Global Indirect Procurement Manager

Description

• To provide strategic direction and tactical delivery of procurement activities and projects across several Corporate facing category areas, namely Corporate and professional services, IT and Supply Chain.
• Utilizing previous experience, identify and deliver positively disruptive, agile procurement solutions, resulting in auditable incremental value creation which you will report to the business, through a highly collaborative approach with both local and global stakeholders.
• To be identified/seen as, the regional procurement specialist across the business, ensuring that credible relationships evolve and develop to roadmap and deliver continuous improvement, innovation and value creation.
• Define and implement regional sourcing action plans in line with global/regional strategies, through sharing, co⁃creation and continuous improvement to maximize all opportunities for increased value creation in your segment and across the team.
• Negotiating commercials, and contract terms together with legal affairs, with important vendors, whilst protecting brand reputation and mitigating risk.
• Proactively managing spend data, PO Compliance, Payment term adoption, and escalating operational issues across the business where identified or optimization opportunities exist.
• Supporting the regional IP leadership team in ongoing Procurement transformation projects.
• Representing the Procurement function as an ambassador through best practice.
• Lead and collaborate from your seat to ensure that the key Procurement and regional business objectives are aligned and deliver according to the pre⁃set goals and live sourcing strategies.
• Independently develop the procurement business agenda across corporate facing spend activities, in line with the department and regions goals, to ensure that a proactive, collaborative stakeholder buy⁃in develops, and that your personal relationship/credibilityis utilized to enable procurement to lead a positively disruptive, agile and effective business projects.
• Lead cross Brand/Function Supplier negotiations to ensure best overall cost position for the Organization for assigned commodities. Negotiate, develop and approve contracts, agreements, supplier direction and business awards.
• Maintain and provide a current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends to team members and business partners.
• Develop and lead the strategy evolution to mitigate Supplier risks within the assigned area of responsibility.
• Utilize the tools, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities, and efficiencies. Work collaboratively with team members to prioritize and drive implementation.
• Support sustainability efforts within assigned commodities.
  
  

Estée Lauder Companies at a glance

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. Our products are sold in over 150 countries and territories under brand names such as: Estée Lauder, Clinique, Origins, Tommy Hilfiger, MAC, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Donna Karan New York, DKNY, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Michael Kors, Tom Ford, Smashbox, AERIN, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, By Kilian, BECCA, and Too Faced.

About The Role

As Indirect Procurement Manager, you will cover all Indirect Procurement aspects such as vendor identification & evaluation, RFP process, contract negotiations, contract and vendor management including but not limited to active follow up on timely and high-quality deliveries and maintain specifications of product purchase.

You will be the link between EMEA Indirect Procurement and the brands within the Nordic affiliate, making sure that we follow the Procurement Policy, meeting the KPI’s set from the business and deliver savings and value to the organization.

Your Key Responsibilities

More Specifically, You Will

• Analyze spend and assess opportunity for additional savings/added value to the business
• Spend Management through a mix of OPEX and CAPEX
• Contract Management and Supplier Relationship Management on behalf our stakeholders, placed in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland
• Manage RFx processes (RFI, RFQ, RFP), supplier negotiations, contract drafting, and execution in collaboration with legal and business stakeholders.
• Maintain and secure Procurement Policy and policy adherence
• Close collaboration with stakeholders, both in Brands, Finance and IP Colleagues in EMEA
• Secure Saving targets and other Procurement KPIs are met
  
  

Your Qualifications

Experience in procuring Indirect goods and services categories such as Marketing procurement, Professional services and Facility Management - industry experience is a plus and you are / have:

• A strong negotiator
• Proven track record (> 5 years in a similar function)
• Analytical and process-oriented thinking
• Good communication skills across functions and countries
• Good expertise in MS Office Tools (especially Excel, Word, Power Point, and Outlook)
• Familiar with best practice approaches in the area of responsibility
• Experience with/and usage of SAP Ariba is a plus
  
  

Long Description

You are strong team player and able to build sustainable relationships, across functions and countries (local organization and external partners in EMEA), based on trust, respect and a supportive behavior. Furthermore, you are analytical and structured. You proactively seek ways to improve organizational effectiveness to meet current and future business needs and finally, you have a positive can-do attitude with focus on finding solutions to problems and challenges you and the business might face. You are self-driven and comfortable in situations where multi-tasking is essential.

What we offer

This role is part of an EMEA Indirect Procurement team headquartered in Paris and reporting to Western Hub lead based in Paris.

We Offer An Exciting Opportunity To Join a Global Company With a Strong Heritage Within An Innovative And Growing Industry, Including

• Attractive & competitive compensation package including attractive health insurance benefits
• A hybrid working model with the opportunity to work from home up to 2 days per week
• Market competitive pension package
• 30 days of vacation
• Wide variety of social office events
• Social networks and Global ERGs (Employee Resource Groups)
• Generous staff discounts on products
  
  

Who we are

We are the global leader in prestige beauty — delighting consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. In fact, we are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout our organization is a passion for creativity and innovation — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of our founder Estée Lauder.

Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in the core of what we do

Estée Lauder Companies is an equal opportunities employer. As part of our Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, we provide local development training such as identifying unconscious bias in workplace settings and how to counteract them through annual sessions in the Nordics.

We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Next Step

We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis. Preferred start date is as soon as possible.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.