Contracts Advisor

Procurement

* Applies Contracts & Procurement processes in alignment with corporate guidelines, and local jurisdictional requirements.

* Develops effective relationships with internal business leaders to understand business requirements, to forecast demand, and to verify established contracts are effective.

* Develops collaborative relationships with suppliers to ensure optimum delivery quality and sustained performance in line with business objectives.

* Supports Contracts & Procurement Leadership teams to provide insight into the current activities and initiatives.

* Identifies and implements Contracts improvement initiatives

* Work collaboratively across Supply Chain (Region, Global and across sub-functions) and operational stakeholders to develop and execute category strategies

* Deliver sustainable unit cost reduction through developing and executing category strategies

* Ensure category strategy alignment to strategies for categories monitored at a global level

* Drive collaboration across the region to identify and execute opportunities to reduce external spend through demand, price and productivity (technology) levers

Sourcing Strategy and Planning

* Develops and executes sourcing activities contributing to the Supply Sourcing Plan.

* Collects requirements and analyses key data inputs from multiple sources (internal and external) to build robust category and sourcing strategies with a near, mid- and longterm outlook.

* Develops category strategies that minimize supply risk to the business, optimize cost and contribute to process automation.

* Validates category strategies and contract coverage to support the Business Strategies and budget.

* Plans and executes portfolio of sourcing projects enabling category strategies and manage on-time delivery minimizing disruption to the business operations.

* Executes activities that contribute to National content commitments.

* Develops sourcing and negotiation strategies using market intelligence and best practice tools such as should cost modelling, e-Auctions, TCO analysis 2/2

* Negotiates with suppliers & executing tenders of strategic subcategories to reduce total cost to the business

* Ensures integration of the category strategy across Supply (Purchasing, inventory and warehousing) to ensure lowest inbound supply chain cost

Tender and Contract Management

* Develops, publishes and manages tenders and their commercial evaluation in line with sourcing projects.

* Coordinates the technical and any other non-commercial evaluation of tenders prior to negotiation.

* Conducts and leads negotiations with suppliers post tender evaluation.

* Creates, manages and monitors contracts.

* Performs contract variations in line with business requirements.

* Develops cost optimization strategies that deliver cost savings.

Supplier Management

* Manages assigned portfolio of suppliers supporting the business ensuring optimal usage.

* Performs supplier selection, qualification & on-boarding in line with local requirements and regulation.

* Executes supplier performance reviews to track performance with contract and business requirements.

* Designs and implements supplier development and recognition programs to maintain effective value-based relationships.

* Collaborates with Inventory Analysis and Optimization to maintain accurate lead times with Suppliers.

* Resolves supplier performance issues and escalations.