The Manager Procurement - Transportation drives the development of best procurement practices, including risk management, sourcing strategy definition, deployment and stakeholder management (Directors and VPs) to maximize total value contribution and fuel the Growth of the organization. The Manager of Procurement – Transportation leads a team of 2 sourcing specialists and supports the target setting and the alignment with the rest of the procurement and Supply Chain organization. Drives the procurement value contribution to Lamb Weston while ensuring compliance with policies, strategies and processes.

Position Responsibilities:

• Manage global strategy development, deployment, and strategic planning for Transportation
• Lead the development of Long Term (5 year) strategies (including Transportation strategy, supplier management strategy, and S2P strategy) to meet regional and global business expectations.
• Manage alignment and deployment of global strategies and financial plans.
• Support strategy execution across all regions/Business Units (including project prioritization, securing resources, governance and controls)
• Manage stakeholder engagement, collaboration of teams, and supplier relationships
• Lead global supplier relationship management (SRM) program for Transportation
• Manage commercial supplier relationships and contracts for Manage delivery of margin, innovation, cash flow and other deliverables for the assigned Spend Area. • Be a point person responsible for delivery of goals for the assigned Spend Area. Share best practices with all global Towers.
• Lift and shift best practices from one region/business unit to other regions/business units.
  
• Ensure standardization of processes and tools in coordination with other Towers.
• Drive harmonized global approach towards end-to-end sourcing practices (strategy to compliance).
• Coordinate delivery of assigned Regional and global KPI’s
• Manage delivery of margin, innovation, cash flow and other deliverables for Global Transportation
• Be a point person responsible and accountable for delivery of goals for Transportation

  Skills Required:

• Possess the ability and knowledge to negotiate, manage and enforce complex agreements.
• Strong experience in coordinating and managing multiple vendors and preferred vendors.
• Demonstrated interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills to interact and consult with all levels in the business units as well as external suppliers.
• Ability to collaborate productively with cross-functional, cross-geography teams and solve problems autonomously
• Ability to develop and influence relationships with suppliers and top-level leaders.
• Ability to project manage, work under pressure and meet agreed and often tight deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, formal presentation skills
• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization, from factory to VP’s and above

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of business experience in all aspects of sourcing processes including relationship management, contract negotiation and project management; or equivalent professional experience in other closely related fields/industries.
•  Experience working with diverse executive leaders and proven ability to develop agreement of priorities
• Proven ability to create appropriate sourcing strategies in different fields.
• Demonstrated interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills to interact and consult with all levels in the business units as well as external suppliers.
• Proven ability in building and managing to strategic plans and annual budgets
• Outstanding organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritization abilities; an excellent attention to detail.

Critical Competencies for Success:

Result orientation: Sets ambitious and highly competitive objectives for him-/herself and the team. Continuously exceeds the company's goals.

Adaptability: Adjusts his/her behavior and approach to meet set goals. Integrates new information and adapts his/her style of influencing as required. Adapts to new circumstances.

Initiative: Formulates proposals to improve existing situations. Anticipates in the short- and medium-term. Indicates how results might be improved.

Self-management: Can manage complex situations and can anticipate external factors. Has long-term control over his/her time and tasks.

Impact: Can convince (smaller) groups based on content (expertise) and persuasiveness. Exerts his/her influence during negotiations and can adapt his/her approach in function of the level of the target group.

Teamworking: Actively contributes to team activities, encourages others and stimulates teamwork.

Education:

• BA/BS degree in engineering/business administration. MBA or CPSM / CPM certification is a plus.