Senior Procurement Manager with Experience in Recruiting

Beschreibung

Project environment

The open position is at a Global Swiss Bank in the Supply & Demand Management organization (SDM), which directs and controls all supply management activities (covering all third party external spend categories) as a shared service function and global competence centre for the entire bank. Within SDM, a global team addresses all professional services third party spend. Currently the bank is looking to recruit a versatile professional to complement the global team Professional Services Sourcing.

Tasks

• Independently negotiate framework agreements with recruitment services and training suppliers.
• Plan and execute professional services initiatives to generate benefit of cost reduction as well as risk mitigation and compliance adherence, but will also drive efficiency and process enhancements.
• Be responsible to support the development of a sourcing strategy for professional services, in particular recruiting and training.

Requirements

• Professional buyer, who has experience in the strategic and tactical procuring of professional services.
• Project management experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills capable of diplomatic interface and teamwork within organization and outside vendor community.
• Sourcing experience preferably in the recruiting and training or services space.
• Strong and proven negotiation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and German are prerequisite.
• Experience in preparing top management presentations
• Fosters innovation and creativity within the department - ability to think "outside the box".
• Cost focused, with emphasis on quality, value and efficiency.
• Having worked in the recruiting or training industry.
• Higher education (i.e. University BA and/or MA) is a plus.

Workload: 100%
Start Date: 01.01.2014
End Date: 01.06.2014
Workplace: Zurich

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