Global Indirect Procurement Senior Manager, VM & Print

Estée Lauder Companies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Estée Lauder Companies seeks a Global Indirect Procurement Senior Manager to lead regional Spend Area priorities across Greater London and the UK. You will partner with regional and local teams, affiliates, and finance to drive value in temporary fixtures, prints, premiums, and related subcategories.

The role focuses on supplier management, contract execution, and advancing sustainability and supplier inclusion while orchestrating SRM and RFX processes at regional scale.

Qualifications

• Procurement experience in indirect procurement, especially Print, Premiums, GWP, and visual merchandising.
• Strong experience in Spend Area Execution and region-wide sourcing.
• Excellent collaboration and ability to coordinate in a matrix team environment.
• Strategic thinking to contribute to Spend Area strategy execution.
• Strong stakeholder relationship management and presentation skills.
• Ability to build and execute regional RFPs for Visual Merchandising and SRM.
• Familiarity with procurement tools and performance dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Build the execution plan for temporary Fixtures & Print & Premiums aligned with Stores Value Chain strategy.
• Develop pipeline of sourcing initiatives for regional subcategories.
• Track and manage Key Cost & Cash Targets and payment terms.
• Manage supplier relationships (SRM) with regional stakeholders; conduct business reviews.
• Drive Sustainability, Innovation, and Supplier Inclusion & Diversity guidelines.
• Develop category expertise and stay updated on market trends and best practices.
• Support procurement standards, processes, tools, and policies across regions.
• Lead regional sourcing and management of RFX activity.
• Maintain and improve the preferred vendor list to optimize the supplier base.
• Deploy robust contracts with clear stakeholder visibility and adoption.
• Participate in Global RFX on an ad-hoc basis.
• Ensure data accuracy and benchmarking for Spend Area performance.
• Evolve the Print catalog and drive demand management opportunities.
• Strengthen cross-functional partnerships with clear communication.
• Manage dashboards (KPI, savings) and identify risks/opportunities.

Skills

Procurement

Spend Area Execution

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Thinking

Project Management

RFP / SRM

Archlet

Tools

Archlet

Job description

Description

The Global Indirect Procurement Senior Manager will manage the scope of the Spend Area priorities for a geographic region. This role will identify and partner with key stakeholder groups: Regional and local RDDC, Affiliates, and as well as finance, legal, supply etc

Role Responsibilities:

• Build the execution plan for temporary Fixtures & Print & Premiums in line with the Stores Value Chain strategy. It is critical this is a collaborative effort in close collaboration, reducing duplicates, waste and streamlining future vendor engagements.
• Develop the pipeline of sourcing initiatives and opportunities for subcategories within region, according to the overall Spend Area strategy and priorities
• Key Cost & Cash Targets: tracking and proactively managing throughout the year to ensure the achievement of the target , including payment terms.
• Manage supplier relationships (SRM), for strategic relationships in collaboration with key stakeholders; this includes conducting bi-annual business reviews and evaluating opportunities & business satisfaction, in order to develop further the Spend Area.
• Drive the agenda on Sustainability, Innovation, and Supplier Inclusion & Diversity principals and guidelines, in respect to the responsible sub-categories
• Subject matter expert (SME): Develop expertise in the categories in scope, leveraging external sources, understanding the market, ELC competition and industry best practice.
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of procurement standards (SRM etc), processes, tools (and policies.

Strategy Implementation & Execution and New Sourcing Activities.

• Execution of pipeline or identification of new projects sourcing projects as aligned with stakeholders ensuring business sponsorship
• Regionally lead sourcing, and management of RFX activity.
• Maintain and improve the preferred vendor list with a key focus to manage/reduce the tail of the supplier base
• Robust contract development and deployment ensuring visibility of final agreement for stakeholder adoption and roll out.
• Participation / leading of Global RFX within overall Spend Area on an ad-hoc basis

Long Description

Spend Area specific:

• Responsible for data accuracy and benchmarking
• Continuous evolution of the Print catalog
• Demand management opportunities and execution

Stakeholder Management

• Actively participate and contribute to the continued development of our stakeholder partnership
• Strong communication and collaboration to drive projects with clarity and engagement
• Interpret stakeholder and business needs with an enterprise mindset in driving projects forward
• Project & change management with excellence.

SRM

• SRM in respect to target suppliers, degree of SRM applied and cadence.
• Continuous review of service delivery to have a positive impact on the quality and the improvement of the performances as well as to seek further value creations and cost optimizations
• Key focus on business continuity, due diligence and market intelligence and trends. Ensuring supplier evolution and alternatives are assessed in collaboration with the business.
• continuous monitoring and improvement of the existing Rate Cards (price grids) / panel of preferred vendor list
• Ensure the implementation of contractual agreements (MSA /SOW) amendments and adoption by stakeholder groups

Cross functional/ individual

• Introduce and/or contribute to cross-functional projects.
• Introduce and/or participate in the continuous improvement of our processes and procurement performances.
• Ensure the management of internal dashboards (KPI, savings etc) as required and identify the 'upside' opportunity and potential risk and blocking points
• Where required, manage ad-hoc projects in cases of overcapacity/ risk elsewhere in GSM IP
• Actively participate in training and continual professional development. Ensuring all mandatory trainings is completed.

Qualifications

• Procurement experience, ideally in Indirect Procurement particularly experience in Print, Premiums, GWP, Temporary Visual Merchandising,
• Procurement skills are a prerequisite for this role, strong experience and expertise in Spend Area Execution
• Excellent collaboration, team ethic and ability to coordinate in a matrix team environment within Spend Area and Affiliates in region.
• Strategic thinking. This role contributes and supports the in the development and execution of the Spend Area strategy for the scope.
• Strong stakeholder relationship management capability, including proficient communication and presentation skills. This role will be responsible to build and execute regional RFPs for Visual Merchandising and Regional Print & Premiums SRM for preferred vendor panel.
• Strong project management skills: flexibility and capacity to adapt to changing project circumstances. Rigor and organization to manage simultaneous projects in an efficient manner. Ability to use sourcing tools such as Archlet.
• Excellent analytical skills to evaluate RFI, RFP; detailed comparison / should cost modelling / TCO. Building relevant score cards based on the predefined criteria with the business