Global Procurement

As a member of the SGS Global Procurement & Real Estate team, this role is focused on following up and supporting countries Procurement & Real Estate departments to achieve their targets and constantly improve, while staying aligned with SGS Procurement & Real Estate agenda.

Responsibilities:

• Animate and align assigned countries on Global and Local Procurement & Real estate agendas
• Active partnering in countries, including participation to local management team meetings and local Procurement committees when relevant
• Engage frequently with respective local and regional finance managers
• Align and validate countries targets year on year
• Monthly follow-up with all assigned countries
• Provide mentoring, coaching and intelligence as required on categories to support pipeline development and execution
• Validate reported savings and take accountability for countries performances
• Ensure consistency of global and local Procurement & Real Estate activities
• This role also entails the negotiation and follow-up of competitive deals:
• Together with procurement teams and various stakeholders, develops a pipeline of sourcing projects based on internal and external analysis and fully aligned with the stakeholders’ requirements
• Ensures tenders are executed in a way that they deliver best value (price / product or service) with minimum risk to SGS
• Ensure that the procurement process is run in the most efficient way and according to SGS standards
• Evaluate the proposals and make recommendations
• Prepare negotiation strategy
• Involves all parties that need to bring input or participate in decisions
• Pro-actively and effectively collaborate with relevant internal stakeholders that need to bring input and take decisions
• Accountable for contract finalization and related timelines
• Initiate implementation of the contract when required and follows up on the progress
• Ensures that price evolution during the contract life cycle is aligned with procurement objectives guaranteeing price competitiveness and stability, by constantly monitoring the market evolution and challenging contracted suppliers
• Conducts regular performance reviews with suppliers to review the evolution of relationship and spend, ensure compliance with the contracts and relevant SLAs
• Assist business when required in the operational supplier relationship management

• University degree in Business Administration, Procurement or Supply Chain
• Proven strong negotiation and contractual experience, both at strategic and operational levels
• Very good understanding of contract laws and standard forms of contracts
• Strategic thinker but also hands-on - “roll up the sleeves” mentality is crucial
• Strong Leadership, Influencing and Change Management skills to work in a matrix organization
• Clear and fast thinker able to talk “stakeholder language” and convince them
• Entrepreneurial skills, allowing to take independent decisions when appropriate
• Pragmatic, self-starter, efficient and highly driven by objectives
• Strong but diplomatic personality with high ambitions, able to build trust, respect and confidence
• Acts quickly and decisively, able to make tough calls
• Ability to work under pressure with shifting priorities, interacting, and adjusting to diverse cultures and time-zones
• Full fluency in English and Spanish
• Ability to collaborate fully virtually with teams, stakeholders and suppliers
• Very good Excel and data management skills
• Excellent interpersonal communications and presentation skills
• Detail and process-oriented, and analytical with strong work organization capability
• Teamwork and oriented to internal customer service
• At least ten years of experience in a strategic Procurement role in a multinational organization