Strategic Purchasing Manager
CurrentLead cross-functional sourcing teams by coordinating all business activities needed to make purchasing decisions, which generate the highest quality, reliability and value through the development of strong business relationships and strong strategic alliances.• Analyze business processes and determine savings opportunities by influencing supply and demand.• Lead initiatives for process improvements• Maintain metrics for process improvements, supplier control and reporting to management, and apply benchmarking to achieve the best possible processes.• Perform portfolio analyses, supplier market analyses, risk analyses etc with the aim of suggesting management the best possible purchasing strategies that harmonize with the company's business strategies.• Develop, anchor and implement purchasing strategies for assigned purchasing categories with the aim of achieve short- and long-term savings goals.• Introduce appropriate benchmarks on competitiveness, processes and risk management with a view to solve complex issues.• Work with framework agreements and project purchases according to decisions by management.• Negotiate and conclude written framework agreements• Measure and track performance within assigned purchasing categories.• Lead the data collection process to continuously update and identify user requirements as well as internal spend characteristics.• Define, measure and maintain project progress metrics.• Prioritize tasks so that they meet overall goals.