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Marketing Procurement Specialist with Romanian
Lokalizacja: Kraków, Poland
Job Overview
This role will support the A&M Procurement agenda for RO MU and CE BU and is responsible for supporting the management of agency roster and optimization on Non-working A&M initiatives particularly in the area of agency fees, contracting and reporting.
Responsibilities
- This role will support Advertising and Marketing (A&M) Procurement agenda for Romania and CE (Central Europe) region in optimization in the area of tender facilitation, vendor management, negotiations agency fees, ad production & A&M reporting.
- Identify efficiency opportunities and understand business needs, focus areas and spend
- Support brand teams in agency negotiations
- Develop and maintain preferred supplier lists approved by the category leads and updated annually; socialize the use of the list by brand teams & track adherence
- Partner with brand teams & legal to lead high standard contracts incl KPI’s with agency partners and contract compliance
- Suppliers performance management
- Ensure all procurement activities comply with internal policies and procedures. Control owner for GCS P2P controls (suppliers’ selection, contracts & TPDD)
- P2P Policy Training for Brand Managers
- Efficiencies tracking and alignment with stakeholders
Procurement support for other markets if needed.
Qualifications
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in marketing sourcing or transactional procurement at a FMCG company or alternatively in client service or strategic planning in an advertising agency
- Some experience with contract negotiations either at the agency end or at a marketer is mandatory
- Understanding of the Procurement process
- Bachelor’s Degree in any disciple.
- Good communication skills and proficiency in English language
- Romanian is a must
- Analytical skills, business acumen and knowledge of financial fundamentals
- Capacity to build trustful relationships in all levels of organization
- Strong people skills and the ability to interact with key stakeholders and build trust at all levels of the organization.
- Intellectual curiosity and a challenging mind set.
- Strong business acumen, knowledge of financial fundamentals and analytical skills.
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
- Interest in Procurement with a view to developing a career in this function.
- Attention for details
- Resilience, persistence & curiosity
- Collaborative mindset
