Procurement Specialist, 24 months

Job Purpose
What you'll be doing

• To build, conduct and implement sourcing strategy and activities as per Group and company standards and procedures, within the budgeted costs (the assignment is done based on the sourcing category as mentioned bellow or per project)
• Operations domains: Outsourced services, Real Estate (Facilities and Car fleet management), Managed Services, Consulting and Professional Services, HR services, Marketing & Communication, Sales.

Main Responsibilities

• Budget.
• Contribute to budget optimization through sourcing actions aggregation and contractual terms (payment terms, reverse factoring).
• Challenges budget need compared with suppliers' quotations and checks budget availability
• Reports and follow-up any budget modification in terms of projects in the sourcing roadmap
• Early budget creation contributor, assuming potential savings are embarked.
• Sourcing process.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, and communicate with internal and external parties, while meeting tight deadlines. Proposes commercial solutions in order to optimize costs, participating in defining and implementing Company's Program (e.g Transformation)
• Defines yearly/quarterly Sourcing Action Plan per domain.
• Translate budgeted figures into sourcing actions - define sourcing plan
• Identifies at group level/ Affiliates level all potential suppliers and existing feedback on eventual similar project deliveries
• Leads sourcing process and proposes commercial solutions in order to optimize costs, participating in defining and implementing Company's Program (e.g Transformation)
• Leads contract negotiation with Suppliers and edits contracts by incorporating all stakeholders' comments and proposals
• Evaluates sourcing projects/commercial offers, proposes a shortlist and makes final recommendations.
• Negotiates commercial terms of the contracts: local or implementation of corporate sourcing contracts.
• Participates in Orange Group acquisition activities (as RFP and frame contract concluding) related to the respective domain.
• Prepares, centralizes and sends the needed information for Purchase Order issued in Oracle by Purchasing administrator.
• Selects local suppliers when corporate contracts are not sufficient, using the local sourcing process.
• Have recurrent business reviews with the supplier based on several parameters and regularly measure performance (QREDIC). Ensure compliance with deadlines and monitor contractual terms.
• Group and Buyin cooperation
• Issues Demand Plan report by aligning sourcing actions with budget plan.
• Provides required data collection in terms of contractual clauses, volumes, pricing and project planning need to Group/Buyin for the build of the project sourcing strategy
• Checks the consistency of the Suppliers offers in terms of the negotiated corporate agreements
• Prepares the targets for Group/ Buyin in terms of budget and needed commercial articles for Group/ Buyin lead projects
• Analyze corporate offers related to company project and provides Group/ Buyin the preferred ranking from technical and commercial point of view responsible for commercial articles.
• Issues together with Group/ Buyin the Demand Committee presentations sustaining the local recommendation
• Checks the Corporate sourcing contracts validity and demands prolongation conditions to Group/ Buyin
• Performs market investigation per domain to be aligned with market trends and Supplier status.
• Reporting
• Prepares and fills in Demand Plan yearly and update it quarterly.
• Issues presentations with RFI/RFQ results to be validated at Top management level
• Prepares monthly reports regarding the savings, as per requested template being responsible to archive the savings calculation methodology and related documents for audit purpose

What You Need To Know/have
Professional background & qualifications:

• University graduate
• fluency in English
• MS Office
• minimum 2 years' experience in sourcing, purchasing
• proven record in transversal projects
• Knowledge of sourcing processes
• financial knowledge
• basic legal knowledge
• knowledge of budgeting process (how to manage a budget, draw up forecast)
• Sourcing Project Management
• Sourcing techniques
• Commodity expertise

Behavioral Competencies
What we're looking for

• Ability to Deliver Results
• Autonomy & proactivity
• Customer focus
• Teamwork
• Analytical thinking
• Communication skills

We encourage all candidate profiles, regardless of gender, age, race, citizenship, ethnicity, color, language, religion, social origin, genetic traits, sexual orientation, permanent or temporary disability, nationality, political choice, social category or social origins, situation or family responsibility, belonging to a disadvantaged category, membership or trade union activity.