What are the responsibilities and job description for the Procurement Manager position at Applus+?
Applus is a leading global provider of testing, inspection, and certification services. We work across a wide range of industries to ensure the safety, quality, and performance of our clients' products and operations.
- MISSION:
- To improve the Procurement costs of a region by defining strategies and administering the local Procurement area.
- To assure main systemic supplier performance in Key APPLUS projects, he/she assure APPLUS standard rules followed by our suppliers, assure the right communication between teams, assure supplier engagements and denounces whenever it is not respected.
- Bring visibility over tier 1 suppliers and help project and buyers searching and developing local suppliers.
- To manage relationships with various stakeholders across divisions while integrating business needs and proposing competitive value-added solutions for the businesses.
2. GENERAL FUNCTIONS*:
- To ensure the fulfilment of the Procurement strategy in the local responsibility area, and to obtain the quality, costs, terms, service and technical support objectives fixed in the business plans.
- To ensure the fulfilment of the Procurement budget in the responsibility area in question.
- To monitoring the local Procurement objectives, as well as its business reporting and the corporate Procurement function.
- To assure supplier apply the right standard control plan over its production and sub-suppliers quality.
- To assure right instructions and requirements interpretation between APPLUS and suppliers.
- To search for new suppliers as per APPLUS requirements and quality standards and needs.
- To keep full confidentiality over all internal communications, strategies initiatives defined in APPLUS.
- To give support to the business in the assignment process and the monitoring forward sourcing until the entrance of the delivery.
- To develop the necessary information related to the suppliers involved in APPLUS projects (contact details, drawings, costs, specs, capacity, management, quality and logistics capacity, human rights respects, environmental rules respects….
- To develop a Procurement reporting process for his/her responsibility field.
- To manage the assigned suppliers through the suppliers, reporting, performance tracking, master data...
- To represent the Procurement function in the business projects linked to improvement teams (ex. Payables improvement, suppliers’ panel reduction, charges administration, cost improvement, improve the suppliers quality, etc.).
- To lead in the Savings Opportunity List and ensure the fulfilment of its region actions.
- To develop and administer the team, guaranteeing efficiency, development and motivation.
- To help the buyers in goods and services sourcing development for the new offers to clients.
(*) The described functions are only the most representative for this position; therefore they should not be understood as being the only inherent functions related to this job position.
3. MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED OR LEVEL OF EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE:
Academic background:
University degree in Engineering or Business Administration.
Additional training:
Specialized in Procurement in Services, engineering international environment, facility management experience, SAP ARIBA experience
Languages:
English
