Glencore is one of the world's largest diversified natural resources companies and a leading producer and marketer of more than 60 products that make everyday life possible. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the raw materials that enable decarbonization, while meeting today's energy needs. With around 140,000 employees and contractors and a strong presence in more than 35 countries, both in established and emerging regions in terms of natural resources, our industrial and marketing activities are supported by a global network of more than 40 offices.
Purpose and objective
Understand the characteristics of Glencore's internal demand and understand the market dynamics of the local market, main suppliers and competitiveness of the industry, to proactively seek opportunities, create value through the negotiation of contracts for the supply of goods and services with better conditions than the existing ones and carry out the quotation/bidding processes and monitoring of the contract.
Technical background, experience and skills
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, International Trade or related
Minimum 1 year of experience in contract administration, cost control, sourcing, and similar roles.
Intermediate management of analysis tools such as Excel, Project, Power Point, Word, Access, ERP (ideally SAP).
Ability to plan and conduct negotiations.
Ability to apply different strategies and identify opportunities for creating strategic alliances with suppliers, evaluate and recommend alternatives.
Responsabilities
1. Develop and manage the comprehensive sourcing analysis under its scope of responsibility. The analyses must be carried out in depth, having full knowledge of the internal demand (technical analysis, use and restrictions) and the supplier market. Make demand projections anticipating discontinuities.
2.Search, contact and evaluate potential suppliers, ensuring the availability of competitive alternatives aligned with the company's policies
3. Maintain a fluid and proactive relationship with current and potential suppliers, ensuring compliance with quality, safety and sustainability standards.
4. Ensure updated market information, benchmarking, cost structure analysis, supplier analysis, analysis of other sources of supply, among others.
5. Identify opportunities for value addition or savings in their scope of operation and articulate an action plan, seeking to maximize regional synergies, identifying and validating with Sites both internal and associated with the supplier's chain.
6. Support and challenge the user areas in defining demand, in terms of quantity, technical specifications and quality/level of service.
7. Execute the sourcing strategy in the assigned area with excellence and according to Glencore's policies. Comply with the corresponding supply plan.
8. Monitor contractual compliance, analyzing the performance of current suppliers, according to compliance in quality, time and cost, making reports with SLAs and supplier performance.
9. Monitor the materialization of the benefits captured through hiring.
10. Provide effective and timely solutions to problems and specific needs of users within the agreed SLAs.
11.Support negotiation, quotation/bidding processes and award of contracts, collecting information and generating relevant analyses that allow identifying opportunities for value addition.
12. Evaluate, compare and present recommendations for the award of contracts, involving the user areas when appropriate. Manage and facilitate the distribution and approval of Contractual documents.
13. Generate reportability on the products/services managed.
14. Generate reports and presentations for kick-off meetings between supplier and user areas.