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**CLIENT**
Largest Asian restaurant company and is the Philippines' largest Food Service business.
The company is continuously expanding its presence in the Philippines and in foreign countries
**JOB DESCRIPTION**
- Creation and ongoing value creation with a world class supply base
- Development of organizational procurement strategy
- Creation and management of short, mid, and long term goals and objectives
- Creation and improvement of best-practice based processes (e.g., leadership of high-value/strategic sourcing efforts)
- Identification and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities
- Selection and management of procurement systems
- Management of procurement staff in (and across) sourcing, contracting, transactional purchasing, supplier management, and miscellaneous internal procurement support activities
- Budget management for categories under management - and for procurement itself
- Building a Procurement Center of Excellence (CoE) to help transform Procurement, and also support broader transformation of the value chain and the enterprise
**JOB QUALIFICATION**
- Strong leadership skills
- Team player at executive levels to collaborate with business units and functional partners like IT, finance, HR, legal, etc.
The biggest reason for CPOs not staying long at a firm is due to culture
- Solid operational management and general business skills and savvy
- Working knowledge of finance and/or accounting in terms of budgeting cost management, financial accounting, treasury, risk management, etc.
- Ability to "sell" procurement's value and to run procurement as a services business like any other well-run professional services business
- In-depth knowledge of sourcing and procurement principles and best practices, but doesn't have to come from within the procurement ranks
- Strong negotiation skills to use for large commercial deals
- Experience with modern sourcing and procurement systems
**ACTIVE DATES**
April 13 - May 31, 2018