Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Duties:
Overall responsibility and leadership for all contract management and Supplier Relationship management activities and local and regional sourcing within their sphere of responsibility.
Including;
- Responsible for supporting the strategic sourcing activity in line with Strategy Category Plan, providing insight and local market intelligence, as required
- Responsible for sourcing any local and regional spend in line with the SCP
- Responsible for implementing the relevant global contracts sourced by the Strategic Buyer
- Responsible for the Contract and Supplier Relationship Management activities for the contracts created at a global and regional level
- Responsible for Regional/Local one-off purchase sourcing and order placement by exception where this cannot be carried out by the Operational Buying team (i.e. language, local market Intelligence, cultural)
- Responsible for escalation of significant contractual issues to the Strategic Buyer

Key Performance Indicators:
- Savings in line with the savings target (Budgetary and Value Add) for their local / Regional Sourcing activities
- Contract Management KPI’s and supplier performance (Change management, ongoing cost performance,
- Problem resolution timing etc.
- Supplier Relationship KPI’s (completion of Supplier Relationship Performance Surveys, supplier business reviews)
- Sourcing timing for local / Regional Contracts over GSP threshold

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
Category Strategy
- Responsible for reviewing the Strategic Category Plan
- Support local Stakeholder alignment in relation to strategy creation and implementation of the categories

Sourcing
- Responsible for delivering sourcing of local/regional suppliers in line with SCP
- Responsible for Regional/Local one-off purchase sourcing and order placement by exception where this cannot be carried out by the Operational Buying team (i.e. language, local market Intelligence, cultural, systems)
- Responsible for Global Sourcing Approach Document (GSAD) submission and GSP process adherence for the regional and local sourcing
- Ensure alignment with Global Category Leads and Strategic Buyers to ensure strategic / tactical sourcing is in line with strategy for the regional and local sourcing
- Identify Make vs Buy and business justification when required and support analysis for regional and local sourcing
- Responsible for supply chain risk management for the regional and local sourcing
- Engage with specialist functions where required GPF, Risk, OGC
- Maintain lead for supplier interaction

Contract Management
- Responsible for managing dispute resolution process
- Responsible for the Change Management of the contracts and Purchase Orders
- Lead continuous improvement /benchmarking and implementation of the

improvements
- Responsible for resolution of identified problems
- Responsible for on-boarding Suppliers into the BAU environment as required
- Support Financial reconciliation activities, as required
- Lead Stakeholder alignment to confirm ongoing service satisfaction
- Responsible for conducting contract audit/reviews in line with requirements
- Responsible for adhering to the client Contract Management guide

Supplier Relationship Management
- Responsible for conducting the Supplier Relationship Performance Survey (SRPS)
- Responsible for maintaining the SRPS actions plans and working with suppliers and internal stakeholders to complete the actions
- Responsible for ensuring the Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Performance Management processes are carried out effectively for their category
- Responsible for organising and conducting the Supplier business reviews, capture the minutes and actions and work with suppliers and internal stakeholders to complete these actions
- Responsible for input to the Supplier Excellence Awards

Key Interactions
- Stakeholders / Budget holders / Requisitioner departments
- Suppliers within category - normally account / operations director
- Finance controller for project / programme or requisitioner functional area
- External Industry forums
- OGC
- Supplier Risk Team
- Regional Buying Teams
- GPF

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- An individual who is results driven, demonstrates, tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment.
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience preferred
- Commercial Awareness and Negotiation skills
- Understand category management principles
- Global business understanding and experience
- Operational Contract Management experience
- Relationship management - internal and external
- Flexibility and agility to be able to adjust to changing business needs
- Ability to travel internationally

Desirable:
- Experience of stakeholder operational deployment / requirements of category (e.g. has worked in the stakeholder area of the specific category)
- Category knowledge and demonstrated experience
- Previous supplier experience within category
- Relevant professional qualification

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally with in the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.