Head of Procurement – Visual Merchandising

Définition de poste

As the Head of Procurement you will be in charge of the budget, purchasing and logistics management of Visual Merchandising department (world-wide scope)

Within the Visual Merchandising department, reporting to the VM Director, you supervise the department’s purchasing and logistics.

1/ Budget management:

• Monitoring the budgets of the VM teams in France
• Consolidation and budgetary monitoring of expenditure in subsidiaries
• Follow-up of invoices, re-invoicing between countries
• Interface with finance and accounting departments for budget monitoring
• Control of quotes and invoices

2/ Purchasing and logistics management:

• Manage the research and development on new suppliers
• Negotiate volume discounts, deadline, quality with suppliers
• Find effective cost savings
• Assist with the purchase policy implementation and certification process (financial and administrative certification, sample…)
• Create and maintain a database of all references, suppliers, prices, deadline and budget sheets to extract useful information to build strong, reliable benchmarks for estimation costs of future projects
• Produce constant reports for every construction project in order to keep track of all costs related to every material, supplier and contractor used