Associate Director-regional Category Manager, Fleet

The **Associate Direcor-Regional Category Manager, Fleet** is responsible for Sourcing & Procurement, Policy and Program Design for the JCAP region. Delivery of high-quality procurement performance and capabilities is expected as part of MSD’s global procurement strategy. This role embodies a “one team” way of working within the new Global Supplier Management Group (GSMG) organization.

With the implementation of a Global Supplier Management Group (GSMG) Centralized Function, the Global Procurement Professional will partner closely with this new organization to deliver upon the end-to-end Sourcing Excellence Process. The Centralized Function will enable efficiencies and will specifically provide services related to the following:

- Sourcing and Contracting: Leverage Ariba expertise to execute all Ariba sourcing activities including Contracts, RFXs, Reverse Auctions and Bid Analysis
- Data & Analytics: Perform data analysis; Develop and maintain modeling tools, operational reporting and other pre-defined analytics guides
- Risk & Compliance: Use Centralized third party risk systems to execute governance and operations; Track supplier due diligence metrics; Execute third party risk assessments; Create & execute mitigation plans

**Primary Activities**

**_ Primary activities include, but are not limited to:_**
- Sourcing Management - Leads the Sourcing Management Process with high component on regulatory compliance.
- Implementation: Responsible for execution of source plan, Inclusive of Region and Global initiatives.
- Proactive Cost Management: Achieves cost control, cost reduction, and cost containment targets, and adds value to area of expenditure through a strong total cost orientation.
- Market Knowledge and Insight: Uses thorough market knowledge and data analysis to gain critical insights that drive the selection of Sourcing Strategies and continuous improvement activities.
- Supplier Management and Conditioning: Responsible for building relationships with Regional and Local suppliers and managing supplier performance against business requirements using proven processes
- Stakeholder Management and Business Sponsorship: Ensures appropriate stakeholders are identified and managed through stakeholder matrix.
- Contract Negotiation and Management: Leads and/or collaborates with the Central Functions team, sourcing activity including RFX, RFP, negotiations and contracting for Regional categories to put in place the right suppliers. Negotiates at tactical and strategic levels to develop local, regional, global company contracts.

**Skills & Competencies**:

- Service Mindset
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Compliance Excellence
- Operational Excellence
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Business and Financial Acumen
- Enterprise Approach
- Change Execution Management

**Qualifications and Experiences**:
EDUCATION:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineer (or Statiscal, Mathematics) or Finance (Economics or Business Administration)

EXPERIENCE:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Indirect Procurement process, Business Cases analysis, Risk Assessments, Data analytics & Planning or related experience is required
- Fleet Category Management or Fleet Leasing experience
- English, both verbal and written and Japanese
- Digital and Innovation proven experiences will be a plus
- Understand the basic financials and market intelligence from the key categories of spend, in order to self support strategic projects, and to support the Market sourcing team appropiatelly
- Understand the Regional, Local and Global guidelines, in order to effectivelly negotiate, so that the Contracts with our Suppliers can be aligned with our corporate standards and the stakeholder requirements.
- Related experience in a global matrix organization environment

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:
No

**Travel Requirements**:
10%

**Flexible Work Arrangements**:
Hybrid

**Shift**:
Not Indicated

**Valid Driving License**:
Yes

**Hazardous Material(s)**:
**Requisition ID**:R228510