Key Accountabilities:
- Delivery of the cost savings and cash objectives.
- Developing and implementing strategies for the procurement of the respective categories.
- Supplier relationship management and service development.
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Handling professionally diverse customer supplier or operational issues when they arise.- Identifying metrics, tools and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies.
- Supporting development and implementation of Unilever procurement strategies/policies.
- Handling 3PL benchmark studies, market research and tender management in TUI region.
- Execute procurement and sourcing strategies for categories under management.
- Ensuring that logistics procurement projects are in line with company policies and safety&security standards.
- Identify opportunities and conduct projects to generate cost saving, cash and value-added advantages for categories under management.
- Analyze demand, markets and suppliers to create logistics procurement strategy.
- Follow company rules for risk and contract management.
- Analyzing scope of supply and contract agreements, carrying out risk analyses and introducing negotiation recommendations to prepare for negotiations with suppliers and to initiate appropriate measure
- Prepare and conduct negotiations and tenders and manage commercial relationships with new and existing suppliers.
- Develop partnerships and negotiate pricing, NDA’s, Master Agreements, Amendments, Addendums and renewals with vendors aligning both local and global teams.
- Deliver on key financial targets such as savings and cash flow improvement by applying smart buying tools.
- Understand and manage the expectation of internal stakeholders, provide procurement support for them
- Working closely with operation team, legal, quality, Safety&Security teams both local and global level.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Scope: Responsible of 50 m € spend at TUI region.
- Support to deliver Global logistics strategies and implement in local business.( WCL, LSSS, etc. )
- Learning local business needs and requirements. Develop strong and effective interfaces to be connect to company needs.
- Support & Lead the negotiations, develop strong relationship with suppliers & learn their market abilities.
- Building logistics strategic plan in respective region.
- Constant Explore and analyze saving opportunities to generate sustainable savings.
- Building the whole infrastructure for successful negotiation with supplier.
- Analyzing supplier's behavior, spend, and past performance.
- Verifying supplier compliance, Audits required date as integral part of negotiation.( Usqs, rsp, etc. )
- Seeking for new development areas with supplier.
- Assessing, identify and select the appropriate supplier base that would meet the needs of the business.
- Generate local contracts via CLM, Jaggaer, etc systems.
- Fully ensuring supplier compliance.
- Seeking for alternative suppliers to build and maintain resilient, agile and effective supplier pool.
- Participating to regular telecons with global logistics teams.
- Developing safety, Co2 emission, efficiency etc. strategies with suppliers and support global logistics road map at local level.
- Supporting global team to have a better understanding on local business requirements and special needs.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Procurement is preferable.
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong business acumen
- Ability to work in a fast paced, high change environment.
- Analytical thinking and proven ability to solve problems and sustain results through a data driven process
- Fluency in English and Turkish is a must.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills in English
- Negotiation & commercial skills
- Efficient Time management – Multitasking
- Able to work with a variety of IT systems and have a strong knowledge of Excel & Power point
- Strong on execution, have analytical skills and be pro-active.
- Working independently and virtually.
- Able to build relationships with people across the business (internally & externally).
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