Manager, Procurement

Randstad; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad seeks a Strategic Supplier Manager to lead supply chain management for APAC/Global client portfolios and to manage relationships with APAC/Global suppliers and operating companies. The role sits on the Extended SCM Leadership Team, line-managing several suppliers and aligning objectives with client delivery, SRM and governance across regions.

You will deploy supplier strategy, ensure governance, provide Data as a service, and collaborate with Sales, Solution Design, SP360 and Operations

Responsibilities

• Define organizational objectives with Global SCM Leadership Team and key business leaders, clients and suppliers, and create strategy and improvement programs.
• Deliver 'Data as a service' for clients by using global supplier spend to drive insights and value.
• Oversee supplier relationship management for identified RSR suppliers.
• Ongoing client delivery for platinum and gold package clients.

Job description

Every year, we help hundreds of thousands of people find rewarding jobs in the ever-changing world of work.

We understand the importance of a job in peoples lifes and we want to help them find work that feels good. And we'll help them continue to grow as their needs and ambitions change.

At Randstad, our value comes from our people and that is why we put them first. We are proud of our learning culture and career architecture framework that encourages ours team to develop both personally and professionally.

We believe that talent grows when presented with opportunity and this is why we encourage our people to think beyond their role. We have created a culture that enables talent to flourish, encouraging entrepreneurship, fostering team spirit, and continually building mutual trust.

Strategic Supplier Manager

JOB SUMMARY:

This role will be responsible for the supply chain management activity in relation to RSR's APAC/Global client portfolio and relationship management of RSR's APAC/Global suppliers and specific operating companies. As part of the Extended SCM Leadership Team, this role will line manage and lead a number of suppliers in the performance of these activities. This role will be responsible for ensuring suppliers have clear objectives, focused on customer & the respective performance objectives are aligned to overall team strategy and have broader alignment with the leadership team within the APAC & Global function. For Client Delivery, this role will be responsible for ensuring that Platinum and Gold clients are provided a Supply Chain service in line with the aforementioned service packages which they have contracted for with RSR. For Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), this role will be responsible for deploying the agreed supplier relationship management strategy on the specified grouping of suppliers (and operating companies), and for deploying the governance and management structure to ensure RSR is extracting the very best from these suppliers to the benefit of RSR and its clients. For both of SRM and Client Delivery, this role will be responsible for ensuring the provision of 'Data as a service' to its stakeholder group - utilising RSR's global supplier spend to drive data insights which feed business strategy (including Wallet Share), client problem solving, supplier value and commercial benefit to RSR and its clients. This role will be responsible for working with the Implementations and Operations tower to ensure that RSR preferred suppliers (including operating companies) are promoted to clients as part of Supplier Strategy conversations during the Discovery Phase of client implementations. This role will be responsible for working with the SCM Implementations and Operations tower to monitor delivery against relevant streams of activity being delivered by SCM Operations, and to support delivery on a roadmap of operations projects and initiatives to continually improve and build upon existing SCM operations. With regards to both existing and new Clients, this role will partner with RSR leaders in Sales, Solution Design, SP360 and Operations to ensure alignment with key business functions on all relevant matters relating to preferred suppliers and SCM delivery on Platinum and Gold client accounts. This role will support sales processes to ensure clients are aware of the Supply Chain value proposition for ongoing supply chain support and how RSR's preferred supply base can be utilised to solve client problems.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Helping define organizational objectives in partnership with the Global SCM Leadership Team, key business leaders, clients and suppliers, and creating team strategy, policy and improvement programs accordingly.
• Responsible for delivering 'Data as a service' in relation to Clients - utilising RSR's global supplier spend to drive data insights which feed business strategy, client problem solving, supplier value and commercial benefit to RSR and its client.
• Responsible for all Supply Chain activities in relation to supplier relationship management of identified RSR suppliers.
• Responsible for ongoing client delivery for 'platinum' and 'gold' package clients.

Disclaimer: The information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees in the job.

• Building strong relationships with clients to ensure they are drawing on the full power of RSR's supply base.
• Fostering strategic relationships with key internal stakeholders and external clients as part of the sales and solutioning process.
• Assisting in the build out and leadership of a team which is akin to a high perform