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As Purchasing Business Partner you will be the purchasing representant for those divisions. You will be the strategic link between Business division stakeholders and Purchasing department. This role will ensure the development, management, and prioritization of Purchasing activities into the divisions. You will be the business key partner (ambassador) to ensure a maximum purchase value, implement and influence purchasing strategies and understand/collect stakeholders’ needs to propose purchasing business solutions. 

You will also be the responsible to provide cost optimization on tenders/negotiations for division brands, align and review spend, performance and financial trends with DAFs, influence the division to participate on Inclusive sourcing program, propose initiatives to address L4TF targets, educate the divisions’ teams on the purchasing process to guarantee divisions’ compliance regarding suppliers management and spend control. 

Your Responsibilities:

Provide day-to-day purchasing support to business stakeholders and prioritize the team activities including:

• Understanding of Business expectations, demands and priorities. 
• Identification and analysis of Business requirements/specifications of the projects.
• Demand management and challenge of the requirements.
• Understand demand and align with sourcing team to recommend the best suppliers to match the Business needs.
• Understand and share domain strategies done by sourcing teams into the divisions. 
• Management of short-term or recurrent/non-recurrent RFQs tenders. Improve the cost model through a good knowledge of supplier process, TCO concept. 
• Management of small/mid-size Divisional projects and support sourcing team on the big ones.
• Influence and propose Inclusive sourcing initiatives and sustainable sourcing solutions to contribute to LOI targets. 
• Proactively propose improvements to increase efficiency and content (Catalogs, PSL, Rate Cards)
• Negotiation and drafting of contracts with suppliers, starting from standards shared with the legal department. 
• Conduct risk analysis with vendors and apply internal controls guidelines.
• Generate feedback to sourcing team (domains) to enrich or refresh strategies.
• Guidance on the best buying approach in R2P tool MARKET (Ariba based).
• Review trends, spend management control, compliance, and division performance (savings) P&L impact and avoidance with DAFs and division committees.
• Provide purchasing process training to guarantee division´s compliance. 
• Manages stakeholders’ relationships: Feed network with internal/external news, share best practices, Communicate / manage projects /share suppliers’ information with his stakeholders. 

Your Skills:

• Excellent communication skills (oral and written and presentation skills)
• Pro-active/relational profile to engage with business stakeholders.
• Ability to influence decision-making. 
• Strong project management, negotiation, and analytical skills
• Attention to details, multi-task based on needs to manage deadlines.
• Entrepreneur/innovative approach.
• Problem solving person customer oriented, “make it happen”. 
• Fluency in MS Office (word/Excel, outlook, PPT) 
• English language to participate into zone and global division meetings.
• Financial Background as nice to have.