Sourcing Leader Benelux

The Sourcing Cluster Leader is leading the implementation of sourcing strategy in his/her cluster and will be overall responsible for the coordination of the local cluster sourcing activities and will be part of the Sourcing Leadership Team. He/she has to develop and manage an initiative plan in close cooperation with the (global) sourcing department and Category Management within his/her cluster.

He/she is responsible for setting up and leading sourcing projects within the cluster. He/she will analyze the spend to set up these (saving) projects, mainly initiating and leading sourcing related projects. He/she needs to actively contribute to further optimization of the cluster sourcing organization. Additionally, he/she will play an active role in sourcing related negotiations in the cluster.

He/she will establish, together with the VP sourcing and EVP cluster targets and objectives for its region and acts as a change leader. You will be leading the cluster sourcing team ensuring that they will contribute positively towards the company results.

Key Accountabilities:

Team Leadership

• Provide leadership to a team of high performing strategic sourcing managers
• Ensure flawless cooperation between cluster/country and the global function
• Inspire your team with great leadership, guidance and coaching
• Coordinate activities and drive effectiveness of the team resources
• Set targets, evaluate performance and build competence
• Attract and grow talent via training or coaching activities

Business Partner & Strategy Alignment

• Understand local commercial strategy and priorities.
• Be an integrated business partner towards the local management team.
• Co-develop global category sourcing strategy and secure local relevance for the cluster and/or countries.
• Define a locally relevant sourcing strategy for the cluster, based on global category strategies and drive implementation with stakeholders within the cluster

Performance & Financial Planning

• Drive local budgeting/forecasting process and align with global sourcing objectives
• Secure sourcing savings are linked to the EBITA bridge of the clusters
• Maintain dashboard for your cluster and ensure updated data is reported timely
• Track implementation, report results and secure benefits land in the P&L
• Prepare for cluster contribution in global/local review meetings

Execute Sourcing

• Plan and prepare strategic sourcing activities throughout the year
• Run tenders, analyse RFP/RFQ data, manage the decision-making process and award business based on objective, pre-aligned criteria and scoring matrix
• Be responsible for source to contract process within cluster
• Drive implementation of the supplier contract in Mediq
• Facilitate supplier rating, support local audits, drive tail management.
• Update and safeguard the local SOPS

• Support strategic/exclusive partnerships for joint business development activities and access to innovation
• Work closely together with category management, finance and sales on price updates to customers to secure internal profit margins
• Support cluster/local customer tenders with tender specific pricing and CBT opportunities

Functional skills & Expertise

• Knowledge of sourcing and procurement principles and state-of-the-art-best practices incl. their implementation
• Knowledge of relevant e-procurement tools, processes and systems
• Designing actionable procurement and sourcing strategy incl. governance
• Ability to drive and manage innovation and change processes
• Take a TCO view to margin improvement initiatives
• Analytical skills and derivation of actionable messages
• Project management and related governance skills
• Ability to be persuade, negotiate, collaborate, communicate with individuals/ stakeholders/ governing bodies etc. throughout the company at all levels
• Ability to communicate and negotiate with all external parties in a target-oriented, clear, precise and representative manner
• Skills in relevant MS Office tools

Personal Skills

• Conceptual/ strategic skills
• Communication and change skills
• Stakeholder management
• Structured, data driven approach
• Result orientation
• Hands-on and can-do mentality
• Teambuilder and team player

Education & Experience

• Master degree
• >8 years of functional and industry-relevant working experience
• Experience from a buy-for-resale industry is desired
• Experience in mid-size/large multinational companies with a matrix organization