Overview
The role is to manage the Fleet procurement within Logistics & Distribution team for North America
The person must drive value on total Fleet procurement spend through category expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and relationship with internal/external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Data collection and detailed analyses to support local business stakeholders in driving procurement strategy
- Analyze current sourcing footprint, develop sourcing vision, and provide improvements
- Data collection on spend, and understanding spend insights
- Market intelligence of the category in related BU
- Design workshops with local and regional business stakeholders to align overall procurement objectives
- Identify trends and patterns in spend data to proactively propose cost-saving opportunities and risk mitigation
- Conduct deep-dive analyses into supply chain bottlenecks and risks, proposing long-term solutions
- Maintain and improve supplier performance scorecards based on procurement metrics and business impact
- Lead supplier selection process
- Tender design
- Analyses of RFX responses and shorten the list of suppliers.
- Organize / Facilitate supplier negotiations [Strategic decisions to be led/taken at BU level by BU associates]
- Consolidate scenarios to be defended on final review with internal partners
- Develop and execute advanced multi-scenario tender strategies to evaluate supplier risk vs. value
- Conduct supplier due diligence, focusing on sustainability, ESG compliance, and geopolitical risk factors
- Lead contracting
- Review current contracts
- Establish updated terms in line with RFX outcomes, support the negotiation of terms with internal partners and suppliers.
- Ongoing administration of compliance and tracking.
- Supplier information management
- Support sector colleagues in high-complexity, multi-market, or multi-year contracts, factoring in currency risks, inflation, and market volatility
- Proactively manage supplier relationships t