Global Procurement Manager, Fintech

**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**:
The Category Manager manages procurement activities across the category. Ensuring that cost savings are delivered and cost management structures are leveraged. The Category Manager focuses on the management of a team that carries out activities that deliver cost savings through effective negotiations and securing favorable terms and volume discounts, achieving measurable value for Vodafone. You will:
**Impact on the Business**
- Manage the delivery of global category strategy, Order Intake, and saving targets.
- Question current business thinking of requirements and how those requirements can be presented to Suppliers to Vodafone’s advantage.
- Input into reporting against targets as defined by overall SCM goals and objectives, manage and ensure the usage of Supply Chain tools, processes, policies, and standards.
- Manage cost modeling of various scenarios and manage aggregation of demand to leverage Vodafone’s global scale and scope.
- Be accountable for supporting the wider Core, Transmission & Software Team.
- Ensure the global category strategy is managed in terms of best practice operation and development.
- Responsible for ensuring budget holder's requirements are defined and reflected in the Category Strategy.
- Manage global relationships with key category suppliers.

**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.
- Accountable for managing relationships with and monitoring the performance of key suppliers.
- Identify & evaluate potential future global suppliers.
- Create and maintain a supplier database for her/his/their category.
- Joint working with Operations and Enablement teams across the SCM (Supply Chain Management) Community.

**Guidance and Teamwork**
- Cooperate with the local market function and Shared Service Centres.
- Support the wider Core, Transmission & Software team to ensure success is recognized, and take appropriate measures to ensure improvement of day-to-day operations.
- Develop a strong customer-focus approach extending it to the whole team.

**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 (finance 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. Here are some of the ways we support this:
**Annual Discretionary Bonus**
- Reward