Procurement Executive

1. Spend Management:
• Establish category specific sourcing analysis and select best scenarios based on identified business requirements, products/services specifications and market information.
• Take an active role in cross-affiliates/regional synergies, optimization programs and projects to streamline and standardize selection and sourcing processes that will generate economies of scale.
• Perform analysis of current products/services portfolio and supply base in order to identify cost savings and synergy opportunities to be further submitted for review and adoption to the Procurement Manager.

2. Customer & Supplier Relationship Management:
• Perform relationships with main local and/or regional/global suppliers and negotiate terms and conditions to purchase goods/services at the best mix quality-price-service according to company and market standards.
• Monitor supplier performance assessments and internal customer satisfaction on a regular basis referring to the KPIs defined.
• Monitor identified issues, and review appropriate corrective action plans to improve business relationships.

3. Compliance:
• Organize and control all sourcing activities to ensure that all orders are processed on time and in compliance with the PMI/VPMBr Principles & Practices and that products/services are delivered according to agreed schedule and defined standards of quality, report on compliance issues when being identified.
• Act as a role model in compliance management and ensure that all employees involved in procurement activities are adhering to company Principles & Practices.
• Ensure that P2P process is correctly and consistently followed.
• Perform RFx processes to improve supplier selection methodology and tools; establish and perform competitive biddings.
• Review and validate supplier contracts before signature to ensure all terms and conditions are properly defined.
• Upon contract(s) being signed, control that all data regarding suppliers and agreements is correctly established and ready to be inputted in all relevant systems (e.g. SAP).
• Perform vendor reviews (annual & ad-hoc) as required by the company practices to ensure the quality of vendors, credit review and vendor site visit. Ensure the review results are properly approved and documented.

4.Category Management
• Support Procurememnt Manager to enrich Strategic Supplier Pool

5. Budget Control & Cash flow Improvement:
• Perform negotiations with major suppliers within the assigned categories at local and/or regional level to ensure key cost savings targets and quality standards of products/services are met.
• Actively support the Procurement team and internal stakeholders with all necessary inputs to establish the OB and Rolling Forecast (RF), tracking actual spend and cost savings against targets indicated in the Rolling Forecast, as well as reporting the results.

6. System & Process Improvement:
• Participate in standardization and harmonization of procurement processes and systems to optimize data availability and quality.
• Leverage technologies/systems (e.g. SAP, e-­‐Sourcing, etc.) to optimize sourcing and transactional processes locally to the benefit of PMI, internal customers and suppliers.

7. Risk Management:
• Assess and measure potential short-­‐medium term risks' exposures (supply, financial, image/reputation) and propose possible prevention/ mitigation actions to the Manager

8. Reporting:
• Track and report on compliance issues related to transactions

- Bachelor or higher degree in economics/related fields
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance or Sales function with exposure to a multinational environment, preferably within a FMCG company
- English fluency