Who are Inchcape?
At Inchcape Shipping Services, our vision is to create a connected world where customers can trade successfully and make informed decisions in every port, everywhere. We achieve this by combining our worldwide infrastructure with local expertise, through our global network of more than 250 proprietary offices and a team of over 3,000 dedicated professionals. Our diverse customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil, cruise, container, and bulk commodity sectors, as well as naval, government, and intergovernmental organizations.
We have an ambitious growth model, and a career here is certainly going to be a rewarding one that will allow you to bring your skills
& experience. We embrace change and are open to new thinking and pushing for positive change in our industry.
Job Purpose:
An Assistant Manager of PSAM oversees end-to-end purchasing, vendor management, and financial compliance to drive cost efficiency. Key responsibilities include negotiating contracts, managing purchase orders, ensuring timely payments, and reconciling accounts. They also generate MIS reports, conduct market research, and ensure compliance with internal and statutory policies.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Excellent communication, persuasion, and organizational skills. Comfortable presentation to senior leadership.
- Global procurement includes procuring and managing IT hardware/ software on a global scale.
- Ability to manage several projects while ensuring deliverables are fully met on time.
- Conduct market intelligence activities that include industry trends, suppliers, and best practices.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective business partner relationships at higher levels within the organization.
- Ability to perform pricing analysis and evaluations of total cost of ownership and drive cost avoidance and cost savings.
- Ability to identify risk areas associated with sourcing strategies across multiple factors including single/ sole sourced goods/services, financial, inflationary, etc.
- Strong understanding of contract law and regulations as they relate to IT Products and services.
- Strong knowledge of the multiple facets of negotiations, including the ability to construct negotiation plans that extend beyond price and that include legal and business contractual terms and SLAs.
- Ability to lead Suppler Relationship Management for the IT category that includes leading Quarterly Business Review meetings, creation of scorecards that effectively monitor vendor’s performance, and defining continuous improvement opportunities to drive additional value from the partnership.
Essential:
- Excellent communication, persuasion, and organizational skills. Comfortable presentation to senior leadership.
- Ability to manage several projects while ensuring deliverables are fully met on time.
- Conduct market intelligence activities that include industry trends, suppliers, and best practices.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective business partner relationships at higher levels within the organization.
- Ability to perform pricing analysis and evaluations of total cost of ownership and drive cost avoidance and cost savings.
- Ability to identify risk areas associated with sourcing strategies across multiple factors including single/ sole sourced goods/services, financial, inflationary, etc.
- Strong understanding of contract law and regulations as they relate to IT Products and services.
- Strong knowledge of the multiple facets of negotiations, including the ability to construct negotiation plans that extend beyond price and that include legal and business contractual terms and SLAs.
- Ability to lead Suppler Relationship Management for the IT category that includes leading Quarterly Business Review meetings, creation of scorecards that effectively monitor vendor’s performance, and defining continuous improvement opportunities to drive additional value from the partnership.
- Minimum Qualifications 5-7 years of Experience across accounting, procurement & MIS reporting
Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, finance, statistics, project management, business or related field.
Desirable
- Global experience in procurements.
- Strong communication skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office especially excel, proven negotiation, and supplier management skills. Strong analytical.
- capabilities (data analysis and benchmarking IT) etc.
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