Manager Non Trade Procurement

Latin America Non-Trade Procurement (LAM NTP) acts as a strategic business partner, ensuring supplier relationships and business engagements align with company policies, commercial objectives, risk management principles and procurement best practices. The role holds end-to-end ownership of the local procurement agenda in Peru, ensuring alignment with regional and global strategies while addressing local business needs and regulatory requirements. It sits within the Finance department, reports directly to M3 NTP Chile & Peru with an indirect reporting line to the Peru FD, and also contributes to regional initiatives across Latin America.

• Act as the primary SPOC for the countries and categories in scope, building strong relationships with finance, business leaders, enabling functions and key stakeholders, including all NTP layers (local, regional, global and GBS).
• Serve as a strategic business partner, translating business needs into procurement strategies and constructively challenging requirements to maximise commercial and operational value in line with company policies.
• Independently build and manage a pipeline of sourcing initiatives aligned with business priorities and value-creation ambitions, anticipating business needs and influencing decisions while balancing commercial objectives, procurement governance and a One Team mindset.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing initiatives, including RFx, negotiations, supplier assessments and sourcing recommendations, and develop sourcing strategies leveraging TCO, demand management, market intelligence and negotiation best practices.
• Manage cross-functional sourcing projects and partner with finance, business leaders and other stakeholders to ensure contractual alignment, implementation of negotiated conditions and financial benefit tracking.
• Develop and execute local category strategies while contributing to regional NTP projects and priorities across Latin America, using spend analysis, benchmarking, market research and supplier assessments to identify trends, risks and commercial opportunities
• And promoting process standardisation and knowledge sharing across all NTP layers.
• Drive cost optimisation, supplier consolidation, demand management and cross-market synergies, act as an advisor and escalation point for category-related issues, and maintain category management tools, supplier rosters and buying channels.
• Manage relationships with key suppliers, driving performance, innovation and long-term value creation through performance reviews and QBRs that monitor KPIs, contractual commitments, risks and improvement opportunities, and proactively address supplier-related risks and performance issues.
• Identify and drive opportunities to leverage AI, automation and digital solutions, translating NTP and business challenges into practical digital use cases with Tech, GBS and other teams to improve efficiency, decision-making and stakeholder experience.
• Ensure compliance with NTP policies, training, sourcing procedures, approval requirements and internal control standards, proactively identifying governance gaps and supplier risks, supporting audit-related initiatives and balancing commercial agility with appropriate governance.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Law or related fields.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience, preferably in strategic sourcing, category management or indirect procurement.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading sourcing projects, negotiations and cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing, category management, negotiation, TCO, demand management and supplier relationship management.
• Experience across indirect procurement categories such as Marketing, Retail, Logistics, Professional Services, Facilities and Tech.
• Strong business acumen, analytical capabilities and business case development skills, with the ability to deliver sustainable bottom-line savings and broader business value.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI (e.g. Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude), automation, analytics or digital tools to improve processes, productivity or decision-making.
• Experience working in multinational, matrix organisations and collaborating with shared service centres (GBS).
• Knowledge of procurement systems (e.g. Ariba Guided Buying/Sourcing, SAP) and proficiency in MS Office.
• Fluent English and Spanish, written and spoken.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• Proactive, autonomous and results-oriented, demonstrating ownership, accountability and the ability to lead initiatives without formal authority.
• Curious, adaptable and resilient, with strong problem-solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to foster innovation, challenge the status quo and take calculated risks to drive business value and process simplification.
• Collaborative team player with an international mindset, capable of navigating diverse stakeholders and balancing local, regional and global priorities.

• Prior people management experience is a plus, but not required.
• Power BI and automation tools are a plus.

• Finance department
• GSMS Grade M4
• No personnel managed; no budget managed
• Direct reporting line: M3 NTP Chile & Peru; indirect reporting line: Peru FD

• $1 – $2 per hour