Head of Procurement - Nigel at Alstom

PURPOSE AND MISSION OF THE JOB:

Procurement representative of Alstom Ubunye as member of the Site Executive Committee: relays to Procurement/Site any information or decision that could impact respective activities such as organizational changes, supplier difficulties, local/central instructions, make or buy decisions. Acts as a facilitator between the Procurement Function and Site operational members

TEAM:

• 10 to 15 direct reports (Procurement Manager, Lead Buyers, Buyers, Project Procurement Manager, Economic Development Manager

KEY NETWORK & LINKS:

• Procurement local and central teams, Site/JV executive committee members, Suppliers, Projects team, Supplier Quality, Supplier Development, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Economic Development, Legal, Finance, etc.

MEASUREMENT (KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS)

• Business Award (supplier selection) and Purchase Order placement on Time
• First Article Inspection on Time
• Cost reduction vs. Budget (savings)
• Local Content and Preferential Procurement performances
• Internal customer satisfaction
• Supplier OTIF (On Time Delivery)
• Supplier NCR (Non-Conformity)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Team Management and development:
• Manage headcount and staffing
• Manage local procurement team in close link with the global procurement team (Domain Directors, Commodity Directors/Managers, Sourcing Efficiency, etc.)
• Monitor local procurement team workload and process to arbitration
• Develop team competencies
• Secure compliance of his/her team to the Alstom Code of Ethics

PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE:

• Manage suppliers’ Quality, Costs, Delivery & Economic Development performances
• Perform regular supplier QCD performance, solves major issues and secure objectives achievement
• Apply & support Alstom procurement rules, process & tools
• Bring procurement expertise to support local procurement team
• Challenge global procurement to secure project execution and profitability in escalation phase
• Provide to global procurement input to impact commodity strategies
• Share with central procurement, Project Manager and Site/JV MD the risk analysis on commodities strategies.
• Share and follow common mitigation plan to secure future business award is in line with commodity strategies.
• Secure continuous improvement within whole local procurement team

PROJECT EXECUTION AND PROFITABILITY :

• Support local procurement team to face commercial and contractual negotiation during project execution phase
• Challenge site/JV executive committee members to secure project execution and profitability
• Track procurement performance in projects and issue action plan in case of deviation
• Analyse risks and sets appropriate mitigation plan
• Formalize and share return of experience on main issues
• Support the team, especially the Procurement Project Manager, on project gate review completion
• Secure Procurement gate reviews (GO Order, GO BA, GO PO) are done on time in line with retro planning as per project needs
• Secure PO placed on time

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE & CASH FOCUS :

• Support supply chain to monitor and secure raw material inventory and On Time in Full objectives
• Support quality on Non-Conformity Report treatment and improvement, Costs of Non-Quality management
• Support accounting department to aligned on invoice accounting and payable days
• Actively participate on industrial continuous improvement
• Manage Supplier specific and systematic claims to recover project cost
• Achieve Saving targets and bring new ideas to improve Profitability

BUSINESS UNDERSTANDING AND DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE

MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED

• Degree in Purchasing or related qualification

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 10 to 15 years of experience in procurement/sourcing, project and operations
• Procurement/Sourcing professional background
• Strong management experience of large multicultural team

PROFILE:

• Fluent English and an international mindset
• Leadership, communication, internal and external influencing skills, team management, negotiation, strategic vision, Project management, industrial background, quality, and supply chain background
• Live Alstom values