Assistant Indirect Procurement Manager

Our Craft

Our vision is to give more by crafting exceptional ultra-premium spirit brands. The Macallan is our leading brand, supported by Highland Park and The Glenrothes in the fast-growing single malt category and Naked Malt in the blended malt category. Our portfolio is completed with Brugal premium rum from the Dominican Republic, The Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky, and Wyoming Whiskey in the American Whiskey category. Edrington also has a strategic partnership with No.3 London Dry Gin.

Our principal shareholder is a charitable trust, so we were built to make a world of difference. Discover a place where values define our culture. The home of exceptional brands, where people and teams thrive.

Embrace Excellence

This role is responsible for providing indirect procurement category management support to the Edrington China business, including responsibility for Marketing Service category- POSM & Visibility, ATL/BTL categories that will effectively meet the needs of business and deliver the maximum value for the business in China. This includes business engagement, procurement category strategy & enablement activities, from sourcing, bidding, quotation management, contract management to supplier management and category management. This role will be an efficient functioning of the procurement department and business partner to our marketing, & commercial functions.

Make an Impact

• Building strong connections with key business partners. Managing the needs and expectations of the business to drive satisfaction while ensuring compliance to procurement standards and alignment with procurement strategies.
• Engages and collaborates with internal stakeholders to understand local business context and to build the pipeline of projects that have significant saving potential.
• Support Procurement team for the strategy and implementation plan on agencies category (POSM & Visibility, Marketing ATL/BTL) of spend in China that will effectively meet the needs of the business and deliver the maximum value, ensuring category management is aligned with global & regional & local strategies and business needs.
• Support supplier evaluations and vendor pool assessments to ensure our suppliers can be held accountable for delivery and our vendor pool remains competitive, of high quality and compliant.
• Stay abreast of regional & local trends to assist the stakeholders in their existing needs and provide innovative ideas for efficient marketing spends.
• Managing the interactions with the organizations that supply the services to the company including relationship building, data review and analysis, performance management, development, improvement, and innovation.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of the relevant industrial and global/regional procurement best practices.

Your Talent and Skills

• Financial acumen is key, with budget setting and adherence paramount.
• Prior experience at POSM & Visibility-IMO, ATL or BTL, Procurement project management is essential to this role.
• Demonstrated capability of key stakeholder engagement, relationship building and process management especially in the marketing service is essential. 
• Excellent communication skills to be able to communicate locally with the team in China and good command in both verbal & written English.
• Strong problem solving, negotiation, presentation, organizational skills.
• Hands-on computer knowledge in MS Word, Excel, Power point.
• Previous experience of SAP/ Power BI would be advantageous.

Equal opportunities

We’ve put together some criteria that we think is important for this role, but don’t worry if your experience and expertise isn’t an exact match. If you feel that you can add value to our role and to Edrington more broadly, we would welcome your application and be eager to learn more about you.