+ years of experience in a global company in an Indirect Purchasing role
• Lead global strategic business-operational categories
• Responsible for managing relationships and negotiating with key suppliers at a senior and strategic level including contractual knowledge and understanding to review, lead and manage the end-to-end process
• Take charge and manage projects on behalf of the business for strategic initiatives
• Ability to evaluate, identify and mitigate commercial and operational risks with the business stakeholders and develop opportunities and improvements to key contracts, processes and business requirements
• Develop, implement and maintain supplier relationships and evaluation processes to measure effective supplier performance and compliance
• Contribute to overall business strategy and annual budget process
• Closely work with the Finance team to evaluate and analyze contractual value, effectiveness and efficiency opportunities and ROI’s
• Review and analyze global spends and suppliers to identify areas for standardization and consolidation globally
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to combine independent work with teamwork
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field