Senior Group Manager (Logistics) - Procurement Services

Job Title: Senior Group Manager (Logistics) - Procurement Services
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full Time 
Industry: Procurement
Experience Level: Senior

🧭 About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Group Manager (Logistics) - Procurement Services to join our team and contribute to our client dedicated procurement service delivery team responsible for co-leading (together with client) Logistics category planning and strategy development, benchmarking, collecting market intelligence, managing stakeholders, and developing project pipelines. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to lead the client’s defined strategic sourcing execution process, including building cost models, designing and launching of RFIs/RFPs, evaluating bids, planning and executing negotiation strategies, and making award recommendations. Additionally, this role may be responsible for leading a team of 1-2 offshore resources.

💼 Key Responsibilities

• Drive year-over-year savings while ensuring quality and service level requirements are met.
• Frequently interact with senior members of the client’s organization
• Lead and participate in discussions across levels and cultures.
• Create a positive work environment and fostering cross-functional and cross-regional collaboration.
• Develop medium to long-term category strategies for a variety of Logistics sub-categories.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies through the use of the client’s strategic sourcing process. 
• Identify cost savings through negotiations, event driven activities, and alternate sourcing strategies to achieve assigned cost saving goals
• Lead commercial negotiations and drafting contracts
• Manage overall supplier relationships, including supplier performance, capability development, risk mitigation, cost savings, and quality improvements.
• May manage the team’s objective setting, performance, career growth, training, and competency development·
• Act as the escalation point for the source to contract (S2C) team, communicating and resolving operational issues, and escalating to the Regional Delivery Lead as necessary.
• Lead Category Managers from 3 other regions to develop, share and implement best practices, and where appropriate leveraging market intelligence to drive innovative regional and global category strategies·
• Manage 1 to 2 off-shore direct reports