Buyer Global Air, Ocean, Customs Brokerage and 4PL

at  Johnson Johnson

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The Buyer Global Air, Ocean, Customs Brokerage and 4PL is responsible for:

• supporting the development and execution of category practices for international transportation freight (Air, Ocean, Customs, Parcel, Dray, 4PL), including support of sourcing strategy definition, sourcing project execution and stakeholder alignment.
• driving and supporting the execution of the sourcing projects (RFQ’s) and being the point of interaction between the Global Category Manager and the EMEA Deliver Operations and Supply Chain teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Aligns with stakeholders.

o Supports the Global Category Manager with the identification of suppliers, the initiation of the strategy development as well as execution of sourcing projects in EMEA.
o Actively engages with stakeholders as defined in alignment throughout the strategy development and sourcing execution process.
o Ensures that the input from the stakeholders is considered in the process.

o Prepares the stage gate documentation.

• Leads key sourcing projects.

o Supports the Global Category Manager in the analysis and definition of the category spend baseline and category profile, incl. risk assessment and SRM strategy.
o Supports development of Go-To-Market and negotiation strategies in EMEA in alignment with the Global Category Manager and ensures proper documentation.
o Provides support during the supplier screening and supplier selection process.
§ Leads and assists in the development of RFx.
§ Supports preparation of supplier communication packages.
§ Prepares fact-based negotiation packages.

§ Supports preparation of implementation plan.

• Performs sourcing management.

o Performs Category Manager activities for global projects with a regional lens.
§ Manages the procurement strategy implementation / sourcing execution for a global category with collaboration with other regions.
§ Drives supplier performance by, for example, discussing lessons learned from one region and making sure that the supplier builds on those lessons learned to improve service levels in another region.
o Executes end-to-end sourcing projects for less complex categories.
§ Participates in internal and external analysis (industry & supplier) in collaboration with Category Managers
§ Performs supplier selection and fact-based negotiations, validated by the Category Manager
§ Involves the business for actions related to supplier base optimization, KPI implementation and follow up, etc.
§ Conducts spend map analysis to monitor spend and ensure that all purchases follow the purchasing process.
§ Continuously tracks forecasted vs. actual savings according to the Value Tracking Process for category in scope - defines corrective/optimization actions if needed and follows up on them (escalate to Category Manager, if needed).
Qualifications