Director, Procurement (India)
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
About The Job
India Procurement Director
Begaluru or other location in India
Full Time
About JLL To be added.
What This Job Involves - Responsible for local sourcing/category strategy development & execution and supplier performance across relevant indirect categories as well as other JLL entities if required.
- Engaged proactively and collaboratively with India decision makers and stakeholders. Building relationships to ensure India business sourcing needs are met and relevant JLL policies are applied.
- Scope of the role included the JLL business, JLL Technologies (JLLT) and JLL Business Services (JBS).
- Delivery of financial targets in line with business expectations.
- Continuously drive the local/regional project opportunity agenda and ensure identification, agreement and execution of these projects.
- Accountable for local/regional stakeholder sourcing solutions for specific commodity/service requirements, RFP/quotation management, bid analysis and recommendations, liaison with internal/external stakeholders for contract approvals, savings reporting, documentation and compliance.
- Rationalises supply base and develops local/client supply partner framework and maintains this framework at operational supplier level.
- Supplier Relationship Management tools applied to manage relationship with JLL's preferred supply base where applicable.
- Working with procurement technology (Jaggaer, Risk Methods, D&B etc.) – ensures team infrastructure is in place, to document sourcing projects and maintain contracts database across country/region.
- Ensure sourcing processes are in place, documented, adhered to and communicated to align with any audit requirements (e.g., internal audit).
- Applies ethical company standards and ensures required policies are applied at all times.
- Due diligence to identify regional spend, suppliers, contract status and stakeholders to continue rolling out formalised indirect procurement organization.
- Creating appropriate organizational model to deliver indirect savings via internal or outsourcing support model.
- Integrating ESG requirements into all sourcing activity.
Additional Duties And Responsibilities - Leading and managing RFPs /quotations as required for relevant client and JLL entities.
- Guides the Sourcing Manager(s) and other relevant stakeholders on transition and mobilisation projects.
- Savings - working with Category Managers, Sourcing Managers and key suppliers to ensure that savings initiatives pipeline is being driven regionally to maximize savings impacts.
- Ensure that the savings tracker is kept up to date for the country/cluster so that we can demonstrate value add to our internal/external stakeholders.
- Quality check data and make recommendations on improvements to data quality/format.
- Briefing the India businesses on Procurement activity and attending regular UK Finance and COO meetings.
- Representing Procurement in key country/regional ESG forums.
- Other duties and projects (local as well as regional) as assigned.
Key Performance Measures - Execution of category strategies through sourcing and implementation projects
- Business saving targets – individual as well as team targets
- Projects completed
- Supplier management and development where applicable – SLA, KPIs and action plans
- Compliance to internal & external audit bodies
- Client satisfaction (internal stakeholders/360 evaluation)
- Supplier reduction targets
Sound like you To apply you need to be / have- - Highly developed proficiency in sourcing and category implementation processes
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills- C-level
- Strong leadership skills
- Proactive approach to solutioning
- People development
- Ability to analyse financial information, understand the business context and extract key facts to deliver improvement and opportunities
- Problem solver – ability to identify and resolve issues with speed
- High efficiency - organizational skills
- Advanced negotiation skills
- Advanced presentational skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent PC skills, proficient in Office tools
Competencies - Demonstrated capability to manage and lead a spend portfolio of up to $50m
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a local/regional context with consideration of local requirements and required leadership that comes with this function.
- Competency in financial modelling, feasibility studies and total cost of ownership analysis.
- Ability to analyse complex problems and generate solutions.
- Exhibit advanced relationship and conflict management capabilities in order to guide the company/supply partner relationships as well as within the team – ability to build trusting relationships.
- Advanced knowledge of procurement legislation, tendering process, contract management and supplier relationship management.
- Previous experience of conducting advanced business process re-engineering exercises.
- Proven track record of working in an environment where customer needs are variable, at short notice & the ability to assess opportunities at speed.
- Customer driven - understands the customer needs that will support delivery of the business strategy and implements these where appropriate.
- Teamwork – demonstrates commitment to teamwork and creates value not only for themselves but also for others – focuses on the overall objectives of the team to continuously improve.
- 'Hands on' approach – leads and executes complex and high priority projects.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to work in a matrix organisation environment.
Experience - A proven track record of relevant cross-category procurement experience
- Deep understanding of sourcing process and commercial supplier environment
- Sourcing procedures and protocols – particularly for services contracts
- Experience working with suppliers and team regionally and/or globally if required
- Development of mutually beneficial supplier relationships
- Experience in a matrix organisation
- MCIPS or equivalent preferred
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