Procurement Practice Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Pursue and develop senior level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts; support account stakeholder relationship plans 
• Develop strategic category plans that identify cost/productivity improvement opportunities in spending across a wide array of leading companies 
• The capacity to strategically and effectively manage all elements of the interaction and collaboration, performance, risk and innovation, with third-party providers. 
• Lead strategic sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations and supplier contract execution 
• Provide industry and supplier research, market intelligence and financial analyses to client. 
• Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with the Procurement Category function. 
• Promote corporate objectives and change initiatives, ensuring that the sourcing team is supporting overall company direction and growth 
• Ability to actively manage agreements throughout its lifecycle from contract setup to administration, management, and termination. 
• Mentor sourcing team on stakeholder and project management, with a special emphasis on collaboration, customer focus, delivery excellence, continuous improvement, negotiations and contracting 
• Develop client category structure for monitoring, tracking, and governance around spend and function performance to ensure stated contract benefits are realized and costs are transparent. 

OTHERS: 

• Project Shift Schedule: Night Shift 
• Project Rest Day: Weekends Off 
• Project/Team Location: Mandaluyong Robinsons Cybergate Tower 2

SKILL AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least 8-12 years experience in procurement + logistics (freight or cargo transport or truckload or warehousing or third party logistics or 3PL or small package or road freight)
• At 5-10 years leadership experience
• With stakeholder management experience
• Supported clients in the US / international client or regions not local to the Philippines (required)