Senior Manager - Supply Chain Functional Excellence at Peoplesource Consulting Limited

Job Purpose
Working closely with project teams, procurement, operations, supply chain and other supporting functions  to  ensure  that  supply  chain  functional  performance  is  delivering  best  practice
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Key accountabilities:

• Leadership  of  a  group  of  experts  deployed  to  develop  procurement  contract  structures for a variety of complex goods and services.
• Owns   the   development,   training   and   implementation   of   policies,   procedures   and processes for the supply chain function.
• Provide contract risk and compliance oversight to the procurement department.
• Leadership oversight of Supplier  Management strategy  development.  Identify  risks  and develop mitigation strategies that support successful execution of the projects.
• Leadership oversight and management of procurement process, subcontract and supply chain audits as required.
• Leadership  of  a  group  of experts  to  support  to  complex  subcontract  negotiations  and produce playbooks/training materials for procurement teams.
• Establishes  operating  plan  for  procurement  risk  and  compliance  assessment  activities and performs to plan.
• Leadership   interface   between procurement   and   legal   department   on   subcontract strategies and subcontract risk management.
• Leadership  of  expert  support  to  assessments  and  the  development  of  recovery  plans, corrective and preventative actions related to subcontract claims and disputes.
• Reporting  of  functional  level  commercial  risks  and  implications  to  project  managers, regional managers, and senior executives
• Lead  the  evaluate  and  refinement  of  Business  Intelligence  goals,  business  objectives, decision   support   needs,   data   and   performance requirements   to   meet   business objectives
• Leadership and influence with other functions in an integrated team environment to drive the need to develop procurement specifications and statements of work for a variety of complex goods and services.

Skills/Competence Requirement

• Must  be  able  to applyadvanced  job  principles,  theories,  and  concepts,  contribute to  the development  of  new  principles  and  concepts  as  well  as  advanced  job  practices,  techniques,
• and standards.
• Recognised as a job expert within the company.

Job Attributes
Qualifications & Experience
Law Degree or equivalent and 10 years’ experience working with contracts and subcontracts. 
Experience of audit and the development of policies and procedures is desirable.

Problem Solving:
Works on unusually complex problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.

Discretion:
Initiates  assignments,  determines,  and  pursues  courses  of  action  necessary  to  obtain  desired results.  Work  is  checked  through  consultation  and  agreement  with  others  rather  than  formal
review by a superior.

Impact:
Develops  advanced  processes  and  guides  their  development  into  final  product.  Erroneous decisions or  recommendations  would  typically  result  in failure  to achieve  critical organizational
objectives and affect the organization's risk exposure and image
.
Experience Level
Individual Contributor