Head of Procurement Electra Events & Exhibitions

Lead, manage, develop and coach, procurement team members to embed a culture of procurement excellence and best practice whilst maximizing individual strengths and talent.

Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors, business units and clients to sustain growth.

Engage with all stakeholders to encourage vendors to prevent, detect and eradicate breaches of ethical standards.

Identify internal staffing requirements and fulfillment of the same.

Allotted staff administration including objective setting, regular reviews, JD s and appraisals.

Increase Stakeholder satisfaction and reputation for procurement services.

Review/develop Policies, SOPs & PIMS, in line with best working practices, ensuring compliance for the department too, including but not limited to CIPS, EcoVadis, ICV, ISO, etc. standards.

Drive improvements in the procurement processes including escalations due to delivery/QHSE issues, invoicing/payables issues, and database management.

Drive the reduction of the supply base, where possible, and aggregate volume to gain leverage.

Define Procurement department objectives and oversee control throughout its life cycle.

Instill required SLA s/KPI s in line with best working practices ensuring optimal operational support.

Full accountability for buy and for delivery of annual Procurement targets (agreed with the COO), ensuring savings are realized, signed off and tracked in-line with the Benefits Methodology.

Plan, execute, and implement procurement projects according to deadlines and within budget, acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and internal departments to deliver according to plan.

Developing, implementing/execution of Procurement Strategies, to deliver a competitive advantage by driving vendor/partner initiatives. This includes vendor selection, vendor development and vendor consolidation to ensure procurement optimization and overall vendor performance management.

Solicit and evaluate proposals applying appropriate commercial review and negotiation, cost and price analysis techniques using available expertise from supporting organizations; draft and implement purchase contracts following applicable company and government regulations.

Perform regular market testing and benchmarking against contracts to ensure they maintain market competitiveness and deliver value for money.

Partner with key business stakeholders to ensure procured material and services meet the needs of customers and the business.

Provide budgetary information to all business units to ensure understanding in order that client quotations accurately reflect operational costs.

Co-ordinate with finance department and management to ensure synergies throughout the procure to pay process.

Drive the adoption and advancement of technology within the procurement department, leveraging innovative solutions to optimize operations.

Lead initiatives to scale AI capabilities, ensuring integration into core processes to enhance efficiency, decision-making, and overall performance.

Manage an equivalent aggregate level of EUR Xm p.a.

Any other task, as reasonably requested, by Electra.

Negotiation - Actively help stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes in commercial dealings with third parties through practicing effective negotiation.

Curiosity and Innovation - Demonstrate a proactive approach to exploring new ideas, methods, and technologies that enhance organizational effectiveness. Seeking opportunities to challenge existing practices, encourage creative thinking within the team, and contribute to the development of innovative solutions that drive continuous improvement and competitive advantage.

Problem solving - Assess situations and identify the causes of problems by proposing appropriate solutions.

Coping with change - Recognize the need for change and promote change in a positive manner to the team, encouraging their comments and contribution to the process.

Dealing with conflict - Identify and minimize areas of potential conflict between colleagues and team members whilst recognizing the positive contribution that managed conflict that make to reaching shared solutions.

Self awareness - Learning from mistakes, seeking and accepting feedback from the others in the organization and providing constructive comments to other to improve own performance and the performance of the team.

Equality and diversity - Maintain and promote best practice in valuing and respecting diversity recognizing the positive contributions that such differences can bring to effective work practices.

Honesty and integrity - Maintain, promote, and monitor personal and professional honesty and integrity.