Procurement Manager for Marketing, IT, Travel and other services

• Previous 5 years of experience in Indirect Procurement
• Previous experience in Marketing Procurement is a big advantage
• Professional experience in Brand Marketing or Marketing/Communications spend management is highly desirable;
• Advanced English (You will be responsible for EMEA market)
• Negotiation skills -- ability to conduct fact-based negotiations with Suppliers at senior levels;
• Fact-seeking -- propensity to do appropriate research on goods/services being purchased in order to drive strategy and benefit negotiations;
• Independence -- Ability to complete tasks and initiatives with minimal amount of supervision;

University education (Bachelor's degree)

English - Advanced (C1)

Microsoft Word - Advanced
Microsoft Excel - Advanced
Microsoft PowerPoint - Advanced
Microsoft Outlook - Advanced

As Regional Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for sourcing, managing, and optimizing the purchase of goods and services on all indirect buys with primary spend in Lenovo’s North region in EMEA (UK, Benelux, Finland).
It includes 9 major operating expense categories: Marketing, IT Services, Real Estate, Travel, Workforce, Business Services, Site Services, HR Services, and R&D Services.


You should have experience in the related field and will be responsible for these primary business metrics:

• Manage and optimize Lenovo’s Spend with external suppliers, generating Procurement Value-Add (Savings and Cost-Avoidance) 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.
• 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;

Lenovo is a company in a constant state of creation. Here, you'll architect your own career, pioneer new ideas and master new skills.

Lenovo Slovakia employs more than 25 nationalities and is the biggest shared service center in Lenovo Group.

Our people share a common aspiration to be the very best. Whether serving our customers, working together as a team or contributing to the community, we are working to build unique company.