Regional Procurement Category Manager

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The position is responsible for developing and managing the procurement category strategy for the Region, ensuring effective sourcing, supplier management, and contract optimization. The role will drive value creation through cost efficiency, quality improvement, and risk mitigation while ensuring compliance with procurement standards and supporting operational needs across multiple countries.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the business has timely supply of goods and materials it requires
• Demonstrate value for money for the company in the cluster when money is being spent with suppliers
• Apply Puma Energy’s Procurement processes ensuring all necessary controls, approvals and reporting is carried out in the cluster
• Functional leadership of the procurement coordinators in the cluster, focusing on procurement operations
• Planning, Operations and Monitoring
• Initiate, lead and coordinate all procurement activities (engaging with stakeholders, gathering business requirements, tenders, negotiation, creating purchase orders, supply market intelligence, benchmarking, driving suppliers to perform) related to his/her cluster
• Monitor, consolidate and report Procurement KPIs for his / her cluster (e.g. savings, number of purchase orders, after the fact orders)
• Responsible for monitoring suppliers delivery and payment terms, including follow up manufacturing process
• Support initiatives pursuing optimization of the Total Cost of Ownership
• Perform market benchmark to ensure that Puma Energy costs are consistent within the market
• Sourcing and Negotiation
• Consolidates cluster expenditure to aggregate and maximise buyer power to ensure the best costs/benefits for the company for his/her cluster
• Lead multi discipline teams in charge of negotiations and implementation in his / her cluster
• Creatively explore different alternative approaches in negotiation to achieve greatest cost reduction for Puma Energy
• Identify, propose and lead savings initiatives related to:
  •  Technical requirement (e.g. standardization, value engineering)
  • Volumes / demand management (e.g. consolidation / rationalization)
  • Vendors market (e.g. new vendors sourcing)
  • Commercial terms (e.g. payment terms, warranty, lump-sum, life cycle)
• Co-responsible with Regional Procurement implementing and assuring the use of regional and global agreements in the cluster, and evaluate the impact of company’s procurement policies
• Build / maintain a network of contacts and develop strong Procurement relationship with suppliers
• Represents Puma Energy to suppliers, ensuring suppliers know what is expected of them and markets the opportunity for suppliers to supply Puma Energy
• Selecting suppliers and contracting
• Pilot and organize sourcing events (RFI, RFP, RFQ)
• Negotiate commercial terms of contracts
• Ensures that the outcomes of negotiation are translated into contracts (Frame Agreements)
• Cooperation with the Legal department for all contracts
• Manage contracts / issues (e.g. vendors dispute, invoices, warranty) in close cooperation with stakeholders
• Organize contract reviews during execution of contract / return on experience at the end of contract
• General Management
• Be the primary point of contact to all non-oil procurement activities in the cluster, a support the local management and operational teams
• Assure implementation of Procurement policies, programs and procedures, and provide guide and advice to the business and country management in his/her cluster
• Follow-up, evaluate and provide procurement functional support to his/her cluster (e.g. improve of KPIs and performance, system and processes)
• Have clear understanding of functional areas challenges and opportunities regarding Procurement matters to provide guide and advice in decision making processes
• Manage and continues asses the skill levels of functional reports, and provides growth and development opportunities
• Understanding the main difference business activities and processes at Puma Energy (e.g. Retail, Maintenance, Operations, Aviation, etc.

Requirements

• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Champions HSE as a personal value
• Quality management – ability to set standards, processes, services and systems.
• Relationship building skills.
• The ability to act autonomously and deliver in different circumstances, clients, industries is critical.
• Propensity to learn new commodities and industries is critical.
• Attention to detail and analytical ability is required.
• Sound commercial knowledge.
• Business acumen.
• Good communication and negotiation skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel.
• Confident and proactive self-starter – go getter!
• Customer-focused and service-oriented.

Experience

• Degree in supply or procurement with a further qualification programmes with CIPS.
• Extensive procurement experience.