Manager - Global Source to Contract

Role Title: Strategic Sourcing/ Source to Contract

Role Grade: Manager

Reports into: Director of Sourcing & Category Management

Role Summary and day to day responsibilities:

• Demonstrable experience of managing a team supporting a growing global business
• Tenacious highly organized results oriented and passionate about the value Procurement can drive for the business and delivering it.
• Experienced in global procurement across multiple categories like Technology Marketing HR and Professional Services and possess deep and broad market intelligence.
• Commercially astute and highly experienced in delivering value for money with excellent influencing skills.
• Persuasive charismatic and an eager negotiator with associated skills developed from prior experience working within a Procurement related role.
• Proven ability to initiate and lead on procurement projects that not only deliver value for money but also focus on areas such as demand management supplier aggregation and service improvements.
• Strong contracts review and drafting skills and an ability to interpret legal and commercial terms and conditions.
• Focused to getting things done today whilst also considering IFSs longer term objectives.
• Highly skilled at obtaining stakeholder buyin and ideally has prior experience driving ownership and direction of spend areas which have not previously been managed by Procurement.

Responsibilities

• Acting as a key Procurement point of contact for strategic sourcing you will be proactively supporting internal demand engaging managing and building relationships with key business stakeholders to understanding their service requirements in conjunction with regional and corporate goals.
• Navigating challenging situations settling internal and external differences with minimum conflict and gaining trust and respect from your business stakeholders.
• Highlighting thirdparty risk to establish a stable supply chain that allows IFS to offer uninterrupted services to its endusers in the business.
• Proactively sharing subject matter expertise and uptodate external supply market knowledge with your business stakeholders.
• Supporting efforts to drive performancebased supplier partnerships which enable optimal pricing quality and process improvements.
• Leveraging spend and supplier data to develop an activity pipeline that can drive greater value for IFS through Supply Demand Governance or Compliance.
• Leading and managing the endtoend sourcing process for both global and regional initiatives (including tenders supplier market and selection analysis RFPs and supplier presentations).
• Lead supplier negotiations on requirements commercial terms and technical matters ensuring the endresult maximizes value delivery minimizes risk and clearly aligns with the companys goals and objectives.
• Developing master Services Agreements and Frameworks in accordance with both regulatory and IFS policies.
• Working with legal finance and IT teams who may be leading or contributing to any of the above activities.
• Support and contribute to Procurement initiatives to support our ESG agenda which is a key priority for IFS.
• Sourcing demand maintenance such as the expiring contracts pipeline savings performance tracking PSL maintenance.
• Identifying opportunities to introduce innovation or improvements across the Procurement function.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends through webinars conferences and networking opportunities.
• Contribute to and provide updates to ensure Procurement Centre of Excellence (CoE) accurately reflects Sourcing contribution to Procurement reporting out including functional target(s)
• Coaching the Sri Lanka sourcing team in their professional development and pursuit of building category knowledge within your area of expertise.
• Advocate and champion for the global procurement transformation with a particular focus on embedding strategic sourcing across the businesses.
• Acting as an ambassador of the Procurement organization with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Supporting the development of material for category management to standardize processes document lessons learned and good practice and deliver improved operational efficiencies.

Recommended Skills:

Essential

Expert skillset in Microsoft Excel Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint

Expert level in third party contracting and commercial negotiation skills

Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills.

Excellent business and financial acumen

Familiarity with industry best practices and emerging trends in strategic sourcing and procurement.

Holds a strong track record of savings and value delivery.

Impeccable communication (both written and verbal) customer service and interpersonal skills necessary to influence a large and diverse group of stakeholders including senior management operations and finance business stakeholders.

Proven ability to maintain high quality service standards.

Selfdirected focused and flexible to changing requirements with an ability to easily prioritize and simplify matters.

Well organized and can follow process.

Strong leadership experience

Desirable

Experience working with ERP systems and other procurement software/tools.

Experience working with analytical tools like Microsoft Power BI

Understanding of global supply market and procurement law in multiple regions (Europe Asia US Middle East)

Experience in leading a team

Recommended Work Experience:

Essential

4 years of experience in Strategic Sourcing Procurement

Experienced in Strategic Sourcing including opportunities identification to deliver procurement led value for money outcomes.

Proven experience in independently developing and running competitive tenders and sourcing competitions

Desirable

Prior experience in global category management

Experience and knowledge in sustainable procurement.

Qualifications :

Recommended Qualifications:

Essential

Bachelors degree in Business Supply Chain or a related field

Desirable

CIPS qualified or currently pursuing CIPS qualification

Additional Information :

Application Requirement: 

Please include an introductory cover letter with your application copied and pasted into our platform rather than attached as a document. The cover letter should provide a brief overview of your professional background and how you envision contributing to the role. Why IFS 

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime