Strategic Procurement Manager

HP; Las Fuentes; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

HP seeks a Strategic Procurement Manager to lead a complex sub-category, crafting sourcing strategies aligned with business goals. You will analyze data and industry trends, influencing senior leaders and market players while negotiating contracts and guiding supplier relationships.

You will work with cross-functional teams to optimize processes, manage risk, and ensure procurement policies and compliance are met across large suppliers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong ability to analyze data and present insights.
• Experience in procurement or supply chain is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads a complex supply chain sub-category and develops sourcing strategies.
• Performs data and industry analysis for strategic decisions.
• Collaborates with senior management to translate priorities into procurement plans.
• Oversees supplier selection, contract negotiation, and day-to-day supplier operations.
• Identifies contract risks and advises on mitigation and continuity.

Skills

Data analytics

Data storytelling

Executive communication

Communication

Results orientation

Learning agility

Digital fluency

Customer centricity

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Strategic Procurement Manager Description - Job Summary

This role is responsible for leading a complex supply chain sub-category, developing and executing sourcing strategies aligned with the organization's strategic goals, and conducting in-depth data and industry analysis. The role collaborates with senior managers to understand business priorities and influence the industry and marketplace within moderately complex categories. The role involves leading supplier selection activities, negotiating contracts, and managing day-to-day operations of large, moderately complex suppliers. The role identifies challenging contract risk areas and advises senior leaders on risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Leads a complex individual supply chain sub-category and assumes responsibility for the development and execution of sourcing strategies that contribute to the achievement of strategic vision and goals.
• Conducts complex data and industry analysis, including costs analysis, competitive analysis, etc., and reports results to senior management to aid in data-driven decision making.
• Liaises with senior stakeholder to understand business priorities and translate them into supply chain strategies, and influences the industry and marketplace within moderately complex marketplace categories.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to analyze existing business processes and develop and utilize supply chain, business, and financial modeling tools.
• Drives supply base optimization by leading complex supplier selection activities and negotiating acceptable contracting outcomes using known solutions.
• Holds responsibility for day-to-day operations of large, moderately-complex suppliers, and partners with them in minor strategic development.
• Collaborates with senior management to ensure that the company's procurement policies are followed and that compliance metrics are met or exceeded.
• Identifies challenging contract risk areas using cause and effect thinking, advises senior level business leaders on all contract risk areas, and provides inputs on risk mitigation, business continuity, cost management and operations strategies.
• Assesses current and evolving business models in the marketplace, and leverages the insights to engage with stakeholder managers and grasp business priorities and translate them into actionable procurement plans.
• Utilize packaging engineering expertise Interpret specifications, participate in design reviews Validate materials, coordinate testing, supporting FAIs, approving supplier samples, resolve issues Implementation of engineering changes Ensure manufacturing readiness Collaborate closely with manufacturing partner and resolve supplier or part issues Monitor business process flows between manufacturing partner and suppliers, ensure business requirements are met, protect HP expenditures Education & Experience

Education & Experience

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in procurement, supply chain, or a related field.

Preferred Certifications

• NA

Knowledge & Skills

• Data Analytics, Insights & Actionable Decision Support
• Analyze complex data, identify trends and business drivers, and translate insights into clear recommendations and action items. Demonstrate strong data visualization judgment to communicate key findings and business impact effectively to stakeholders and leadership.

Business Process & Program Management

• Own and improve end-to-end processes, identify gaps and root causes, establish actions, owners and timelines, and drive execution and follow-through.

Executive Communication & Data Storytelling

• Translate complex data and business issues into clear, executive-ready presentations highlighting key insights, business impact, risks, recommendations, and next steps.

Cross-Org Skills

• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

Impact & Scope

Impacts function and leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives.

Complexity

Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.

Disclaimer

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Job - Supply Chain & Operations

• Schedule - Full time
• Shift - No shift premium (Mexico)
• Travel - 25%
• Relocation - No

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