Indirect Product Purchasing Supervisor - São Caetano do Sul - BRA

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Job Description Work Arrangement - Hybrid– This position requires the employee to be hybrid 3x per week on-site.   What You’ll Do Leadership and Team Management • Supervise, monitor, coach, and develop employees across different locations while building an effective global team. • Provide technical leadership to the team and collaborate with multifunctional teams to achieve business targets. • Identify and lead staffing initiatives for the work team. • Conduct regularly scheduled team meetings and communicate GM policies, procedures, leadership messages, and safety expectations. • Communicate the functional vision and strategy, including preparing and delivering presentations when required. • Ensure employees complete all mandatory GM training and any additional training related to their functional responsibilities. • Support employees’ career development goals and develop initiatives that improve team capability and capacity. • Assign and balance workloads for direct reports and establish individual and team priorities. • Evaluate employee performance and behaviors, provide candid and constructive feedback, and facilitate performance interventions when necessary. • Recognize employee contributions formally and informally, provide timely and consistent feedback, and participate in compensation planning and administration. Purchasing, Systems, and Supplier Management • Serve as the indirect purchasing lead for new systems implementations, including SAP and SAP S/4HANA. • Act as the focal point for Conduent performance in Brazil. • Manage supplier relationships and operational performance. • Optimize the supplier footprint to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and value. • Interface with internal stakeholders to clarify prerequisites, align expectations, and drive cost-reduction initiatives. • Analyze and apply appropriate purchasing and cost-management tools, including: • Cost models and benchmarking. • Global competitive sourcing. • Value-chain analysis. • Supplier negotiations. • Engineering-change cost containment. • Technical cost reduction. • Part and system reuse. Risk Management, Problem Solving, and Execution • Identify risks and communicate them clearly and appropriately to the relevant stakeholders. • Identify problems and update or modify work methods in complex situations, including when defined procedures are not available. • Lead the team through new methods and initiatives in situations where procedures have not yet been established. • Influence stakeholders across the organization to adopt new concepts, practices, and approaches. • Remove roadblocks and resolve potential issues, complaints, and operational challenges. • Review and approve employee work schedules, overtime, expenses, and other work-related records. • Promote GM values and make customer-focused decisions.   Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) • Demonstrated experience leading, supervising, coaching, and developing employees. • Ability to lead teams across multiple locations and collaborate effectively in a global environment. • Experience in indirect purchasing, procurement operations, supplier management, or a related function. • Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, including the ability to present vision, strategy, risks, and recommendations clearly. • Ability to identify risks, solve complex problems, remove roadblocks, and make sound business decisions. • Experience managing priorities, assigning workloads, monitoring performance, and developing team capability. • Ability to influence others and drive the adoption of new concepts, practices, processes, and systems. • Strong negotiation, analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills. • Ability to work effectively wit

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