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About the Role

The Global Indirect Procurement Senior Manager will manage the scope of Spend Area priorities for a geographic region, identifying and partnering with key stakeholder groups including Regional and local RDDC, Affiliates, finance, legal, and supply.

Responsibilities

• Build the execution plan for temporary Fixtures & Print & Premiums in line with the Stores Value Chain strategy, focusing on collaboration to reduce duplicates, waste, and streamline vendor engagements.
• Develop the pipeline of sourcing initiatives and opportunities for subcategories within the region, aligning with the overall Spend Area strategy and priorities.
• Track and proactively manage Key Cost & Cash Targets throughout the year, including payment terms, to ensure achievement.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships (SRM) in collaboration with key stakeholders, including conducting bi-annual business reviews and evaluating opportunities and business satisfaction.
• Drive the agenda on Sustainability, Innovation, and Supplier Inclusion & Diversity principles and guidelines for responsible sub-categories.
• Develop expertise in the categories in scope, leveraging external sources, market understanding, competition, and industry best practices.
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of procurement standards, processes, tools, and policies.
• Execute sourcing projects or identify new ones aligned with stakeholders, ensuring business sponsorship.
• Lead regional sourcing and RFX activity.
• Maintain and improve the preferred vendor list, focusing on managing and reducing the supplier base tail.
• Develop and deploy robust contracts, ensuring visibility of final agreements for stakeholder adoption and rollout.
• Participate in or lead Global RFX within the overall Spend Area on an ad-hoc basis.
• Ensure data accuracy and benchmarking for the Spend Area.
• Continuously evolve the Print catalog.
• Identify and execute demand management opportunities.
• Actively participate and contribute to the continued development of stakeholder partnerships.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively to drive projects with clarity and engagement.
• Interpret stakeholder and business needs with an enterprise mindset to drive projects forward.
• Manage projects and change initiatives with excellence.
• Manage SRM in respect to target suppliers, degree of SRM applied, and cadence.
• Continuously review service delivery to positively impact quality and performance, seeking further value creation and cost optimization.
• Focus on business continuity, due diligence, and market intelligence and trends, assessing supplier evolution and alternatives in collaboration with the business.
• Continuously monitor and improve existing Rate Cards (price grids) and the panel of preferred vendors.
• Ensure the implementation of contractual agreements (MSA/SOW) amendments and adoption by stakeholder groups.
• Introduce and/or contribute to cross-functional projects.
• Introduce and/or participate in the continuous improvement of processes and procurement performances.
• Manage internal dashboards (KPI, savings, etc.) as required and identify upside opportunities, potential risks, and blocking points.
• Manage ad-hoc projects in cases of overcapacity/risk elsewhere in GSM IP where required.
• Actively participate in training and continual professional development, ensuring all mandatory training is completed.

Requirements

• Procurement experience, ideally in Indirect Procurement, particularly experience in Print, Premiums, GWP, Temporary Visual Merchandising.
• Strong experience and expertise in Spend Area Execution.
• Excellent collaboration, team ethic, and ability to coordinate in a matrix team environment within Spend Area and Affiliates in region.
• Strategic thinking to contribute to and support the development and execution of the Spend Area strategy.
• Strong stakeholder relationship management capability, including proficient communication and presentation skills.
• Strong project management skills: flexibility and capacity to adapt to changing project circumstances.
• Rigor and organization to manage simultaneous projects efficiently.
• Ability to use sourcing tools such as Archlet.
• Excellent analytical skills to evaluate RFI, RFP; detailed comparison / should cost modelling / TCO.
• Ability to build relevant scorecards based on predefined criteria with the business.

Skills

• Indirect Procurement
• Print
• Premiums
• GWP
• Temporary Visual Merchandising
• Spend Area Execution
• Collaboration
• Teamwork
• Matrix team coordination
• Strategic thinking
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Communication
• Presentation skills
• Project management
• Flexibility
• Adaptability
• Rigor
• Organization
• Sourcing tools (e.g., Archlet)
• Analytical skills
• RFI evaluation
• RFP evaluation
• Cost modeling
• TCO analysis
• Scorecard building