Logistics Category Manager

Purpose Of The Job

This role is responsible for Co-creating and implementing Procurement Strategies for Transportation portfolio in 12 Key markets across Asia. You will be responsible for ensuring the Transportation portfolio sourcing strategies make sure competitive, delivering world class service levels, improving on safety & sustainability of operations, and building purpose-led partnerships for warehousing services across the markets.

Key Accountabilities

You are expected to lead the strategy creation and execution with Country leads to Deliver on the key matrices of World class service, Competitive Cost, Safety and Sustainability by:

• Working with markets leads to understanding business requirements across countries for Cost, Quality, Safety, Service and sustainability and how it translates to sourcing specifications.
• Working with markets leads to understand spend as well as the total cost of ownership for the company in the market.
• Finding the right sources for generating new / leveraging existing competitive insights for benchmarking of current cost, sourcing specifications & partner base vs market to identify areas of opportunities and risks
• Co-creating the sourcing strategy to optimally meet the sourcing specifications, who to buy from, how to buy, when to buy
• Identifying and implementing next generation tools and process to optimize sourcing practices
• Building team capability by driving key learning and development programmes.
• Working closely with Internal Procurement teams and Operations Excellence teams monitor performance and drive key initiatives.
• Creating an inclusive team environment

Key Contacts: You will work along with multiple Internal and External Stakeholders, key being: Internal Logistics Procurement and Excellence Teams, Finance Teams, IT Teams and Suppliers

Travel: The role will involve regional travel for 20% of the year

Skills:

An ideal candidate is expected to have:

• Strong analytical skills
• Financial analysis and reporting
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Word and Power Point
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluency in spoken and written English and any Indian language preferable

The below Procurement skills will be an added advantage:

• Portfolio Strategy Development
• Negotiation
• Strategic Supplier Partnerships
• Digital sourcing Platforms knowledge

Education And Experiences

The Candidate should have

• Either a bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years experience in Procurement / Supply Chain Management
• Or a master’s degree with specialization in Procurement / Supply Chain with at least 8 years experience in Procurement / Supply Chain Management
• Relevant Experience in Procurement/operations of Transportation Services.