L&S Procurement Analyst needed at Maersk Line

Key Responsibilities:

• Day to Day Procurement Activities: Every dollar spent, is a dollar spent professionally – together with leadership, manage day to day procurement activities including, •Market engagement: Performing supplier market analysis and organizing market intelligence
• Go-to-market execution and analysis – RFI, RFQ & RFPs Evaluating supplier responses to sourcing events, including quantitative analysis of costs, and presenting comparative results to responses.Negotiate using market intelligence to guide the procurement management team on best base scenarios
• Procurement Category Strategy: provide analytical insights in the development of category strategies and executing sourcing events to reduce total costs, whilst ensuring value for money and high levels of service and compliance with Procurement Policies, Standards and ‘best practice’. Develop TCO and should be cost models to drive optimal commercial procurement decisions.
• Sourcing Strategy: Use the existing TMS dashboards to report on alignment and deviations to the sourcing strategy
• Customer Tenders: Enabling the procurement business partners in supporting Product and Sales with the required input to submit customer tenders timeously.
• Contract Management:  Being accountable for integrating Contract Management frameworks to help ensure cost leadership, compliance, and best-in-class supplier performance.
• Global Processes & Teams: Performing your responsibilities utilizing global procurement processes and tools, global category management teams.
• Implementation Partner: support the procurement management team to implement and drive continuous improvement activities through data intelligence and best practices. Accountability for problem-solving, analytical work, and driving insights from analytical work related to procurement function.
• TMS (Transport Management System) – Facilitate strong feedback loop in terms of what has been sourced vs what is being executed in the system – Track adherence to procurement endorsed rates in accordance to ranking. Balancing Capacity vs Rate. – Working together with Regional Rate Focal and Global TMS enablement teams, drive rate compliance and accurate in Maersk Rate Engine (MRE) and TMS. – Support Product, Delivery and Finance Ops in tracking to savings post contract commencement – Travel: Within the SAI area self-managed site(s) and supplier locations as per business requirements

Who We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor or post graduate degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Information Technology, or related areas
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in analytics and procurement
• In-depth understanding of best-in-class procurement practices
• Experience in First Mile Transportation is advantageous
• Outstanding professional performance
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Experience in team & project management to driving end-to-end sourcing projects and cost reduction initiatives.
• Strong communication, planning and prioritizing skills to manage work activities efficiently in order to meet deadlines and high-level goals in a complex, fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Solving problems in a structured and analytical manner.
• General understanding of finance and accounting principles, and the ability to interpret financial data and apply to decision making
• Resilient, results-oriented individual with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate complex internal and external environments.
• Ability to operate effectively in an environment of shifting priorities and ambitious goals.