Purchasing Manager at RS Hunter Limited

Job Description

• To manage all purchasing demand of the affiliate and ensure compliance to local and global contracts.
• In charge of the affiliate based spends.
• Responsible for providing procurement support.
• Reporting to the CFO (Chief Financial Officer)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Ensures the good execution of any category sourcing plan in line with the local needs.
• Develops shares and contributes to the Global procurement strategy definition and supplier markets expertise with category management and regional procurement domain managers and customers.
• Anticipates and consolidates all business needs to carry out the negotiations at NEA zone level.
• Adapts, elaborates and implements sourcing strategies according to category management orientations coming from global category managers and regional procurement domain managers.
• Accountable for achieving the objectives for the affiliate defined by global category managers.
  

Operational

• Accountable for optimizing purchasing of goods and services within defined spend families to meet the needs of internal customers, in compliance with the purchasing/sourcing orientations and company procedures.
• Role may be accumulated with that of Lead buyer depending on the skill level regarding sourcing and supplier market knowledge.
• Ensures the accurate development in the iteration process of the Mapping, the sourcing and actions plan.
• Ensures the efficient execution of the Sourcing and action plan and its subsequent reporting.
• Ensures the alignment of the strategic negotiations with the supplier management.
• Ensures the compliance to contracts to be executed over the NEA zone scope.
  

Business partnering

• Ensures local business partners’ service levels are satisfied.
• Handling specific local needs and facilitate for the purchasing function between stakeholders and lead buyers.
• Develop strong relationship with executive customers with the support of the Regional Procurement Domain Managers
• Ensures procurement integration within the business with the support of the Regional Procurement Domain Managers

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Good knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources
• Customer oriented acumen, with a vision and a strategic mind-set.
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Computer literate