Senior Manager - Procurement - GCC (12-16 yrs)

The GDC Sourcing Senior Manager will be responsible for the delivery of the critical Source to Contract service for one or multiple regions across Indirect Categories such as IT, Marketing, Professional & Corporate Services. This role will collaborate with the procurement category and local market teams (LOC) to deliver sourcing, negotiation, contract execution, and supplier lifecycle management services to the global procurement organization. This service is a cornerstone of the future procurement operating model and will enable the function to industrialize its core operation, driving best practice, providing practical knowledge for development of best-in-class category strategies, consistency of execution, and continual improvement.

The role is also accountable for the transition to, and ongoing delivery of, the future ready procurement operation model, for assigned geographies, as it relates to the GDC. As such the role is pivotal to the successful execution of the procurement future ready transformation

Strategy execution:

- Execute sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility aligned with the requirements of stakeholders and business partnering with Global Category team.

- Deliver benefits identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation.

- To ensure Procurement policies, procedures, processes, systems and methodologies are utilized in a compliant manner in the area of responsibility.

Benefit delivery:

- Support category leads in the creation and delivery of effective savings targets agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the agreed Savings Methodology.

- Deliver benefit identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation.

- Deliver savings and other set KPIs critical to global procurement plans as aligned with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the Savings Methodology and global budgets.

Business partnering & stakeholder management:

- Collaborate with key stakeholders to deploy strategies globally/regionally, facilitated by robust implementation and transition plans.

- Demonstrated success in collaboration with a wide range of senior leaders across [business areas] and supplier.

- Resolve escalations, including from senior business stakeholders, timely and tactfully.

- Understand and efficiently navigate organizational complexity to deliver set goals.

Skills & Experience:

- 12-16 yrs years of relevant experience

- This role should have strong demonstrated procurement expertise in commercial and contract negotiations, strategic sourcing, Indirect category management, cost model synthesis and supplier relationship management for delivering multi-country, high spend complex engagements.

- Demonstrated experience in navigating through organizational complexity, collaborating simultaneously with multiple teams, influencing without authority, handling escalations and associated business impact.

- Demonstrated experience in understanding and utilising complex business processes in supplier transactions, including all risk/regulatory/compliance.

- Strong experience in using tools like Ariba or other equivalent sourcing execution technology.