SCO - Procurement - Manager - Cost Optimization

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Manager - Procurement Cost Optimization Strategic Sourcing | Cost Take-out, Category Management & Savings Delivery   EXPERIENCE  :  7-10 years   ROLE SUMMARY   The Manager will support procurement cost optimization, strategic sourcing, category management, and procurement transformation initiatives. The role focuses on delivering measurable savings, improving procurement performance, driving sourcing excellence, and supporting broader transformation programs. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical, commercial, and stakeholder management skills, with experience identifying savings opportunities, supporting category strategies, and helping deliver value across procurement functions.     KEY RESPONSIBILITIES   Cost Optimization & Savings Delivery

Conduct spend analysis and identify savings opportunities across procurement categories. Support cost reduction initiatives through strategic sourcing, supplier consolidation, demand management, specification optimization, and negotiation programs. Develop savings tracking mechanisms, value capture plans, and benefits realization frameworks. Support cost governance activities, including savings validation, initiative tracking, risk monitoring, and progress reporting. Prepare opportunity assessment outputs, cost reduction business cases, and prioritization recommendations for procurement leadership.

Category Management & Strategic Sourcing

Develop category strategies for indirect and direct spend categories, with focus on commercial value, supplier performance, and business alignment. Execute sourcing events, supplier evaluations, commercial assessments, bid analysis, and negotiation support activities. Analyze supply markets, internal demand patterns, supplier landscapes, and pricing trends to identify category-specific improvement opportunities. Support supplier performance and category governance programs, including scorecards, review cadences, and improvement actions. Bring category expertise across areas such as professional services, business services, technology, facilities, logistics, operations support, and other enterprise spend categories as relevant.

Procurement Analytics & Value Realization

Use procurement analytics, spend reporting, and savings dashboards to support fact-based decision-making. Analyze baseline spend, supplier fragmentation, contract coverage, purchase price variance, and compliance gaps to identify value opportunities. Support development of savings pipelines, initiative trackers, performance reports, and executive-level procurement updates. Translate data insights into practical sourcing, negotiation, and procurement performance improvement actions. Support benefits realization tracking to ensure identified savings are implemented, measured, and sustained.

Procurement Transformation Support

Contribute to procurement operating model improvement initiatives, including process redesign, governance enhancement, and sourcing excellence programs. Support implementation of Source-to-Pay transformation and process improvement programs. Assist in developing business cases, transformation roadmaps, implementation plans, and workstream deliverables. Support procurement policy, workflow, controls, and process standardization initiatives that improve efficiency and compliance. Work with digital procurement teams where relevant to improve visibility, reporting, and adoption of procurement tools.

Supplier Performance & Commercial Improvement

Support supplier performance improvement initiatives, including performance review preparation,