Global Procurement

hace 6 meses


Buenos Aires, Argentina SGS A tiempo completo

**Company Description**
We are SGS - the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for sustainability, quality and integrity. Our 99,600 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories, working together to enable a better, safer and more interconnected world

As a member of the SGS Global Procurement & Real Estate team, this role is focused on following up and supporting countries Procurement & Real Estate departments to achieve their targets and constantly improve, while staying aligned with SGS Procurement & Real Estate agenda.

**Responsibilities**:

- Animate and align assigned countries on Global and Local Procurement & Real estate agendas
- Active partnering in countries, including participation to local management team meetings and local Procurement committees when relevant
- Engage frequently with respective local and regional finance managers
- Align and validate countries targets year on year
- Monthly follow-up with all assigned countries
- Provide mentoring, coaching and intelligence as required on categories to support pipeline development and execution
- Validate reported savings and take accountability for countries performances
- Ensure consistency of global and local Procurement & Real Estate activities
- This role also entails the negotiation and follow-up of competitive deals:

- Together with procurement teams and various stakeholders, develops a pipeline of sourcing projects based on internal and external analysis and fully aligned with the stakeholders’ requirements
- Ensures tenders are executed in a way that they deliver best value (price / product or service) with minimum risk to SGS
- Ensure that the procurement process is run in the most efficient way and according to SGS standards
- Evaluate the proposals and make recommendations
- Prepare negotiation strategy
- Involves all parties that need to bring input or participate in decisions
- Pro-actively and effectively collaborate with relevant internal stakeholders that need to bring input and take decisions
- Accountable for contract finalization and related timelines
- Initiate implementation of the contract when required and follows up on the progress
- Ensures that price evolution during the contract life cycle is aligned with procurement objectives guaranteeing price competitiveness and stability, by constantly monitoring the market evolution and challenging contracted suppliers
- Conducts regular performance reviews with suppliers to review the evolution of relationship and spend, ensure compliance with the contracts and relevant SLAs
- Assist business when required in the operational supplier relationship management

**Qualifications**
- University degree in Business Administration, Procurement or Supply Chain
- Proven strong negotiation and contractual experience, both at strategic and operational levels
- Very good understanding of contract laws and standard forms of contracts
- Strategic thinker but also hands-on - “roll up the sleeves” mentality is crucial
- Strong Leadership, Influencing and Change Management skills to work in a matrix organization
- Clear and fast thinker able to talk “stakeholder language” and convince them
- Entrepreneurial skills, allowing to take independent decisions when appropriate
- Pragmatic, self-starter, efficient and highly driven by objectives
- Strong but diplomatic personality with high ambitions, able to build trust, respect and confidence
- Acts quickly and decisively, able to make tough calls
- Ability to work under pressure with shifting priorities, interacting, and adjusting to diverse cultures and time-zones
- Full fluency in English and Spanish
- Ability to collaborate fully virtually with teams, stakeholders and suppliers
- Very good Excel and data management skills
- Excellent interpersonal communications and presentation skills
- Detail and process-oriented, and analytical with strong work organization capability
- Teamwork and oriented to internal customer service
- At least ten years of experience in a strategic Procurement role in a multinational organization



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