Kalmar · 1 week ago
Market Area Procurement Lead
Ottawa, KS
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expKalmar is a global leader in sustainable material handling equipment and services, dedicated to moving goods in critical supply chains. The Market Area Procurement Lead for North America will oversee sourcing activities, drive cost-saving initiatives, and foster collaboration across departments to enhance procurement processes.
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Responsibilities
Lead cost-saving initiatives by identifying opportunities for RFQs, process optimization, supplier renegotiation, TCO initiatives, and agreeing implementation within the country
Lead contract negotiations for procurement projects and contracts, ensuring compliance with legal and commercial terms
Facilitate communication between business functions and central category management teams to ensure alignment and implementation of global procurement strategies
Structured insourcing vs outsourcing analysis and dialogue on core capabilities and in/outsourcing activities together with negotiation and implementation of those with functional partners
Build and maintain strong local relationships with preferred suppliers, ensuring high levels of collaboration and mutual benefit along with supplier consolidation and tail spend reduction
Lead key supplier development initiatives, including risk mitigation strategies (together with TPRM) and continuous improvement efforts
Ensure that all procurement activities adhere to both Kalmar internal policies and local legal requirements
Work closely with finance, operations, and other relevant departments to align procurement activities with business needs. Promote and increase procurement process awareness across functions
Identify inefficiencies in local procurement processes and work with the country procurement teams to implement improvements that enhance operational efficiency
Support front-line units in implementing procurement best practices, including process standardization and tool utilization
Provide regular reporting to country directors and controllers on procurement performance, highlighting key achievements, risks, and areas for improvement against targets for cost, quality, and delivery
Ensure transparency in procurement activities by using Kalmar digital procurement systems and tools to streamline procurement workflows and increase transparency in procurement activities
Closely collaborate with business stakeholders at all levels ensuring impactful category strategy and savings action implementation
Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization, including Finance, Legal, Sales & Service, and other relevant departments
Effectively communicate sourcing strategies, plans and results to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and buy-in
Proactively identify and address stakeholder needs and concerns ensuring compliance whilst supporting business growth and flexibility
Ensure best practice sharing across counties and across regions
Develop and manage procurement metrics and KPIs, developing dashboards to track sourcing performance on a country, regional and global level
Drive improvements in the source-to-pay process, including requisitioning, purchasing, invoicing, and payment to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and PO compliance
Together with sourcing digitalization and IM drive the development, implementation and utilization of both new and existing sourcing tools and technologies to simplify processes and enable efficiency improvements
Qualification
Required
Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, or Engineering
At least 5 years of experience in Procurement and Strategic Sourcing
Proven track records in managing complex sourcing projects and process improvement activities
Sourcing experience within an international supply base and cross-functional environment
Understanding TCO with practical deployment in procurement area
Basic financial and acumen required to take optimum commercial judgments and decision
Legal awareness and contract negotiations experience would be an advantage
Experience gained in a large multinational company with a matrix organizational structure essential
Budget and business plan development and implementation
Experience in working with global teams and executing transformational change projects is necessary
Strong Negotiation, influencing and relationship building skills
Successful collaboration with key stakeholders and ability to maintain relationships at the executive level
Strong oral, written and presentation skills
Ability to gather relevant information systematically; consider a broad range of issues or factors; grasp complexities and ensure the relationship among problems or issues; seek input from others
Demonstrate resourcefulness to effectively leverage and focus resources across organisational/ geographic boundaries
Exceptional integrity; operating at the highest level of ethical standard, is required
Ability to cope with ambiguity and complexity is necessary
Continuous improvement, change leadership and management with process focus and benefit realisation mindset
Ability to balance strategic and hands-on needs to manage multiple projects and relationships while remaining focused on the key deliverables is key
Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare options
Matching 401K
Performance based annual bonus system
3 weeks paid time off
11 holidays
Company
Kalmar
Kalmar provides cargo handling solutions and services to ports, terminals, distribution centres and heavy industry.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$210.11M2024-12-13Post Ipo Debt· $210.11M
2024-07-05IPO
Leadership Team
Karri Keskinen
Head of Global Sales, Horizontal Transportation
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