(UXB410) | Strategic Sourcing Manager - (Procurement/Digital)
Responder al anuncioCHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11, 000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact. What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability.
You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.
Job Description
Our Global Procurement function is committed to deliver a significant contribution towards Brambles growth goals, enabling the markets to win through Procurement using breakthrough category strategies, executing complex sourcing programs and managing supplier relationships. By improving delivery in all three of these areas, Brambles gains competitive advantage and an increased operating margin.
The purpose of this role is to lead the Procurement activities to support our Serialization programme in its different stages from development, execution and scaling. The execution phase comprises building relationships with both strategic and tactical suppliers for the procurement of tags, devices and components for supply chain readiness, as well as ramping-up the implementation and building contingency with multiple sourcing to de-risk external disruption. You will help overcoming barriers related to international shipments with a clear focus on local suppliers in each of the markets where Serialization is deployed.
Key Accountabilities
- Be a key business partner, supporting the digital transformation of Brambles by influencing, creating value and maximizing competitive advantage from our 3rd party investments.
- Ensure market research, benchmarking and supplier innovation are brought to bear in leadership decision making.
- Core to this role is an understanding of how longer-term vendor management, particularly across regular renewals of enterprise agreements, can change the relationship and value proposition with key suppliers.
- Build strategic vendor management relationships that aid efficient and effective consumption of value-add technology capability.
- Lead and develop breakthrough business projects using advanced category management and strategic sourcing tools.
- Drive the sourcing and the creation of excellent & sustainable contracts.
- Lead the relationships with key suppliers to deliver significant measurable and sustainable annual value.
- The management of technology-based services, hardware, software and services contracts and their renewals with key suppliers.
- Focus on the ‘game-changers’ leveraging scale & skill.
- Implement governance / steering groups with category sponsors.
- Engage with technical suppliers and contractors to prepare for scaling globally, including outsourced developments and implementation.
Scope of Role
This role covers sub-categories and suppliers traditionally contained within the IT portfolio with stakeholders from Digital Transformation leadership. The key focus will be on taking ownership as the Global lead for any spend which falls under.
All aspects of IT Security and related services are a core area of responsibility and competence, including:
- Software libraries
- Trial licenses for software and hardware
- Support components procurement for development projects
- Networking hardware, software, maintenance, telecommunications equipment
- IT Consultancy, contracted services (including offshore) & professional services
- SaaS based services
The role will also serve as a business partner for “Digital” and have regular interaction with the Digital Leadership Team. This role will coordinate effort across the other procurement category leads to achieve excellent business outcomes for Digital as needed.
Experience
- Experience in sourcing technical hardware and software components.
- 5 years’ experience within a large international business is desirable.
- Senior stakeholder management.
- Cost & financial management.
- Supplier management.
- Coupa e-sourcing (desirable).
Knowledge
- You can articulate the supply market and take that knowledge to develop a strategy/executable plan.
- Executive presence and confidence around challenging stakeholders.
- Global mentality and collaborative approach.
- Knowledge within the categories across multiple areas of spend and key suppliers.
- Leads by example and directs the wider teams to find additional information.
Preferred Education
Bachelors
Preferred Level of Work Experience
5 - 7 years
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce.
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