Title:  North Latam Corporate Services Category Lead - Procurement

Job Purpose and Impact

The North Latam Corporate Services Category Lead - Procurement will handle the development and implementation of a regional and bussines sourcing strategy for a category and will identify, create and capture value from competitive advantages emerging from the company's regional scale and market insights. In this role, you will achieve established targets for the category, provide direction to guide and lead global and regional suppliers contact for strategic negotiations. You will be an essential partner in the development of insights that link together value creation and deploy and assess local commercial viability.

Sub categories from scoope: HR services, professional services, contigent labor, marketing and comunications, office services, custom brookers amoung others.

Key Accountabilities

• Synthesize all technical and economic drivers of services in all global and regional markets, build relationships with key business partners and understand global competitive dynamics of categories to develop global expertise for categories around responsibility area.
• Create regional sourcing strategies that leverage business leading market positions to establish a competitive advantage in the marketplace and lead category contract negotiations with regional suppliers.
• Align with regional risk, management and sourcing directors and leads to develop a multifaceted global sourcing strategy that optimizes value creation for the company.
• Communicate global market drivers and local feedback and incorporate it into regional businesses to ensure long term local competitiveness of regional businesses.
• Communicate detailed market intelligence with appropriate audiences to support our commercial approach in accordance with the customer segment, competitive positioning and market trends.
• Accountable for regional sourcing initiatives, including the appropriate value capture mechanism. Implement, measure and report category value creation.
• Evaluate and deploy services improvement actions and lead the transition of  technology and sourcing strategy with local scoope of work in manufacturing and supply chain teams.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Advanced english level
• Experience managing services negociation in a multi country enviroment.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in purchasing and supply chain.
• Experience with customer segmentation and pricing strategy.
• Experience working with regional teams and leading by influence.
• Managing executive communication and solid relationships with senior stakeholders.