Procurement Officer, Intermodal

at  CMACGM

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.
Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.
Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.
Summary
This position supports the Asia Regional Procurement (ARP) managers in formulating and implementing procurement strategies by providing analytic and tools support (i.e. supply, demand, cost analysis, vendor review, etc) for intermodal and land spending.

Main Responsibilities

• Conduct data analysis and provide detailed comparison and discussion points for manager’s review/decision to support contract negotiations.
• Gather business intelligence data e.g. market benchmark, historical pricing, suppliers’ profile to optimize negotiation strategy.
• Assist ARP team in maintaining the contracts and rates database in Asia covering functions of intermodal and land services.
• Participate and support analysis of RFQs and cost benchmarking for intermodal and land spending. Need to be well verse of Microsoft Office.
• Prepare managerial report on cost analysis, negotiation status etc, as and when required.
• Track and report ARP’s KPI achievement for intermodal and land spend periodically. Pre-alert and highlight variance when necessary.
• Monitor and periodically report on vendors’ performance through key performance indicators.
• Develop analytical tools as necessary.
• Liaise with other departments (Lines, Cost Control, Agencies…) to ensure timeliness and accuracy of all data for decision making.
• Handle any other assignments as and when assigned by the Procurement Managers for Intermodal & Land.

To perform well in this role, you should possess great data analytical mindset, strong organisational skills.

• Conduct data analysis and provide detailed comparison and discussion points for manager’s review/decision to support contract negotiations.
• Gather business intelligence data e.g. market benchmark, historical pricing, suppliers’ profile to optimize negotiation strategy.
• Assist ARP team in maintaining the contracts and rates database in Asia covering functions of intermodal and land services.
• Participate and support analysis of RFQs and cost benchmarking for intermodal and land spending. Need to be well verse of Microsoft Office.
• Prepare managerial report on cost analysis, negotiation status etc, as and when required.
• Track and report ARP’s KPI achievement for intermodal and land spend periodically. Pre-alert and highlight variance when necessary.
• Monitor and periodically report on vendors’ performance through key performance indicators.
• Develop analytical tools as necessary.
• Liaise with other departments (Lines, Cost Control, Agencies…) to ensure timeliness and accuracy of all data for decision making.
• Handle any other assignments as and when assigned by the Procurement Managers for Intermodal & Land