Regional Sourcing Manager

Overview

Purpose: Optimise sourcing performance, empowering teams to be at their best and to deliver changes which delight our customers.

What's the job?

Team Development

• Live our core values, embed a positive team experience in all that we do, recognizing contributions and creating a sustainable environment, fit for high performers.
• Develop sourcing competencies across the team and drive engagement, retention and succession plans.
• Set clear team objectives with structured performance reviews, feedback and management.

New Business Development

• Collaborate with the Leadership team in defining and communicating the vision and priorities for the buying office.
• Deal with multiple functions and developing strong and lasting relationships with key stakeholders across the organization while animating, organizing and structuring the upstream conversation.
• Provide vendor mapping within your footprint, activate new supplier discovery activities benchmark and develop bears (alternative suppliers).

Contracting and Operational Delivery

• Ensure project milestones are delivered on time, promoting cross functional collaboration between all functions.
• Guarantee minimum standards and Kingfisher sustainability policy compliance.
• Assure the management of the KIPL contracts is correctly managed by the team.
• Play an assurance role across your direct team around the collection, completeness and quality of the data to support article and vendor set up and maintenance in the company systems.
• Assure team and vendor adherence to sourcing processes using the relevant systems and tracking tools such as CPC, Project Management, Contract Management, Audits and Brand and Packaging Processes.

Product and Supplier Development

• Provide the vendor plan, focus and direction that’s essential to deliver cross functional unique range and product development programmes.
• Create a category level OEB vendor strategy to ensure the buying office has the best possible chance of gaining group volume through competitive tenders.
• Pro-actively (organise) contribute to the SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) programme for Key Strategic vendors, understanding capabilities, risks and opportunities in your supply base.
• Define and implement sourcing 2.0 approach for your regional footprint, across sourcing team and engage category sourcing team & centres of expertise.
• Lead sourcing team activities in order to fulfil ranging demands at optimal price and volume whilst ensuring that the agreement is sustainable for all parties.

Ongoing business activity

• Manage forecasting & delivery of KPIs through structured monitoring, reporting, direction, challenge and support.
• Build the framework and the strategy of the negotiation through setting the target, objectives and the team direction to deliver the required margin from annual contract negotiations and cost price reduction/increase mitigation activities with the team.
• Set priorities and ensure fact based negotiations through “should cost”, cost breakdown, LPP analysis, production cost and processes and developing common platforms (components, 2nd/3rd tier suppliers).
• Be the point of escalation and issue resolution within the team as required.

What you'll bring

Required Skills & Experience

• Technical skills : ideally to have proven experience across technical categories
• Strong presentation skills: clear and impactful messaging, using storytelling. Ability to translate strategy into action.
• Negotiation skills: proven experience and success across complex negotiation.
• Strategy and sourcing design; experienced leader able to format a category and sourcing strategy and implement it.
• Proven leadership of teams across multiple countries.

Business Travel required.