About the role:
As the Manager of Procurement for Catering and F&B Category, your role is to manage and drive all procurement requirements in this category. You will analyze and develop strong category strategies, agreeing cost savings targets while interfacing with senior management and stakeholders. Your responsibility includes managing supply to ensure best value for the company in line with its strategic, financial, and operational requirements. You will drive and motivate the team to achieve set goals and perform continuous monitoring and analysis to ensure further improvement in the category and department, while ensuring compliance and maintaining high professional standards.
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Key Responsibilities
Strategic
- Provision of strategic analysis to clearly define comprehensive Catering and F&B Category planning
- Develop cost saving plans for the company from budgeted amounts to reduce overall expenditure.
- Responsible for the definition of supply strategy for relevant product categories
- Develop cross-functional strategic planning with colleagues to leverage all benefits possible.
- Review and input to department policies and processes to achieve best practice and continuous improvement.
Operational
- Ensure high service levels from Procurement team for the company including timelines, professionalism, communications, and expectations.
- Setting and achieving Catering and F&B Category KPIs, regularly assessing progress to keep delivery on track.
- Review and endorse all documents submitted by staff for compliance and best practice, complying with the company strategy.
- Responsible for high-level negotiation with key suppliers on costs, commercial and contractual terms, assisting reports as required, particularly for high value/risk tenders to achieve increased value at reduced costs.
- Assist in developing the departmental budget. Manage quality control throughout the project life cycle by maintaining delivery timelines, mitigating project risks, and acting as a liaison with all project stakeholders to ensure effective change management.
- Provide comprehensive summaries and data for reporting activities on spend, timelines, and current operational state.
- Run, review, and action performance reports on assigned Categories to improve workflows and deliverables.
- Challenge user timelines, specifications, sourcing methods, and supplier lists where appropriate to achieve the optimal outcome for the company, supporting Procurement Specialist in this also.
- Prioritize and assign workload and tenders to the whole Category Team. Provide support to other Procurement Managers as necessary.
- Forward planning for procurement activities, with full accountability for category planning in conjunction with stakeholder senior management.
- Perform other departmental duties related to your position as directed by the Head of the Department.
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About you:
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with a minimum of 8 years of job-related experience.
- Strong Catering and F&B category specific experience - minimum 5 years.
- Fluent command of the English language.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to work in a very dynamic environment, under pressure, with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to influence, convince, and build effective business relationships across diverse groups of people.
- Service-oriented mindset, with a desire to ensure stakeholder satisfaction.
- Excellent negotiation planning, management, and execution skills.
- Strong contractual and financial acumen.
- Planning, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Managerial skills - Ability to delegate work, set clear direction, and manage workflow. Strong mentoring and coaching skills, with the ability to train and develop subordinates' skills. Ability to foster teamwork among team members.
