Procurement Category Expert (Corporate Services & Facility Management)

Job Description

Job information
Division/Unit: Finance, Sustainability & Research / Procurement
Contract type: open-ended
Location: Nyon (WFH up to one day per week)
Start date: TBC

Main goal

The Procurement Category Expert leads the category at strategic and tactical levels, contributes to procurement success by defining and implementing a clear strategy, realising optimisation potentials and ensuring an attractive and accurate supplier portfolio within the category, meeting business requirements.
The incumbent is responsible for plan-to-strategy (P2S) and source-to-contract (S2C) processes within the category, performs tenders and acts in UEFA’s best interests.

Key responsibilities

P2S

• Analysing spending and contract information
• Forecasting and consolidating future requirements together with the necessary specifications for the category in consultation with internal customers
• Evaluating suppliers and analysing their performance
• Analysing supply market and supplier portfolios
• Identifying and evaluating optimisation levers in consultation with internal customers
• Defining the category and supplier strategy for the future season and/or competition cycle
• Assessing risks within the category and defining respective mitigation plans
• Defining an action plan in consultation with internal customers and monitoring implementation

S2C

• Compiling specifications from internal customer and challenging them to identify potential optimisation
• Evaluating existing and new suppliers proposed by internal customers
• Screening the market for additional potential suppliers
• Carrying out RFI/RFP and conducting financial health check on potential new suppliers
• Defining the sourcing approach, responsibilities and sourcing project team
• Preparing and aligning a supplier longlist as well as RFP documents and providing the RFP to suppliers
• Answering RFP questions and evaluating commercial and technical/functional offers together with business
• Analysing TCO for the services and optimising service levels and/or price level, conducting negotiations
• Selecting suppliers and obtaining approval from procurement management and internal customers
• Supporting the legal team in finalising contracts

P2P

• Helping internal customers with claims management
• Supporting buyers in supplier evaluations during the P2P process

Other

• Taking part in budget planning rounds/discussions
• Taking part in the development of the overall procurement strategy
• Innovation management and organisational development within the Procurement unit
• Risk management (supply/commercial risk identification and countermeasures) within the category
• Supplier management
• Contract management