B2B & Customer Solutions Manager
Job Req ID: 16486
Posting Date: 18-May-2023
Function: Business Enablement
Location:
Building 31, Budapest, Hungary
Salary: Competitive
Key responsibilities
- Accountable for driving and delivering the optimal commercial and supply solutions for supplier contracts, while maintaining customer lifecycle and procurement expertise of category strategy, supplier knowledge and product life cycles
- Deliver sourcing plan, supplier contracts, procurement approach and plans, collaborating with global / regional category teams, stakeholder community and suppliers, leveraging best practice procurement approaches and commercial levers
- Apply best practices around customer lifecycle procurement, including bid support, sourcing approach, commercial models and Total Cost of Ownership, project delivery and transitions
- Provide input and support delivery of global / regional category strategy, policy and framework - Maintain partnership with internal and external stakeholders, deliver supplier contracts in a quality, cost and time effective way
- Execute sourcing plans in a quality, cost effective and timely manner, maximizing commercial advantage
- Maintain category / industry vertical expertise around new technology, market dynamics, supplier strategies, commercial models, product life cycles and partner programmes; and support the implementation of category strategy
Qualifications
Soft skills
- Ability to meet the customers’ needs in line with the business requirements
- Communicating effectively and efficiently while adapting to your audience and getting the message through as intended
- Taking the responsibility and taking care of the consequences of making a decision
- Focusing on all aspects and details of a task and delivering your output with a high level of accuracy
- Effective relationship management skills & ability with stakeholders within a matrixed environment
- Demonstrates a track record of decision making capability and deliver against key metrics
- Demonstrates strong continuous improvement skills that exceeds customer expectations
Professional skills
- 5-7 years experience as a leader within the Procurement function, with strong leadership skills and the ability to lead, and deliver value
- Strong experiences in Source to Contract process, able to understand complex customer requirements, and manage bids and contracts from requirement design to contract execution
- Strong business expertise in customer solutions, portfolio purchasing and relevant categories, particularly around customer requirements, supplier capabilities, commercial models, product lifecycles and partner programmes required to deliver portfolio and customer requirements
- Ability to manage complex, strategic and commercial requirements between Employer and Suppliers, deliver projects and results on time and in full
- Strong relationship management skills & ability with stakeholders within a matrixed environment
Language skills
- English AND Italian on a fluent level
Additional allowances and benefits
- Bonus
- Company car or car allowance
- Health Insurance
- Cafeteria
- Smart working allowance
