#### Position Description:


The General Procurement organization is responsible for sourcing, purchasing,
and managing spend for all non-production goods or services used internally by
Lenovo. Major operating expense categories: RD, manufacturing, and workforce.
The General Procurement team is responsible for leading the following
activities:
• Working with business unit/budget owner (our internal Lenovo stakeholders),
on appropriate spending strategy, including industry best practices,
category/market trend analysis, and supplier capabilities;
• Appropriately selecting Supplier sources based on driving competitive
sourcing activities;
• Forming contracts with selected Suppliers to help ensure both deliverables
and risk avoidance;
• Managing Supplier performance via stakeholder feedback and performance-based
metrics;
• Ensuring appropriate business controls are in place to protect Lenovo.

As an Indirect sourcing manager, this candidate will be responsible for
sourcing, managing, and optimizing the purchase of goods and services on all
indirect buys for Lenovo.  He/she should have experience in indirect
procurement, the desire to engage Lenovo’s internal stakeholders to provide
sourcing strategies and drive procurement initiatives, and be the commercial
lead for spend and supplier management.

The candidate will be responsible for five (5) primary business metrics:
• Manage and optimize Lenovo’s Spend with external suppliers, generating
Procurement Value-Add for Lenovo;
• Drive Customer Satisfaction (Serviceability) for our internal Lenovo
executives and operations teams through Supplier selection and engagement;
• Ensure adequate Business Controls are in place surrounding sourcing,
contracts, spending, and supplier management;
• Drive best practices and transformation activities to ensure continuous
improvement;
• Initiate procure-to-pay processes on non-strategic purchases to improve
procurement efficiency.

#### Position Requirements:


The selected candidate will exhibit the following abilities:
• Analytics -- Perform competitive bid analysis, cost analysis, fair-value
analysis and scenario modeling;
• Problem solving – Ability to understand objectives, identify obstacles,
initiative root cause analysis, mitigate risk, and develop and implement
recommendations for alternative solutions;
• Negotiation -- ability to conduct fact-based negotiations with Suppliers at
senior levels;
• Industry Acumen – Knowledge and experience in Marketing related field or
equivalent
• Team -- Ability to communicate, collaborate, and drive work successfully
within a matrix team environment;
• Independence -- Ability to complete tasks and initiatives with minimal
amount of supervision;
• Fact-seeking -- propensity to do appropriate research on goods/services
being purchased in order to drive strategy and benefit negotiations;
• Project Management – Ability to prioritize activities and multi-task to
drive maximum benefit.


Requirements:

• Previous Indirect Procurement experience is required;
• Professional experience in spend management is highly desirable;
• Bachelors Degree at least;
• MBA candidates are preferred, particularly with business experience in a
related field;
• Fluent in English;

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any
employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age,
religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis
of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.