Regional Procurement Manager – Base Oil

Role Overview

• To be accountable for the development and implementation of regional Base Oil sourcing strategy within the Base Oil supply market segment.
• To develop and maintain deep relationships with business partners ensuring sourcing strategy supports local business strategy and vice versa.
• To develop and maintain the relationship with regional suppliers and local relationship with global suppliers.
• Handle the category across all 5 pillars of the procurement strategy aligned to business goals.
• Give to development of base oil strategy, plans and priorities.
• Course correct the category's evolving position based on the risk and opportunity using the procurement chessboard.
• Subject matter expert for Base Oil category and maintaining key partner connectivity.
• Track market developing an improvement plan to create more value from supply base interactions.
• Define and meet performance measures for the category, reflecting business requirements and market opportunities.
• Track levels of risk and provide management information on risk assessments and feedback to the Global Base Oil Director via agreed risk reporting mechanism.
• Own the full sourcing process to ensure delivery of business plans and category strategies in collaboration with business partners.
• Generate the supplier portfolio, select suppliers, and lead the supplier negotiation.
• Integrate suppliers through the implementation of new contracts, ensuring efficient change management.
• Maintain an outward focus on the supply base with pro-active, investigative supply market tracking and receptiveness to innovation and change instigated by suppliers.
• Support and drive OD&I activities to promote supply and specification developments in line with business needs and supplier capabilities.
• Ensure full compliance with all category, regulatory and BP corporate social, environmental and financial risk and HSE.
• Support provision of timely supply market knowledge to the business, relaying current and future impactful events and their potential consequences.
• Work collaboratively with the wider GSC and IST shipping to ensure no Base Oil stock outs at the plants occur.
• Support supplier management, including ongoing contract management and control, collation of performance data (through supervising supplier performance data collection and analysis), and plan and complete supplier meetings.
• Identify, select, and handle key suppliers for continuous improvement through rigorous cost and value analysis across circa $700m spend.

Requirements

• University degree and equivalent work experience, in an appropriate technical and commercial field.
• Direct raw material category experience in global businesses.
• Advanced sourcing methodologies and tools.
• Lubricants industry experience is an added advantage however open to FMCG/Commodities industries.
• Shown competence of working in multiple regions with cross functional partners.
• Shown expertise to Lead negotiations with strategic suppliers and deliver value to the business.
• Contract Negotiations and Management experiences.
• Senior partner management experiences.
• Supplier Relationship and Performance Management experiences.
• Shown Commercial competence.
• Sound Financial Management of the Category.

Benefits

• No travel is expected with this role
• This role is not eligible for relocation