Procurement Manager

Job description / Role

Job Overview:
- Support and implement in MEA the strategy of Ecolab EMEA Procurement for all Ecolab companies, This cover Indirect non-COGS purchases and Equipment COGS goods. Estimated spend 50 MUSD.
- Position is based on delivery of business results, ensuring locally consistency with the Company's requirements, including compliance, supply assurance, cost, quality service and innovation which are required to meet the business need.

Main Responsibilities:

Spend Management
- In coordination with the Regional Indirect Procurement team and Equipment team, Implementing of Procurement Global/Regional strategy locally.
- Delivering the budget saving 4% by effectively supporting on negotiations for the local spends Indirect & Equiment. Driving cost saving project and initiative.
- Responsible of identification of alternate suppliers and/or alternate materials/processes and drives proposal for approval process and implementation.
- Recommending new products, initiating proposal of cost saving measures and suggesting alternative products and/or vendors when price or quality improvements can be achieved.
- Preparing negotiation contracts establishing and execute pertinent written contract, and increase contract coverage to reach 80%.
- Developing and maintaining appropriate and productive supplier relationships.
- Monitoring and evaluating vendor performance to ensure the items' quality and delivery fulfill the negotiated terms.
- Keeping abreast of local industry trends for relevant goods and services to ensure that the Company's procurement function uses and recommends for use, vendors and products that meet the Company's standards of quality at prices that are competitive in the outside marketplace.
- Representing Procurement on cross functional teams.
- Ensures that all purchases are properly approved and are consistent with Company policies and procedures.

Business Process Management
- Manages people or processes critical to the efficient functioning of the procure-to-pay process
- Responsible for efficient coordination operation within area of accountability, internal client/external supplier.
- Identifies, propose for approval and implements business process improvements
- OTIF process to be implemented to help monitoring and find corrective action preventing reoccurrence.
- Supports data and process requirements of department
- Report forecasted projects/price on the pipeline doc, and completed savings on the TDC-Saving Doc.
- Assists in integration of acquired companies.

Requirements

- A minimum of two years direct procurement experience, or at least three years of combined procurement and business or related experience.
- Experience in SAP, Oracle, or any other ERP/MRP system is desired, SAP preferred
- A minimum of a Bachelors Degree in a technical or business field. An Advanced degree is preferred.

About the Company

Every day, we make the world cleaner, safer and healthier – protecting people and vital resources. Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services. Around the world businesses in foodservice, food processing, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets choose Ecolab products and services to keep their environment clean and safe, operate efficiently and achieve sustainability goals. Our global workforce of over 44,000 employees is consistently delivering comprehensive solutions that meet the unique needs of our customers.