Procurement Manager Operations North
For our Antwerp office, we are looking for a Procurement Manager Operations North . In this role you ensure that the goods and services needed by the companies of Equans BeLux are provided in time, with the right quality, and in alignment with the business and procurement targets including Group strategy, while mitigating the risks, respecting the Group HSE, ethical and CSR principles and capturing innovation.
Your main accountabilities:
contribute to the operationalization and implementation of the mission, strategy and objectives setting of Procurement BeLux
manage the request-to-pay activities within your scope and collaborate with other Procurement teams and other stakeholders to ensure end-to-end service delivery of business and procurement targets, in line with procurement governancemanage a team of purchasing admin and buyers that manage purchasing requests in line with purchasing policy and service levels (ensure competition where needed, negotiate, contracting, )manage a team of purchasing admin and buyers that handles mainly files <= K that works in the following sites: Zwijndrecht, Aartselaar, Brussel, Grimbergen, Houthalen, Wetterenget the work done by the Procurement Operations North and South team in the most efficient while optimising the workload, increasing transversal uniform way of working , guaranteeing qualitative output while working for and close to the business; including:
apply the proper procurement policies and processes in order to achieve the goals set for the organizationcommunicate and apply Group and Equans BeLux procurement governance throughout the organization and towards internal and external stakeholders
apply procurement methodology and use procurement tools (supported by Procurement Excellence)
coach other (lead) buyer profiles (where relevant/needed)
support to increase the visibility of the procurement activity and organization (internal and external)
work towards, follow-up and report on procurement savings targets in your scopeensure that the savings are reported according to the required guidelinescontribute to delivery of business and procurement targets
Roles - next to the main accountabilities, perform (a selection of) roles within the Procurement organization:
manage contract lifecycle of existing contracts (contract renewal, contract optimization,)negotiate and manage new (recurrent) contractssupport other roles (PPL, SME,) with contract management expertise and administration expertiseact as moderator in discussions between internal clients and supplierscollaborate with other Procurement teams to ensure contract management in line with procurement governance (e.g. negotiate catalogs with supplier and inform analyst for upload)
develop and maintain expertise (market knowledge, innovations,) in one or more procurement (sub)categoriessupport other roles (CM, PPL, CLB,) where recommended with your (category) expertisemanage main negotiations in your domainsupport category activities in line with Group requirements (activities are defined by Equans group and aligned with Equans BeLux)
manage category in line with Group requirementsgeographical scope is broader than BeLux
apply the SRM governance to suppliers within your scopemanage supplier (relationship) reviews (where reviews are required) (including up-to-date supplier card,)
You report to a Head of procurement operations.
What do you need to excel in this job?
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