This role will be the lead for Direct and Indirect Procurement and focus on building strategy, delivering smart spend management, enabling innovation and building quality partnerships, both internally and externally.

• To lead the team to drive cost optimization, productivity saving and lead the process of sourcing execution to ensure delivery of the category strategy and targets against requisite timeframes
• Apply global policies, standards and platforms including the agreed strategic sourcing process to deliver robust terms and conditions that leads Procurement’s service delivery and commercial risk
• Ensuring and implement sustainability policy and corporate social responsibility program while dealing with third party management (where applicable)
• Be responsible for the execution of category strategies and development of sourcing plans at end market level
• To review and update sourcing plans on a periodic basis in alignment with the release of new updated category strategies
• Pro-actively share knowledge, best practices amongst the members of the Procurement community and identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities
• Build strong internal and external business relationships to ensure the delivery of the category strategy
• Act as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) within the region, global, where required, and input into supplier business reviews

• Bachelor’s degree in Economy, Business, Supply Chain or similar
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Procurement or other related experience with a minimum of 2 years leading category/team
• High level of commercial awareness and project Management
• Strong business acumen and interpersonal & communication skills
• A focus on service delivery and savings along with the ability to drive innovation and change
• An advanced knowledge of procurement processes, methods, and techniques, including advanced negotiation& influencing skills
• Ability to perform in complex cross-functional, global, business environment and handle multiple tasks successfully
• Detailed knowledge of supply market, supplier capabilities, competitor activity, and expected trends at a geographic