Design and Construction Supply Chain Manager

Job Purpose

Ensure we have a fit for purpose local supply chain in Latam to support our growth aspirations in the market.

Design and Construction Supply Chain Manager is responsible for: 

• Reviewing our existing suppliers (Global, Regional and Local) in market and understanding where our biggest opportunities lie for cost savings
• Identifying new local suppliers to fill these opportunities
• Following our procurement processes and practices to onboard the suppliers
• Managing the local suppliers to make sure that they are delivering
• Drive best practice and innovation in the team

Key Responsibilities

• Reduce costs from our supply chain in Latam
• Engage with functional and local lead stakeholders
• Identify, contract with and manage local suppliers in market
• Build and utilise professional, best practice procurement tools and processes
• Represent IWG and procurement professionally to external suppliers and sources
• Plan and prioritise spend and supplier reviews
• Become the ‘expert’ of knowledge, the market and technicalities of your categories
• Report on local activities by opportunity and outcome
• Investigate and provide details of all potential suppliers
• Support benchmarking across the group and identify opportunities
• Determine baseline for each responsible category
• Delivery of tangible P&L cost savings against target KPI’s
• Identify, report and track spend review opportunities and forecasted and actual savings for item in your categories
• Ensure close engagement with all stakeholders presenting regular updates
• Influence quality of specifications to support effective sourcing
• Identify and understand potential suppliers and trends for assigned categories
• Put in place a continuous improvement programme with key suppliers to deliver a pipeline of future savings
• Implement and manage developed category strategies and objectives (cost, quality, performance, consolidation etc)
• Ensure risks, issues and disaster recovery/business continuity management requirements are identified, managed and mitigated

Required Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Highly commercial and results focused - significant experience of reducing cost whilst improving standardisation.
• High drive with strong attention to detail. Can cope with a high degree of ambiguity, uncertainty and change.
• Strong resilience with the ability to keep focused on the big picture and end goal.
• Ability to positively influence multiple stakeholders across countries and cultures.
• Good knowledge of procuring construction services and office goods/equipment preferred
• Previous experience in procuring indirect category expenditure desirable
• Understanding and application of strategic sourcing process
• Understanding of the principles of supplier management
• Excellent commercial and legal negotiation skills
• Looks for ways to improve customer service/experience
• Entrepreneurial and able to think creatively to ensure that our proposition is fit for purpose
• Results focussed and Team oriented – must be able to work as part of a cross functional team to deliver end-to-end procurement & supply chain solutions across the business delivering optimal performance 
• Highly Computer literate – Excel, Word, PowerPoint systems knowledge/skills
• Likely degree or equivalent and/or member of CIPS

About the company

IWG has been at the forefront of flexible working for more than 30 years. With over 3,500 locations around the globe, spanning brands including Regus, Spaces, Signature and HQ, we have made it possible for businesses of all sizes to make the transition to hybrid working, empowering employees to work wherever and whenever is most convenient.

We help more than 8 million people and their businesses to work more productively, supported by a choice of professional, inspiring and collaborative workspaces, communities and services.

As the world’s leading provider of hybrid work solutions, with four times the number of locations compared to its nearest competitor, IWG is already working with over 80% of the Fortune 500 and counts businesses including Amazon, Netflix, EY and Uber amongst its customers.

Companies of all sizes are shifting to flexible working to lower costs, improve employee retention and lower their carbon emissions. The flexible workspace is expected to grow by 600% by 2023, when 30% of all office space will be hybrid. We are growing our network faster than ever to keep up with demand from customers as we work towards our goal of reaching 30,000 centres.

Carbon Neutral Workplaces

IWG’s purpose of helping everyone have a great day at work, while protecting people and the planet is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to supply all of our customers worldwide with carbon neutral workplaces, and we have a strong climate action plan in place to help us achieve our objective of Net Zero emissions by 2040.

Leading Employer Award
IWG is proud to be the recipient of a Leading Employer Award in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Awarded exclusively to the top 1% of employers, the accolade is testament to our diverse global workforce and the role everyone plays in bringing our purpose, culture and values to life, every single day. 

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