Global Procurement Manager, Network Services

**Company**:
At Vodafone Group, we build connections to all our Global operations, acting as an advisory board to drive consistency and customer excellence across 30 countries and for over 420 million customers. We constantly uncover tactics to innovate how we operate, set our global standards, or manage our strategic performance. By joining Vodafone Group, you will be part of evolving our digital world of total communications. Now is the time to get on board.
In joining the Supply Chain Management (SCM) at Vodafone Group here in Luxembourg, you will support our people in strengthening our position as an admired company in the eyes of our customers, shareholders, and employees. The team is broad; you could work within SCM Commercial Services, SCM Enterprise, SCM Networks, SCM Software & Core, SCM Sales, Development & Operations, or Cognitive & Digital Sourcing. What links us all together is that we are all customer-obsessed, innovation-hungry, and motivated Are you?
The Global Supply Chain team in Luxembourg has been on a journey to become recognized as a global expert in everything we do. We’ve set up a landscape of advanced tools and robust processes to maintain this world-class function to facilitate smooth interaction with our suppliers. These electronic solutions make working with us faster, more secure, and simpler than ever.

**What you’ll do**:
As part of the Network Operations and Support team, your first responsibility will:
**Impact on the Business**
- Manage the delivery of global category strategy, order Intake, and saving targets and manage global relationships with key category suppliers.
- Input to reporting against targets as defined by overall SCM goals and objectives. Manage cost modeling of various scenarios and aggregation of demand to leverage Vodafone’s global scale and scope.
- Responsible for ensuring the budget holder's requirements are defined and reflected in the Category Strategy.

**Support Budget holders, Suppliers, and Third Parties**
- Manage RFQ, Negotiation, and conclusion of contracts with suppliers over major deals working with Legal and internal stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met.
- Be accountable for managing relationships with and monitoring the performance of key suppliers and identify and evaluate potential future global suppliers. Create and maintain a supplier database for the category.

**Provide Leadership and Teamwork**
- Cooperate with the local market function and Shared Service Centres.
- Develop a strong customer-focus approach extending it to the whole team.

**Lead Innovation and Change**
- Responsible for developing and delivering the evolution of innovative commercial models.
- Able to work & produce innovative solutions for third-party customers.
- Contributes to best practice and provides input into SCM best practice forum.
- Investigate and drive performance improvements on specific opportunities identified within the category with the support of senior team members.
- Work with suppliers to identify innovation opportunities for the benefit of the category and Vodafone.

**Communication**
- Has a clear stakeholder engagement approach supported when necessary, with a clear communication plan.
- Ensure project team(s) are provided with a clear definition of roles and responsibilities.
- Effective influencing of internal stakeholders and external suppliers.

**Who you are**:

- ** Procurement Experience**:Solid procurement experience. Experience working within procurement either at the global or local level, technical knowledge of networks and services, and the ability to recommend/drive category transformation. Knowledge of Logistics would be an asset.
- ** Negotiation Skills**:Strong commercial and negotiation skills concerning multi-year agreements.
- ** Results-oriented**:Track record of delivering against challenging targets.
- ** Virtual Environment**: Track record of successful teamwork with virtual teams in cross-cultural environments. Management and teamwork, key focus on the collaboration of virtual teams
- ** Communication Skills**:Well-developed written and verbal communication and executive presentation skills. Effective engagement with key stakeholders and ability to communicate and present at the senior management level
- ** Reasoning Skills**:Proven data analysis capabilities
- ** Customer-focused**: Customer obsessed, innovative, and embody behaviors of Speed, Simplicity, and Trust.
- ** Education & Experience**:A higher degree (technical background would be valuable) or proven experience in the field.

**Not a perfect fit?**:
**What's in it for you**:
We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including:

- Discretionary Yearly Bonus
- 28 Days of Annual Leave (with the option to buy 5 days and the opportunity to carry over 5 days per year)
- 1 Additional Day
- 11 Public Holidays
- 5 Charity Days per Y