Procurement Project Manager

at  Marley Spoon

Marley Spoon is the new way to cook. We bring delightful, market-fresh, and easy cooking back to the people. We operate across 3 continents and in 6 countries with over +1500 employees worldwide. Being passionate foodies, we are using technology to reinvent the global food supply chain to reduce food waste.
We are looking for a Procurement Project Manager to integrate our Global Transformation Team, who will work with internal stakeholders to analyze and identify opportunities across our indirect spend.
You will contribute to Marley Spoon’s success by effectively negotiating / implementing corporate contracts and by managing a diverse set of supplier relationships to deliver significant annual improvements in both cost and service levels. You will consistently deliver measurable and strategic goals to enable competitive advantage to bottom-line / top-line company growth, and corporate social responsibility leadership.

REQUIREMENTS

• 3-5 years of experience in procurement, finance, audit, management consulting or a project management role with an emphasis on indirect services;
• Ambitious, entrepreneurial, and data-driven team player with high integrity, strong knowledge, and interest in market analysis, digital services, supplier relationship management, continuous improvement programs;
• Solid analytical skills, solutions-oriented, able to work in a fast-paced environment;
• Knowledge of critical legal requirements and contracting best practices;
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication;
• Ability to structure RFPs & RFQ’s to evaluate proposals against a broad set of evaluation criteria and provide recommendations for vendor selection;
• Vendor risk management experience;
• Knowledge of contracting trends, traditional and emerging contracts, and vendor performance models; expert negotiation tactics and strategies; proven track record of negotiations that result in cost savings and risk avoidance;
• Strong experience with MS Office Suite or G-Suite;
• Project management experience would be a distinct advantage.

• Analyze opportunities and launch tender offers for diverse services, namely insurance, audit and legal services;
• Continuously investigate new digital tools and services to drive best-in-class digital tool set-up and experience;
• Show strong knowledge of key industry players, competitors, technology, and market dynamics;
• Develop new effective business and professional relationships with strategic suppliers and industry players, manage and measure suppliers for continuous performance and improvement;
• Gather and analyze data to identify tactical and strategic methods to improve service level and/or reduce operational costs, as well as identify potential opportunities within the indirect categories space;
• Analyze and interpret instructions, correspondence, articles/journals, financial reports, and movement reports, and formulate effective action plans based on data analysis;
• Strong sense of accountability to deliver the targeted savings to improve our bottom line profitability, effectively managing multiple projects and deadlines;
• Effective collaboration with internal stakeholders to deliver improvements in our contracts (cost, performance, quality) and ensure compliance;
• Provide analysis and information to senior management and the F&A team on plans and benefit of actions;
• Lead key negotiation activities with suppliers to deliver benefits to the business and draft (with the legal team’s support) and implement successful supplier agreements, manage the contract life cycle of categories as assigned;
• Mitigate risk in the portfolios to ensure service and quality to the business;
• Drive commercial tenders through RFP / RFQ;
• Independently solve problems and make decisions for primary and strategic execution and tactical issues within the relevant portfolio of projects and or processes