L&S Procurement Manager İş İlanı

QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB DESCRIPTION

Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Manager to work on strategic procurement projects in East Mediterranean Area, delivering tangible and significant value to the business.
You would be sitting in Istanbul and be responsible for Logistics and Services Procurement.

We offer

• A unique opportunity for personal and professional development
• A procurement career while building a strong platform for future leadership roles within Maersk
• Accountability and opportunity to deliver impact regardless of tenure
• Senior management exposure from day one
• Ability to get familiarized working in and with EMED area, while being exposed to global operations and creating global impact
• A fast-paced and dynamic environment with a distinct respect for the individual
• An international team with likeminded young top performers
• Diverse project portfolio and ability to see end-to-end procurement cycle

Key responsibilities

Managing procurement projects within inland transportation
• According to authority level, management and participation in negotiations for the L&S category and assisting in the implementation of Service Level Agreements between Maersk’s operation and its suppliers.
• Cooperating closely with colleagues and stakeholders in Maersk’s operation, working very closely with the country organization to ensure alignment between costs, commercial needs and operational execution.
• Engaging with local organization, counterparts in the other Areas and procurement stakeholders in SEU LOC . Due to the lack of proximity to all stakeholders, a strong application of written communication and presentation material is required.
• Being accountable for integrating Contract Management frameworks to help ensure cost leadership, compliance and best in class supplier performance.
• Be assistant projects on terminal related when needed, and take responsibility for sub-work streams in Marine procurement projects that have a co-dependency on inland spend.
• Performing supplier market analysis and organizing market intelligence for inland spend within Maersk’s operation, and benchmarking Maersk cost competition and ensuring cost leadership.
• An ability to solve complex challenges through analysis and based on accurate identification of underlying factors/causes and are aware of the impact of proposed solutions outside their own immediate area.
• Involvement in process improvement initiatives that reduce the inland total cost of ownership through non-negotiated approaches, such as re-distribution of volumes between suppliers.

We are looking for

• The candidate has a good understanding of the business drivers of Maersk business on the L&S operations and is able to build a strategy within L&S spend categories to drive down cost and improve efficiencies in collaboration with our inland suppliers.
• The candidate should have experience with inland container transportation/operations – L&S and procurement, and should be able to apply procurement tools to drive cost initiatives but also with focus on fulfilling business requirements and vendor performance.
• The individual we are looking for must have strong communication, networking and interpersonal skills through which he or she can use to engage with a broad range of stakeholders both internally and externally.
• The candidate should have experience on Warehousing and / or CFS operations sourcing process
• Strong market knowledge specifically for Warehousing, Intermodal and Supply chain management categories
• Strong industry network
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Good interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Contract Logistics and Capex Sourcing knowledge is a big plus
• Fluency in English and Turkish required.