Regional Logistics Procurement Manager

Syngenta Crop Protection

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Role purpose

• This role is part of the AMEA Direct Procurement Team (Non – AI , Logistics) and should work in close coordination with Category Lead ensuring common strategies, standards and the establishment of a regional organization with global alignment.
• Develop, validate, and implement sustainable country category and sub-category strategies which are closely aligned with business requirements delivering cost effective solutions for operational requirements and aiming at reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO).Strategies will typically cover a 1 to 3 year time horizon
• Work closely with the business leaders in the country(s) to ensure that the country(s) business requirements are clearly understood, appropriately challenged, and taken into account in the Category and Sub-Category strategies (Demand management)
• Leads and manages the end-to-end sourcing activities within the countries.
• Develops and maintains close working relationships with Country P&S Leads to ensure Logistics Procurement delivers significant savings consistently.
• Builds relationships with stakeholders, regional teams, and delivers saving targets.
• Provide tailored Procurement solutions for the business where the business requirements cannot be met by a Category/Sub-Category strategy or existing buying channel
• Act as an ambassador of Procurement and Global Sourcing and be the country(s) champion for all Procurement policies, processes and tools
• Continuous self development to meet the sourcing requirements
• Provide expert regional external supply market knowledge across the Category.

Dimensions

• Financial: Deliver Savings and Budget targets
• People: No direct reports, the ability to co-ordinate and influence multiple team members and stakeholders
• Geographic Scope: India, Philippines and Singapore; Regional activities on coordination with AMEA countries; other Logistics Sourcing Regional and Global projects.

Accountabilities

Key elements of the role include but are not be limited to:

• Manages end-to-end sourcing activities within countries, aligning with category strategies.
• Builds relationships with stakeholders and regional teams, ensuring compliance with procurement policies and process including tendering and contract management.
• Develops and manages relationships with key suppliers, including negotiation and contract management.
• Deploys category and sub-category strategies within the country, ensuring alignment with management teams.
• Designs and executes tailored procurement solutions where standard strategies or channels are insufficient.
• Optimizes vendor relationships and utilizes e-tools effectively to leverage value.
• Verifies and agrees on financial performance within the country, including savings delivery and budget data.
• Delivers agreed savings targets while maintaining quality and meeting time requirements.
• Works closely with business leaders to understand and address requirements, ensuring alignment with category strategies.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders, providing regular reports on achievements, issues, and constraints.
• Actively engages in continuous self-development to meet requirements.
• Focuses on sustainability throughout the procurement process.
• Implement risk management strategies to mitigate potential disruptions in the supply chain.
• Solves complex problems and may be required to develop solutions to problems newly arising
• Be the face of procurement to the country management team, ensuring they are aware of and actively support procurement policies, processes and tools across the territory.
• Effective utilization of the e-tools to leverage value
• Be and act as an ambassador of the Procurement organization
• Manage the quality & risks associated with the category and supplier base
• Align, support and consider global strategies / projects and practices within category
• Demonstrate compliance with procurement processes, Supplier Relationship Management (including performance management) and contract management
• Map key stakeholders with whom relations need to be established and maintained
• Uses agreed reporting and communication structures to ensure all stakeholders are adequately informed of initiatives
• Develop constructive working relationships with key suppliers ensuring supplier adherence to safety, health, environment and community involvement
• Conduct joint benchmarking and best practice reviews on category management practices
• Drive continuous improvements in all relevant work processes.

Knowledge, skills & experience

• Critical knowledge & capability in developing sourcing strategies leading the implementation.
• Good knowledge of procurement policies and procedures.
• Strong background in use of procurement tools: Ariba, e-rfx, e procurement, SAP, and reporting analytical tools.
• Excellent knowledge of supply markets and logistics domain.
• Ability to handle detailed information and analyse and extract critical issues.
• Good knowledge of financial measurements, how to build a business case including ROI.
• In depth knowledge of internal purchasing policies, procedures, and processes
• Leadership of complex projects
• Cross-cultural understanding
• Good understanding of how to influence and sell internally.
• Knowledge of market intelligence methodologies to gather and analyse relevant information
• Knowledge of analytical skills to analyse the data acquired.

Critical skills

• Good decision making, Strong negotiation and contract management skills
• Strong interpersonal, presentation and communication skill; ability to work in cross functional teams; organisation skills internally and suppliers externally
• Strong organisation, implementation, analytic and influencing skills.
• Proactive self starter who can work independently
• Strong ability to extract and analyse internal customer requirements.
• Development of strategic relationships with suppliers
• Contract management skills
• Good communication and presentation competencies

Critical experience

• 5-10 years’ experience gained in Logistics/Supply Chain operations and Procurement
• Strong business partnering experience and stakeholder management.
• Working in a multi-national, multi-cultural environment
• Proven record of success in negotiations with suppliers
• Relationship management experience either internally or externally
• Strong procurement experience with demonstrated success.
• Experience in handling complex procurement challenges and finding effective solutions.
• Successful participation in cross-functional team initiatives
• Experience in working independently and to a high level of accuracy
• Experience in supporting and creating category strategies
• Bachelor’s Degree, additional qualification e.g. MBA in Supply Chain/Operations/Procurement

Travel within AMEA is expected.

Innovations

Employee may, as part of his/her role and maybe through multifunctional teams, participates in the creation and design of innovative solutions. In this context, Employee may contribute to inventions, designs, other work product, including know-how, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions, and other intellectual assets. All such IP is and remains the sole property of Syngenta.