Procurement Sourcing Business Partner – Contract to Perm Permanent

We’re looking for a candidate to fill this position in an exciting company.

• Lead category management of assigned spend categories, including:
• Establish strong relationships with internal business partners and build a strong understanding of business strategies and priorities
• Partner with business stakeholders including contract owners and contract managers to execute category or vendor-specific strategies, especially for key vendor relationships
• Develop category strategies, including key insights from robust market analyses / benchmarking processes
• Execute vendor consolidation, preferred vendor and catalogue enablement strategies for the assigned categories
• Perform category governance, including leading and/or participating in category forums to build and foster the development of a cohesive, high-performing procurement team, and
• Lead and/or support efforts to substantively progress the implementation of the category strategy across the organisation
• Develop, implement and/or manage strategic sourcing projects to select and negotiate with vendors in order to ensure optimal supply chain performance, with a focus on quality, service, delivery, risk and cost. Activities include:
• Develop strategies to ensure competitive bidding and best value for PACS.
• Identify and execute on opportunities to conduct eAuctions
• Execute plan for sourcing negotiations, including maintaining a robust project pipeline (including expiring contracts upcoming renewals)
• Drive cost out for categories under management
• Identify and execute value-add projects to expand influence / scope where appropriate. This may include partnering with the business to execute non-sourcing related initiatives e.g. initiatives that support customer acquisition

• 5 – 10 years of previous procurement, consulting and/or business experience.
• Proven experience leading large, cross-functional strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Strong team and project management capabilities
• Strong operational business understanding
• Ability to influencing purchasing decisions and effectively negotiate complex deals
• Strong financial modelling and deal structuring skills.
• Strong and effective verbal and written communication
• Self-motivated, excellent organizational, analytical and time management skills. Ability to prioritize a wide array of initiatives
• Has an aptitude for innovation.
• High integrity and ethics.