Indirect Sourcing manager - fixed term 12 months

Key Responsibility

The Indirect sourcing manager supports internal stakeholders in the procurement process to ensure cost efficient, time efficient, and compliant purchases.

• Perform cost and scenario analysis and benchmarking, including identifying savings and optimization opportunities
• Prepare and conduct negotiations according to best-practices
• Lead commercial discussions and negotiations with suppliers on agreement setup, and commercial negotiations, including pricing, rate cards, scope of work, and contract terms.
• Collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders across functions and geographies to define business needs, and support sourcing strategies, supplier selection, and agreement setup
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and drive implementation along the Procurement lifecycle in terms of the 'Source to Pay' process, policies and procedures in collaboration with key stakeholders (e.g. Finance, Legal)
• Ensure compliance to P2P processes including Purchase Order creation and follow-up
• Prepare monthly reports and monitor KPI´s
• Develop agreements and log them in the contract management system
• Contributing to learning and development within the team as well as the wider organization. This includes coaching and assisting in onboarding of new team members

The Spend coach team process around 5-10 purchase requests per day. The amount and type of work required for each request varies and ranges from simple administrative approvals to conducting full scale tenders over several weeks/months.