address business needs while returning value back to Shire
Assist the CPM with quantity take off of SBO items, and ship to each project to meet schedule
Manager, Procurement Examples
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Manager, Procurement Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of manager, procurement. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for manager, procurement
- Adhere to business processes related to the position
- Provide input to management
- Develop the supplier management programs necessary to provide for continuous improvement in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) across the global supplier community
- Coach direct reports and/or provide direction to team using general policies and management guidance related to the tasks and projects
- Support implementation strategy for the Supplier Quality Standard
- Review supplier performance reports consistent with agreed requirements
- Negotiate contracts, pricing/supply agreement, supplier managed inventory (consignment) and total cost agreements
- Manage supply purchases and deliveries for all EU stores
- Develops and utilizes a system to evaluate vendor quotations with the appropriate negotiation and purchasing techniques to ensure quality, price, delivery, and service
- Prepares and reviews contracts, bids, proposals, and vendor agreements for legal correctness, price, and acceptability of items to specifications
Qualifications for manager, procurement
- Degree in Business or Technology
- Minimum 7 to 10 years experience in technology management, procurement, software licensing, and hardware management
- Direct experience with hardware management tools and technology required
- Prior experience with software licensing tools and processes strongly preferred
- In-depth experience on legal and contractual terms utilized by the major enterprise vendors and the ability to optimize deals
- Understanding of derivatives business and how we are able to leverage enterprise technology for maximum value
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Our company is looking to fill the role of manager, procurement. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for manager, procurement
- Communicate understanding of best practices, and action plans on how to transition the department to a new operating state
- Create, and drive adoption of, best in class sourcing, contract management, procure to pay and spend processes
- Facilitate sourcing strategy reviews with sourcing leaders, in order to drive best practices into planning activities and ensure applicable sourcing, negotiating and communication tactics are evaluated
- Manage internal customer issues and expectations
- Experience in supplier negotiations, developing/executing sourcing strategies and driving cost savings
- Use current spend information/data and business knowledge to identify sourcing projects and develop an overall cost reduction plan
- Develops and manages supplier relationships within assigned categories
- Develop measurement and reporting processes for spend tracking
- Ability to work in a fast pace environment, with flexibility to adapt to our changing business needs
- Understand or design available or required Standard Operating Procedures for ways of working in own team within all teams of the hotel
Qualifications for manager, procurement
- Change management, facilitation, results driven
- Teambuilding, able to project authority
- Organizational, planning and time management, decision-making (often with limited data)
- Familiar with standard procurement policy and contract procedures
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with Associates / Suppliers / Stakeholders / External Agencies at all levels and across all cultures
- 7+ years Procurement (Strategic Sourcing) and Supplier Relationship Management experience in a manufacturing environment
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a manager, procurement. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for manager, procurement
- Ensure that market surveys are completed in coordination with the Executive Chef, F&B Manager and Accountant
- Ensure that hotel expenses are minimized through the use of effective purchasing and by monitor daily purchase in consultation with the relevant personnel
- Monitor all costs in the purchasing department and recommend measures to control
- Obtain the most competitive prices for goods & services after negotiations
- Under the direction of Director Finance & Business Support, co-ordinate the preparation of the Departmental annual budget and work to achieve the budget by monitoring and controlling the departmental operations, considering revenue and expenditure
- On an on-going basis, control and analyse departmental costs to ensure performance against budget
- Establishes effective communication and collaborative processes with key internal stakeholders
- Coordinates salvage programs to identify unused goods for disposition (sale, gift, internal transfer, ) in order to minimize storage needs and financial burden of unused goods
- Manage supplier relationships, ensuring continuous performance improvement and implementing the necessary action plans, , dispute resolution, delivery time & quality improvements
- Lead year over year cost reduction efforts in support of TAS goals
Qualifications for manager, procurement
- Has at least 2 years of experience leading a small team
- Has strong analytical, negotiation and persuasion skills
- Maintain close liaison between the requisitioner and the supplier where the quality is of paramount importance
- Thorough knowledge of automated purchasing and inventory systems
- Strong selling skills or relevant experience in an Account Development role within a Consultancy Business
- Knowledge of the implementation or management of a Procurement related IT system
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a manager, procurement. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for manager, procurement
- Achieve savings targets, and for assigned supply base, supplier management and compliance activities, developing value plans and achieving value targets within the assigned sites and/or categories
- Contribute to the global category teams in the development, communication and approval of sourcing strategies, collecting and providing regional business requirements and regional supply market information and supply practices
- Accountable for demand management and governance and compliance metrics for indirect categories in the portfolio
- Deliver savings and value, including Class I and Class II commitments, PPV
- Improve team performance with team cohesiveness, leading, influencing, training, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure efficiency, boost morale and drive success
- Manage the local R&D Buyers and prepare a monthly project report identifying any Sourcing/Supplier risks for the projects and propose and implement risk mitigation plans
- Represent Purchasing in PDMM and PAB for local projects Leverage the strategic purchasing organization managing current sourcing and ensure smooth hand-over of sourcing activities at time of product launch
- Serve as a local Subject Matter Expert for OSTA Purchasing Policy Responsible for RFQ, benchmarking and negotiations, develop and manage an accurate costed BoM and communicate variances during development process
- Ensure adherence to rules, policies, and procedures prescribing the manner in which IT goods and services may be procured
- Scope and drive ongoing system enhancements as resident subject matter expert
Qualifications for manager, procurement
- Has at least 5 years of work experience in the are of Procurement / Sourcing
- Solid purchasing fundamentals
- Strategic sourcing process participation
- CPM (NAPM), CPIM, or CPSM certification is preferred
- Proven experience developing, negotiating, and implementing commercial contracts to include supply and quality agreements is essential
- Experience working in an international, cross-functional, highly matrixed and multiple stake-holder environment is preferred
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of manager, procurement. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for manager, procurement
- In conjunction with supervised manager ensure the establishment of appropriate staff and other resource levels for current and prospective work in accordance with approved budgets
- In conjunction with supervised managers establish training and development programmes for personnel and act as a mentor in the development of appropriate personnel
- Agree outline specifications for new systems and as necessary make recommendations as to methods to be employed and cost of implementations
- Ensure supervised managers monitor performance of projects relative to project schedules, budgets and procedures and ensure that corrective action/improvements is taken where necessary in accordance with project management execution strategies
- Measures effectiveness of operations through internal and external periodic feedback procedures
- Facilitates the preparation and submission of purchase order contracts with funding agencies and in accordance with organizational and agency reporting requirements
- Continuous effort to identify cost efficiency improvements, define cost avoidance and saving projects including implementation and reporting
- Inform and consult management and operations about trends in the supply market or potential business risks and opportunities, assess, manage and mitigate risk
- Prepare and process purchase requisitions for prototypes, tools, samples, products and services
- Deliver savings and value, including Class I and Class II commitments, PPV(Price Point Variances)
Qualifications for manager, procurement
- Significant experience (8 or more years) with procurement best practices, category management, strategic sourcing, managing supplier relationships and business process improvement, procurement process and policies experience
- A minimum of 5 years of procurement experience is required
- Knowledge of strategic sourcing and procurement processes are required
- Must be able to develop creative solutions and communicate to internal stakeholders, leadership and suppliers
- Check all Purchase Orders (PO’s) received by the department to ensure it has been authorized, signed, price checked and assigned to an authorized vendor
- Submit any invoices received to Accounting department for processing