Business Procurement Manager
4 weeks ago
We currently have an excellent opportunity for a Business Procurement Manager to join our team in Southampton. The primary goal of the function is to strategize, manage, and advise on all procurement-related issues within the designated region/pillar for regional and local management. With a primary focus on improving business efficiency and implementing category strategy, you will collaborate with a strategic and complex stakeholder group while also managing the business's daily procurement needs and a team of 2.
About The Role
How will you contribute:
- Stakeholder Engagement and Local Expertise:Act as the primary procurement partner for stakeholders (heads of department and their delegated persons), understanding their business needs and be visible and accessible for all procurement topics.
- Maintain expertise in the regional market landscape and local procurement practices.
- Liaise with Finance Department to ensure accurate and timely payment of invoices, as necessary for the business with the supplier.
- Supplier Management and Contract Handling:Manage supplier relationships at a tactical and operational level. Including visits, reviews, risk assessments and resolving procurement issues
- Oversee the tendering and contract approval processes in collaboration with the business stakeholders and the legal department.
- Discuss defective or unacceptable new goods or services with users, vendors, and others to determine cause of problem and take corrective and preventative action.
- Ensure supplier compliance with site and company requirements for safety & sustainability are included in the on-boarding new suppliers.
- Implement a Supplier Performance Management approach.
- Category Strategy and Improvement Initiatives:Execute agreed European category strategies within DP World Southampton.
- Collaborate with central category procurement to implement improvements and innovations.
- Develop and implement local category strategies, leading cross-functional teams as needed.
- Cost Management and Reduction Strategies:Develop and implement annual cost reduction strategies.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for commodity and supplier improvements.
- Negotiate pricing to ensure the lowest cost and source new business opportunities.
- Management of the procurement of parts and services on a just-in-time basis within defined quality parameters and best price to ensure the terminal achieves its performance objectives.
- Operational Procurement:Ensure timely delivery of inventory, assets, and services to agreed specifications.
- Manage and coach direct reports, providing daily feedback and guidance.
- Purchase materials and services, ensuring the lowest total cost of acquisition.
- Train operational purchasing requisitioners and record key procurement metrics.
What will you Bring.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
- Proven track record of procurement experience directly or indirectly with respect to a container terminal operation, oil & gas industry, chemical process industry, or heavy industrial plant machinery.
- International procurement experience would be beneficial.
- Technical Engineering knowledge of drawings and engineering technical specifications.
- Experience with managing a team of procurement specialists.
- Thorough understanding of software applications for purchasing such as IBM Maximo and Oracle Fusion
- Certified or actively seeking certification in National Purchasing Management Association, CIPS or similar (Desired but not essential)
- Ability to implement and execute central category strategy.
- Experienced in dealing with stakeholders on a strategic level.
- Strong negotiation and analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills - written and oral to deal with a wide range of customers-both internal and external.
NOTE: All our roles are subject to the below:
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Ability to travel to our other port when necessary.
- We may close our roles early, depending on the number of applications received.
- A full valid UK driving licence or appropriate international licence allowing you to drive on UK roads.
- No unspent criminal convictions
Compensation
DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.
About DP World
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for millions of people around the world. DP World is here to make trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally. With more than 106,500 employees across 73 countries, we are pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future. By integrating our physical infrastructure with cutting-edge technology, we create efficient end-to-end solutions, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.
We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses - Ports and Terminals, Economic Zones, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.
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