Senior Procurement Manager, Japan & Guam

Job Summary 

Senior Manager Procurement, Japan is a very important position in Marriott Hotels Japan cluster procurement department and reports & works under the direction of Area Director of Finance (Solid line reporting to ADOF & dotted line reporting to Director of Procurement APEC) 

Responsibilities includes supporting Marriott Japan hotels with rolls and responsibilities of Managing new national contracts, renewals of existing contracts, administering annual tender process for different markets, promoting diversity and sustainable sourcing, improving contract compliance, work towards over all procurement cost improvement, process improvement across organization in close coordination with Senior Manager Procurement along with other different procurement committees.

Also leads an establishing ethical working practice, across all procuring functionaries and vendors, through regular review and updating of the agreed policies as relates to the procuring function

Duties & work Responsibilities

• Work towards agreed procurement strategies and ensure year on year improvement in purchase cost.
• Works towards complete Procurement activities including and not limited to market survey, vendor sourcing, tendering process management, contracting, vendor evaluation, vendor audits. Keeping close tab on market survey & vendor audits conducted by team.
• Regularly maintaining and reviewing Contract register for Japan market and administer national and multi-location contracts to improve savings and contact compliance 
• Analyzing procurement data of Japan market and recommending various cost saving opportunities 
• Ensure compliance to ethical and transparent procurement processes thru regular revies and coaching team
• Regularly interacting with different stake holders such as Operations, Engineering, IT, Culinary, Finance to explore and work towards possible 
• Closely monitor various market survey reports such as wholesale price, Retail price, Competitive price Analysis and work closely with hotels towards cost improvement opportunities
• Conducting market research and keep abreast of emerging trends and business opportunities.
• Supporting cluster hotels in Annual procurement activities and by managing the purchase raw material consumables – food and non-food by working with operation hotels to ensure that objectives are met related to Quality and cost
• Developing & reviewing various MIS reports as required by management.

COMPETENCIES

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