Regional strategic procurement category manager

Job title: Regional strategic procurement category manager

Company: CETIN


Job description: Job Description:

• Develop comprehensive understanding of the assigned category, contribute to end to end strategy development and perform analysis to support strategy work, establish and drive overarching programs between different sub-categories
• Collaborate with functional stakeholders for preparing and executing the strategy, innovative analysis and proactively addressing procurement needs
• Identify, lead and execute cost saving initiatives that deliver value in the procurement of goods and services for the company
• Implementation of category sourcing strategy and skilled approach to vendor management
• Ensure compliance with policies, processes and achieve targets
• Understand supply market and perform thorough supplier prequalification for the category
• Selection of the vendors and suppliers of the key Telecom Network and/or IT technologies
• Preparation and leading of the tendering process with regional scope including preparation of selection criteria and contract preparation and negotiations
• Responsibility for finalization of the contracts
• Developing the sourcing strategy for tenders in question
• Supporting the local procurement teams in respective countries
• Sharing the „Best Practices“, experiences and knowledge with team members across the region
• Daily communication with suppliers, vendors, internal customers and management
• Maintain the business relationship with the key vendors and suppliers
• Handle dispute with regional suppliers
• Support of local procurement teams in the individual countries

Candidate experiences and skills:

• 5+ years experiences with technology procurement
• Result oriented, demonstrating excellent collaboration abilities
• Able to work with a high degree of execution power and passion
• Experience with procurement category management is a must
• Experience with regional procurement in multinational environment is a great advantage
• Experience with preparation and negotiation of the highly complex contracts
• Extensive negotiation and presentation skills, experience with tools for price negotiations and commercial conditions
• Carefulness, invention, communicativeness, organizational skills, analytical skills, ability to work in team
• Very good knowledge of the MS Office
• Fluent business English in a level to lead meetings, presentations, negotiations and contract preparation
• Strong ability to communicate and interact effectively across organizational and cultural boundaries, internal and external
• Customer centric attitude & approach

What we offer:

• Attractive work for the largest Czech telecommunications company that is part of PPF Group
• Background of a large and stable company, the possibility of personal and professional development
• Possibility to cooperate with professionals in the field and gain new interesting knowledge and experience
• Adequate and motivating financial remuneration
• With us you will find a really friendly team and professional approach
• Above-standard employee benefits (for example: flexible working hours, mobile phone with unlimited data, discounts for family and friends, extra week of vacation, 3 Sick days a year, 18 000 benefit points, internet contribution, and many more).

Expected salary:

Location: Praha

Job date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:55:26 GMT

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