Procurement Senior Officer, Indirect

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
In this role, you will be working closely with APAC Indirect Procurement Manager to formulate and implement procurement strategies for indirect purchases across APAC region. You will be responsible for sourcing and negotiating contracts and services. You will collaborate with stakeholders to define procurement strategies, manage supplier relationships, and drive cost-effective solutions. 

Your expertise in procurement processes, market trends and contract management will play a crucial role in optimizing our procurement activities. 

To excel in this role, you should be a strategic thinker with excellent negotiation skills and a deep understanding of procurement management.

Your main responsibilities are, but not limited to:

• Facilitate and manage procurement processes, tendering, negotiation, contract award and contract management.
• Develop and improve administrative processes to drive constant improvements
• Develop and drive category strategies that document end-to-end sourcing approaches, solutions development, supplier selection, cost performance, quality performance, etc. with clear implementation roadmaps.
• Ability to interface independently with key stakeholders; serve as the procurement team’s expert who provides sound advice & recommendation to all user departments
• Engage and conduct business reviews with key suppliers and internal stakeholders on a regular basis with the aim of enhancing operations, cost efficiency, meeting and/or exceeding all contractual set service levels/agreement.
• Monitor and report against established and defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure the progress and success of the procurement programs.
• Provide advice on all procurement related issues to all levels of internal employees and discuss detailed contractual issues on a wide and varied portfolio to ensure that contractual terms and obligations are fully understood and that both financial and supply risks are minimized.

Minimum Requirements

• At least 3 to 5 years of experience in indirect procurement i.e. facility management, Travel etc
• Experience and competence to understand dynamic APAC market environments
• Degree in Business Administration/ Supply Chain
• Good knowledge of strategic sourcing, tendering process, contract management, contract negotiation and contract governance
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel & Powerpoint)

**This role is opened for local employment only
 
We will only consider applicants who have received, or are willing to receive by the date of recruitment, the full regimen of a WHO EUL vaccine (examples include Pfizer-BioNTech/COMIRNATY, Moderna, Sinovac-CoronaVac, and AstraZeneca). Proof of vaccination will be required.
 
**Salary package (local) & job title shall commensurate with experience.
**Kindly note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
 
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(i) To process the application for the role being applied for;
(ii) To process the application for other open positions within the CMA CGM Group which may be suitable to you;
(iii) To conduct necessary reference checks; and
(iv) Any other purpose related to one or more of the above.
 
You further consent to the CMA CGM Group retaining such personal information for a period of two years following your submission thereof, so that we may consider you for other open positions within the CMA CGM Group which may be suitable to you in the event that you are not selected for this role.
 
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES: Please note that CMA CGM Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, CMA CGM Group will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, CMA CGM Group explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of CMA CGM Group.

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