Head of Direct Procurement Asia

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Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of a major part of the organization's procurement strategy. Take personal responsibility for a limited number of mission-critical procurement programs.
• Develop and gain agreement to annual business plans for a function or substantial business area, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes (i.e. revenues or other key performance indicators); detail expense and headcount budgets; and develop business cases for key projects, ensuring cross-functional integration.
• Take responsibility for setting and managing area budgets so they align with organizational strategy.
• Communicate the function's strategy and its relationship to the organization's mission, vision and values; clarify the actions needed to implement it within the area of responsibility; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals.
• Identify and manage stakeholders up to top management level, finding out their needs/issues/concerns and reacting to these by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Support the overall organizational strategy by developing and delivering operational plans and outcomes for a large portion of the business.
• Manage the delivery of a major part of the organization's supplier management program. Take personal responsibility for a small number of mission-critical supplier relationships.
  
  

Requirements

• University / Post Graduate (Masters Degree)
• Experience level enables job holder to provide leadership to others regarding work related systems, processes and challenges.
• Experience of interpreting strategy and policy in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames.
• Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
• Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Uses expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.
• Acts with expertise as the organization's authority on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.
• Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on costing, budgeting and finance tasks.
• Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
• Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on making sure the organization develops and maintains the culture, values and design it needs to reach its objectives while managing structural change.
• Acts as the organization's authority and established expert to develop solutions based on an understanding of the business environment and objectives.
• Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on acquiring, organizing, protecting and processing data to fulfill business objectives.
• Negotiates as the organizational authority and established expert to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.
  
  

Your Application

To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at https://careers.evonik.com.

Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager:

Chloe Feng （冯潇锐）

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