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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 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.
• Track and proactively manage Key Cost & Cash Targets throughout the year, including payment terms.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships (SRM) in collaboration with key stakeholders, conducting bi-annual business reviews and evaluating opportunities.
• Drive the agenda on Sustainability, Innovation, and Supplier Inclusion & Diversity principles for responsible sub-categories.
• Develop expertise in categories, 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 aligned with stakeholders and ensure business sponsorship.
• Regionally lead sourcing and manage 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 for stakeholder adoption.
• Participate in or lead Global RFX activities within the overall Spend Area on an ad-hoc basis.
• Ensure data accuracy and benchmarking for the Spend Area.
• Continuously evolve the Print catalog.
• Manage and execute demand management opportunities.
• Actively participate and contribute to the development of stakeholder partnerships.
• Drive projects with clarity and engagement through strong communication and collaboration.
• Interpret stakeholder and business needs with an enterprise mindset.
• Manage projects and change initiatives effectively.
• Manage SRM for target suppliers, applying appropriate cadence and degree of SRM.
• Continuously review service delivery to improve quality, performance, value creation, and cost optimization.
• Focus on business continuity, due diligence, and market intelligence, assessing supplier evolution and alternatives with the business.
• Continuously monitor and improve existing Rate Cards and preferred vendor lists.
• Ensure the implementation of contractual agreements (MSA/SOW) amendments and stakeholder adoption.
• 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.) and identify upside opportunities, potential risks, and blocking points.
• Manage ad-hoc projects in cases of overcapacity/risk elsewhere in GSM IP.
• Actively participate in training and continual professional development, ensuring completion of mandatory training.

Requirements

• Procurement experience, ideally in Indirect Procurement, particularly with Print, Premiums, GWP, and 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 the 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.
• Responsible for building and executing regional RFPs for Visual Merchandising and Regional Print & Premiums SRM for preferred vendor panel.
• 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
• RFP Development
• SRM
• Project Management
• Analytical Skills
• RFI Evaluation
• RFP Evaluation
• Should Cost Modelling
• TCO Analysis
• Scorecard Building
• Sourcing Tools (e.g., Archlet)