The Procurement Center of Excellence Manager is a Global role within the Procurement CoE at Altadia Group. The Procurement CoE is Altadia’s Excellence Organization specialized in fostering best practices, roll-out groupwide initiatives, drive continuous improvement, assume business process ownership to coordinate management of spend across the organization and develop functional knowledge with a clear business performance and value focus.

This role supports the CoE Procurement Manager in driving key initiatives –helping in bringing a future procurement vision to life.

This role is based in Altadia´s headquarters with 20-30% travel expected to international sites.

4 Key areas of support;

Procurement Excellence

• Definition, implementation and ownership of policies, processes and conventions across the group in close collaboration with Procurement Technology & Digital enablers and other stakehodlers
• Responsible for specific deep category knowledge (category playbooks, methodologies, templates) for Directs & Indirects
• Coordination of the procurement Strategy through a detailed Yearly Plan by Category
• Communication of the Procurement Strategy (Globally and by Category)
• Supporting with Change Management, Communication, Cultural Change and Organizational aspects
• Reinforcing compliance and transparency, working alongside Internal Audit to reinforce P2P processes (E.g. Contract Compliance, 2-3-way-match, No PO No Pay, P-Cards, buying channels adoption, etc. are being followed)
• Supporting on Contract Management (from a content and process perspective), leveraging the technology team for the technical aspects
• Support Heads of Directs & Indirects in any Operating Model related topics

Management of the Procurement Training Academy

• Define and Execute the Yearly Training Program for the procurement function
• Continuously identify new needs and methods and roll them out in the Procurement Organization

Lead and coordinate initiatives about Supplier Relationship (SRM), Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

• Define & develop SRM & Third-Party Risk Management frameworks and methodologies (incl. ESG)

Supporting in the execution of Special Procurement Projects, such as;

• Support in the Separation / Integration of newly acquired businesses (Procurement function)
• Conducting Synergy assessments (Procurement upsides from potential acquisitions)
• Driving Cost Optimization Assessments and executing focused optimization efforts
• Any other ad-hoc initiatives

TEAM MANAGEMENT

The CoE Procurement Analyst doesn´t have direct reports but will be required to effectively manage multiple stakeholders Globally.

GLOBAL REACH

The Global Indirect Spend and Center of Excellence unit is truly a function with global reach and positioning the capabilities and impact of this team across all sites at Altadia will be paramount. Maintaining a strong link between Regional (EMEA, Americas and Asia) teams will be critical to unlock Procurement value.

KEY JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Progressive career track within Procurement at an International Company (ideally with Worldwide operations) +5 years
• Experience in sourcing & Procurement transformation programs
• Knowledge / Experience of the Industrial Goods, Chemical, and/or Manufacturing Industries preferable
• Experience in a Procurement practice of top consulting firms highly desirable
• Exposure to managing multiple stakeholders
• Fluent in both Spanish and English