Governance & Planning Lead, APAC

Job Responsibilities

Procurement Governance

1- Procurement Policy and processes (Global procurement policy & governance)

• Work closely with the HPN community to update and adjust to procurement policy and processes whenever it is needed to

improve compliance and spend coverage

• Cascade all procurement policy and processes changes to the markets,
• Ensure all employee trainings (new hired as part of their induction plan & existing staff whenever refresher is needed and/or

changes occurred)

• Track non-compliance working closely with internal audit team & address it,
• Ensure all compliance checkpoints are properly recorded by team members,
• Streamlines processes
• Foster policies and processes harmonization across regions to avoid complexity and ease digitalization.

2- KPIs development, tracking and monitoring

• Define a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) essential for a comprehensive procurement performance management

system (savings, spend coverage, compliance to policy, PSL usage, vendor base rationalization, stakeholders’ satisfaction…),

• Track, monitor and report those KPIs with adequate frequence to ensure timely action in case of deviation,
• Provide the team with all required insights (with the support of the analytic team) for them to achieve their objectives / targets.

3- Procurement maturity

• Conduct an extensive procurement capability assessment vs business objective, to identify the procurement function's

scalability needs and desired responsiveness,

• Develop a training plan covering procurement expertise, category knowledge, business acumen and soft skills in order to build

the team capability.

4- Technology roadmap

• Use the performance dashboards and a technology-driven approach to accelerate our compliance efforts and improve

visibility and decision-making process by enabling fluid information and workflow,

Procurement Planning

1- Spend visibility | Projects pipeline

• Coordinate the overall sourcing Plan exercise,
• Define the spend baseline by market / category and the related spend coverage objective (SLA),
• Support Category leads and Sourcing Leads in developing sourcing strategies to increase “spend coverage” and deliver

further efficiencies,

2- Project | Cost tracker

• Ensure proper and timely completion of the project tracker,
• Review and check the information captured by the Sourcing and Category Leads,
• Provide spend management oversight, keeping budget goals under control.

3- Supplier lifecycle management

• Define and implement the holistic process of managing supplier interactions and relationships from onboarding to

collaboration as detailed below:

o Vendor Onboarding: Strengthen the supplier qualification processes to improve service level and control supplier

base expansion,

o Supplier segmentation: Improve supplier development for high-value relationships, build a strong SRM strategy,

identify and manage tail spend,

o Performance Monitoring: Track and evaluate the supplier performance against predefined KPIs and SLAs as part of

the SRM process,

o Risk Management: Features for assessing supplier risk profiles, conducting due diligence, and monitoring

compliance,

o Vendor Offboarding: Terminate contracts, transition to alternative suppliers, or conduct exit interviews to gather

feedback and identify areas for improvement.

4- Procurement community build-up

• Procurement website management
• Townhalls
• Team building

5- Procure to Pay

• Act as an escalation point of contact in case of GBS counter-performance for local team.

Job Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, or any related

Related experience of 10 years is preferred

Certification / License CPIS or equivalents preferred

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and/or Related Experience:

• Sourcing Strategy: Sourcing Strategy delivers required business results by appropriately applying the concepts needed to

determine/develop sourcing strategies and to modify those existing strategies as required by changing business and market

conditions.

• Supplier Analysis: Supplier Analysis develops a superior understanding of supplier capability, and uses that understanding to

deliver that supplier’s goods, services, technologies, etc., to provide optimum total value results to the business.

• Business Partner Relationship Management: Procurement manages relationships with our key internal Business Partners to

know and understand their business needs. Procurement can build relationships by utilizing tools such as the Joint Business

Plan process, initiative list management and effective persuasive selling skills.

• Sourcing Mastery (Sourcing Strategy, Industry Analysis, Supplier Relationship Management, Commercial Contracting,

Negotiation, Competitive Bidding, Economic Analysis, Linking, Leveraging, Competitive Analysis, and knowledge of P2P

systems/work processes).

• Communicate Business Information: Effectively communicating and presenting complex data (both verbally and written) to

influence all levels and global audiences; helps others understand data and translate it into actionable business insights.

• Leadership Skills (Communication, Strategy, Drive the global / regional team to deliver targets).
• Articulates Vision and Strategies to Win: Aligns group/department strategy with multiyear corporate strategy and creates

clear links throughout group/department; articulates the vision in an energizing and inspiring manner; explains line-of-sight to

business imperatives.

• Critical Thinking: Ability to formulate conclusions and recommendations using facts and data, business analysis, deductive

reasoning, and sound judgment.

• Develops, Coaches and Mentors Others: Actively works with team members to create opportunities within and outside of

own area; provides highly insightful feedback and guidance; seen as a valuable mentor.

• Project Management: Establishing courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently and on

time.

• Takes Ownership of Results: Takes personal responsibility with clear link to overall performance/goals; monitors, documents

with solid evidence and evaluates performance via appropriate system.

• Global Cultural Awareness: Culturally aware of the impact of their actions and seeks to work collaboratively with personnel of

all regions of the globe.

• Motivates Others: Able to identify what motivates others and leverage that knowledge for optimal performance; provides

frequent and appropriate recognition.

• Engage with all key stakeholders to meet their individual country requirements.
• Commercial Agreements: Procurement drafts and executes (in partnership with Legal) pertinent written agreements for

ongoing requirements (purchase orders, leases, Contracts, etc.); and Procurement collaborates on establishment of

pertinent agreements for development requirements (CDAs, JDAs, Letters of Intent, etc.)

• Policy & Stewardship: Understanding and appropriate application of principles and policies in key areas that influence our

practices and behaviors in sourcing activities.

• Confers with suppliers and analyzes suppliers' operations to determine factors that affect prices and determines lowest cost

consistent with quality, reliability, and ability to meet required schedules.

• Reviews proposals, negotiates prices, selects, or recommends suppliers, analyzes trends.
• Strong analytical skills.