Senior Procurement Manager Job Description
Senior procurement manager
provides strategic guidance to Value, Access and Policy team related to evaluation of contract terms and conditions and contract negotiations.
Senior Procurement Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide project management expertise in coordinating and conducting process audits, reviews and refreshes, to ensure the processes are being adhered to as intended and remain relevant to the current business needs of the organization, which includes compiling and analyzing the results of the audits and reviews, managing corrective action plans, refreshing the processes and their associated materials as necessary and implementing any changes within the Procurement organization
Make customers (external and internal) and their needs a primary focus of one's actions
Manage the day-to-day workloads of a team of analyst and Sr
Coordinate staff and ensure all activities in the procurement department run as scheduled
Hold regular meetings with suppliers to establish and improve long term, trusting relationships
Establish open lines of communication with internal departments
Identify, through best practice, Key Performance Indicators relevant to adidas Group procurement activities
Lead the development, implementation, and alignment of Caribbean Banking sourcing strategies and supplier network capabilities for all spend categories to achieve broad business objectives
The Procurement Lead will be assigned major categories of spend and will be responsible for driving and developing significant sustainable annual cost savings programs and implement business strategies that directly affect company cost management strategies
To uncover and execute upon the savings opportunities, the Procurement Lead will be responsible to lead the execution of an industry best-in-class Category Management methodology for all of the categories assigned
Senior Procurement Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Procurement Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPSM, APICS, CPM, CPIM, PMP, ISM, C.P.M, EFT, ERS, EDI
Education for Senior Procurement Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior procurement manager 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, MBA, Finance, Management, Business/Administration, Supply Chain Management, Education, Economics, Technical
Skills for Senior Procurement Manager
Desired skills for senior procurement manager include:
Contract law
Especially around information securing and risk management
Industry standard / best-in-class contract terms and conditions
Procurement processes and applications to diverse categories to deliver value for the business
Applications and legal requirements
Contract terms
Inform business planning and optimize decision-making
Project management
Strategic sourcing strategies by product
Contract terms and conditions
Desired experience for senior procurement manager includes:
Develop and monitor fully resourced and costed project programmes
Prepare and collate the tender documents for NEC3 form of contract
Manage a team of 10+ specialists and consultants throughout and design process RIBA stages E - L and ensure sign off from the necessary parties
Provide effective leadership to maximise the efficiency of the team by encouraging a supportive and collaborative work environment
Advanced Excel and Word skills a must
Ten or more years of supply chain related experience
Senior Procurement Manager Examples
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Senior Procurement Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a senior procurement manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior procurement manager
- Leads the overall assessment and reporting process across J&J’s global supply base for conformance to the Responsibility Standards for Suppliers and other J&J policies and standards such as Employment of Young Persons, Statement on Human Rights, Anti-Deforestation Standard, Responsible Palm Oil Sourcing, Select and utilize appropriate assessment platforms/tools independent credible third-party auditors
- Develop and implement global awareness and ongoing education programs for all Procurement professionals to build broad-based required skills and competence in CSR and Sustainability in line with Our Credo expectations of suppliers
- Actively participate in global conferences, panels, and trade organizations for the benefit of J&J
- Benchmark, capture, and update best practices and institute and oversee continuous improvement activities to satisfy requirements and external stakeholder expectations
- Lead J&J Procurement reporting and communications on J&J state of preparedness, ongoing due diligence findings, annual Citizenship & Sustainability reporting relative to global compliance requirements, and ensuring compliance language is embedded in contracts, supply agreements, and P.O
- Assists and supports the implementation of Safety
- Managing employment practices, including but not limited to, hiring
- Partner with diverse internal stakeholders to promote different projects
- Accountable for understanding and representing Procurement projects, including cost and benefits, across all commodities with Sector leadership
- Accountable for team’s utilization of standard work including project tracking and documentation
Qualifications for senior procurement manager
- Ensure adherence to BCE’s best in class Procurement standards, process, and policies
- In depth knowledge and procurement experience in applicable spend category
- Formal training and/or experience with frameworks such as Lean Six Sigma or Business Process Re-engineering to enable a structured approach to the cost analysis of the category
- Significant experience in the negotiations of large cross-regional deals across a variety of categories
- Possess experience in planning, defining, and leading large (transformational) projects
- Very strong problem solver and innovative thinker
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior procurement manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior procurement manager
- Leading and developing a procurement team of procurement professionals
- Managing complex procurement projects within the Terminal scope across a wide range of procurement areas including responsibility for the strategic suppliers’ performance within the category
- Establishing and developing procurement frameworks and processes including end-2-end contracting strategies through complete contracts lifecycle tracking and supplier performance management
- Solving complex challenges through analysis and based on accurate identification of underlying factors/causes generate awareness of the impact of the proposed solutions outside the immediate area of responsibility
- Works with the Culinary Team to set specifications as needed
- Works alongside Culinary to organize regular cluster meetings, conduct yield tests
- Work with Culinary Council for product tasting
- Negotiates terms and conditions for the provision of Food and Beverage and Non Food products as directed by Operations
- Create and revise corporate procurement policies and procedures
- Manage contracts, and organize & maintain a database of all company vendors across global offices
Qualifications for senior procurement manager
- Skilled in developing strategies that take into consideration the time horizon and need for both immediate savings and long term sustainability and growth
- Skilled in developing strategies that take into account the impact of change across a large and regional organization
- Skilled in planning for and leading workshops with multi-disciplinary, regional, and level teams
- Skilled in developing relationships at the executive level and be particularly strong at making compelling cases for change
- Superior communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, with strong influencing and persuasive talents
- Ability to form and lead cross-functional teams in the design and implementation of end-to-end due diligence processes across the J&J supply base to ensure compliance with increasing regulations, such as U.S. Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals, U.K
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior procurement manager. 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 senior procurement manager
- Manage a Buyer / Buying Assistant to ensure effective execution of McCormick objectives across the UK-led spend pool, linking in with colleagues in other geographies to ensure McCormick global scale is effectively leveraged, including on Innovation and NPD
- Coordinate and work closely with McCormick EMEA and Global buying team to ensure ingredient strategies are aligned with clear strategy in place
- Act in a timely, efficient way to support the McCormick business and internal customers building long-term sourcing plans for key spend items
- Accountable for selecting suppliers and determining prices and contracts, in line with Delegation of Authority guidelines and ensuring correct sign off procedures
- Support a range of European cross-functional project teams and their reports (marketing, technical, manufacturing, engineering, quality, supply chain, finance) to decide the ways and the means for cost, quality & service optimisations, value improvement and innovation development
- Recommend and influence choices around business partners and build a long term sourcing strategy in order to secure the supply, to create long term cost optimisation and to develop market knowledge
- Monitor reporting tools, communicate progresses regularly against KPIs CCI, supplier performance
- To execute a plan to procure boxed beef nationally for all Broadline and SSMC’s
- Follow the beef procurement process to align with enterprise goals
- Generate earned income through market buys that will increase total margin
Qualifications for senior procurement manager
- Previous experience with Oracle and e-procurement suites, a plus
- Defining requirements, planning and executing sourcing projects
- MBA and/or Masters or Ph.D
- Proven experience and success in leading major cost savings initiatives and cross functional teams within a CPG organization
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to analyze factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations
- Ability to influence and interact with all levels of the organization
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior procurement manager. 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 senior procurement manager
- Review purchasing activities, key performance indicators and processes to ensure alignment to goals
- Develop internal relationships with business units to ensure compliance and adoption to meet targets and best practices
- Develop internal relationships with business units to ensure compliance and adoption
- A minimum of BComm in business, a quantitative field
- Understanding of advanced procurement techniques
- Establish and deploy the sourcing strategy for capital expenditure projects on a global scale, in close collaboration with the NA, EU and JP Procurement and Engineering teams
- Lead the execution of strategic mission, securing capacity, maximizing purchasing leverage and improving supplier performance
- Develop and implement sourcing strategy to optimize costs and to ensure continuity of supply for critical equipment & services
- Deploy ambitious procurement savings and supplier performance improvement plans
- Implement relevant metrics and dashboard to drive and monitor the corresponding metrics for cost, quality, delivery and service levels
Qualifications for senior procurement manager
- 10+ yrs professional
- Influencing - Decisions made at this position are critical to effectiveness of indirect expense management of the BU
- Proven experiences in managing complex internal and external partnership for outsourced and insourced services change management projects
- The candidate shall master sourcing and procurement processes (Source to Settle, Procure to Pay, Supplier management process)
- Ideal candidate has leadership experience in coaching and mentoring team
- Experience in procurement of a broad range of categories
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior procurement manager. 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 senior procurement manager
- 4-5 years category management, sourcing and analytical skills or equivalent work experience specifically within Information Technology
- Knowledge of the Information Technology and Telecommunications industries
- Preference is for someone with functional experience in a progressive IT environment in both strategic and tactical roles
- A minimum of BS/BComm in business, a quantitative field or engineering
- External procurement certification preferred
- Plan and Procure Electronics/Electro-Mechanical components on PCBA
- Works under the guidance of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Singapore, Pte
- Interface with component suppliers/EMS on strategic supply issues affecting supplier and/or Hitachi Global Storage Technologies operations globally
- Responsible for establishing, executing and tracking of project plans within specific areas of responsibility
- Develop buffer inventory program with key suppliers including close monitoring of buffer position, WIP and new materials loading to support the Master Schedule
Qualifications for senior procurement manager
- Digital Marketing knowledge a big plus
- Must have a minimum of proven 5 years’ experience in contracting
- Strong knowledge of hotel market in the UAE
- Strong contracting skills in food & non-food commodities
- Proficiency in Outlook and Customized Programs
- Hard-core negotiating skills!