Procurement Operations Manager

Job Description:

Category planning

•    Deliver the External Talent strategy and, when relevant, customize it per MU or country

•    Leverage industry & market information to influence External Talent solutioning

•    Build work planning and category governance for the Market

•    Set up Market and MU targets in alignment with Market P+ and category goals and follow progress / achievement of those KPI

Project Management

•    Support the implementation of Global/Market External Talent programs and principles

•    Provide direction, manage status against agreed plan and provide escalation management

•    Provide regular status in accordance to agreed status templates to Global ET Delivery Lead and Market Lead

•    Support Market External Talent Strategy lead to gather/ showcase project delivery outcomes

Sourcing & Contracting

•    Identify market and local MU sourcing projects in line with the Global External talent strategies

•    Create and maintain local sourcing pipeline too through spend and talent skills analysis as well as through regular supplier and stakeholders meetings

•    Support market or cross MUs high complex strategic sourcing and complex contracting projects

•    Ensure overall policy & law compliance in process execution

•    Be accountable of the External Talent Delivery within the Market and act as an escalation point for Delivery challenges

Resource/Team management

•    Supervise assigned team members

•    Provide ET MU Leads direction and guidance to manage their team members’ performance/ capacity, escalating to Global ET Delivery Lead and P+ CXLs where necessary

•    Provide support to ET MU Leads on resource decisions including business case, interviews etc.

•    Connect with SSC POC/ Lead on a regular basis for continuous improvements and issue escalations

•    Lead APAC community calls to encourage synergies & knowledge sharing and also foster team spirit