Responsibilities:
The Procurement Cluster Director ensures management of the relation between the purchasing organization and the plant/s in order to reach the plant and overall organization’s purchasing objectives.
What will you do?
Productivity
· Ensures team remains trusted and accountable, with the Procurement Sourcing Leads (PSL), for the material productivity of the plant.
· Ensures effective monitoring of the negotiation actions and their results.
· Supports the PPMs and PSLs for the management of technical and supplier change actions (identification and progress) with escalation process within the purchasing function and/or the plant.
· Ensures identification, with the PPMs and PSLs, of new actions to reach the targets in term of productivity by lever
· Ensures right level of support to have accuracy of forecasted savings by challenging PPMs and PSLs – ensuring always that maintenance is being performed and to make it match the P&L reality.
· Provide leadership and ensuring accountable, with the monthly reconciliation committee (PPM, financial controller and PSL, for consistency of productivity in forecast and in actuals.
Supplier Management
· Enables support for Plant Quality & Managers on supplier performance for critical cases, in internal escalation process after SQME & SSCME’s implications
· Provides leadership to the PPM and PSL teams to have them actively participates in the monthly Supplier Performance Meeting with the Plant.
· Provides leadership support with escalations related to short and middle term Quality & Logistic risks coming from supplier market.
Supplier Market
· Makes sure that the Supplier Orientation Charts exist and are shared with the Plant.
· Supports the PPM and PSL teams to informs the Plant about supplier market significant changes and warns the Plant if risks are identified.