Group Procurement Category Lead

HAYS Poland jest firmą doradztwa personalnego, należącą do międzynarodowej grupy HAYS plc, notowanej na giełdzie w Londynie i największej firmy rekrutacyjnej w Wielkiej Brytanii.

Grupa posiada ponad 390 biur w 27 krajach na całym świecie, w których łącznie pracuje 8 300 specjalistów. Jest liderem w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej, Azji, Ameryce Południowej, Australii, Nowej Zelandii, Chinach, Japonii, Hong Kongu i Kanadzie.

• Responsible for developing and implementing a 3-5 year category plan for the given sub-category
• Responsible for developing and implementing local and global sourcing strategies for all external spend related activity.
• To manage stakeholder relationships in all operating companies, ensuring appropriately robust challenge whilst delivering the operating companies’ business plans
• To manage supplier risk in order to protect the operating companies and group from financial, operational and reputational damage
• Provide commercial innovation to internal stakeholders through interaction with the supply base
• Works with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve commercial and contractual disputes, particularly those suppliers which have high complexity and/or high spend
• Support group company’s tier 1 (high strategic/high risk/high spend) projects
• Work with strategic suppliers to grow and develop supplier markets
• Through liaison with the Procurement Operations Centre and operating company stakeholders, ensure supplier performance management is robust, effective and compliant
• Works alongside business areas to identify, challenge, harmonize and simplify specifications and processes across Operating Companies to ensure that group buying power is maximized.
• Ensures that all procurement activity is carried out in line with Group and Operating Company governance principles.
• Develops effective working relations with key interfaces across Group and Operating Companies including line, Finance, legal and other stakeholders.
• Takes an active role in cross-departmental strategic and leadership activities.

• Degree and/or ability to demonstrate strong knowledge of working in international procurement environment.

• Senior level experience of partnering with Senior Leaders and Executives in a fast moving agile business environment.
• Senior level experience in Procurement gathered in a complex global organization.
• Strong demonstrable commercial expertise including contract negotiation and dispute resolutions.
• Experience of working in an environment of change involving people, process, policy and technology.
• Experience managing teams for success across multiple countries and cultures.
• Strong aptitude and knowledge across full commodity life cycle and awareness of market trends and suppliers.
• Excellent people manager with ability to inspire, lead, build and deliver through high performance teams.
• Strong business and financial acumen with ability to evaluate, analyse and solve problems.
• Ability to influence, align diverse views and gain consensus, providing clarity and direction on what is to be achieved and break down barriers that get in way of effective team working.
• Ability to prioritise, maintain clear focus and provide direction in constant ambiguity and change, using knowledge, judgment, resilience and courage to resolve conflicting priorities and manage crises.
• Ability to operate effectively in an environment with tight deadlines and finite resource and uncertainty.
• Excellent sponsorship and stakeholder management skills across a diverse geographic region and at multiple levels, with the gravitas to engage with and influence senior stakeholders.
• Commitment to service excellence and process improvement.
• Fluency in English. Fluency in Spanish would be an advantage.
• Flexibility in terms of the base location setup including ability to travel between Group locations as per business requirements.