Contract - Real Estate and Office Services Procurement Senior Manager

• Global leadership for one or more master category strategies for the Real Estate and Office Services industries
• Leadership of key strategic relationships in both the EMEA region and globally
• Recruit, supervise and professionally develop other Procurement team members
• Independently source and negotiate contracts while simultaneously guiding other team members
• Advise Procurement leadership on key trends and strategic decisions
• Ability to collaborate across the Deloitte Member firms and within Global Procurement
• Manage categories proactively based on internal/external trends and data and be able to communicate effectively to enable informed decisions by leadership
• Manage spend and activity data from multiple sources ensuring high accuracy and timely delivery to identify trends, gaps and opportunities
• Monitor supplier performance based on metrics and update on internal/external trends
• Ability to respond to inquiries from leadership and stakeholders with accuracy and timeliness
• Assess new opportunities for continuous improvement through new technologies and process enhancements
• Assist global category leadership in managing supplier and internal customer relationships to improve internal client satisfaction

Relationship building, influencing, and collaboration skills

• Experience in managing teams
• Project management experience
• Program management experience
• Ability to engage with senior executives to influence decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Persuasive and convincing communication skills (e.g., proposals, reports, plans) to secure commitment from business leaders
• Strong knowledge of standard Category Execution process
• Strong understanding of common sourcing templates, tools, and methodologies
• Deep knowledge of the Master Category Strategy approach
• Ability to interpret member firm needs and commercial strategies as input into the category strategy Other Qualifications
• Working independently in an unstructured environment; developing structure and clarity around the ambiguous by taking a concept and developing ideas/about solutions to achieve progress
• Being self-directed in identifying what has to get done and in doing it with minimal direction
• Using good judgment about when to ask for direction and when to act independently
• Navigating through complex collaborative initiatives
• Understanding, documenting, and improving business processes
• Organization, task planning and setting/meeting deadlines
• Working under tight time constraints, juggling multiple priorities
• Interacting with internal clients and stakeholders at both junior and senior levels of the organization

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