Supply Chain / Regulations/ Contracts Project Manager

Supply Chain / Regulations/ Contracts Project Manager – Banking Client – Brussels

Duration: 6 months

Rate: 500 – 700 euros per day

Hybrid working.

The Supply Chain department needs to comply to new regulations, such as the Digital Operation Resilience Act (DORA), ESG (CSRD), etc…. To become compliant, the existing contract base (1000+ contracts) needs to be reviewed, then where applicable, amendments will need to be negotiated and agreed with the suppliers.

You will be the single point of contact within the Supply Chain Organisation for the impact assessment of regulations on the current supplier contracts. In practice this means,

• Agreeing scope of contracts to be amended with members of the program.
• Defining prioritization methods for amending contracts.
• Create synergies in contract amendment, amongst the various regulations
• Collaborating with key stakeholders (Category Managers, Legal, Service Business Owners, Third Party Security)
• Initiate the dialogue / negotiate with the impacted suppliers and take amendments through to signature.
• Maintain a clear status on the progress made, issues encountered, and perform regular reporting on these aspects.

Your Profile:

You must have

• Relevant procurement knowledge and experience (contracting, negotiation…).
• Experience in liaising and coordinating multiple stakeholders in the context of a contract negotiation.
• The ability to challenge the status quo and existing rational.
• Project Management experience.
• You are fluent in written and oral English.

Additional skills:

• You are able to work autonomously.
• You are able to work under pressure and can cope with strict deadlines, you have a hands-on approach.
• You are pragmatic and results oriented
• You can successfully prioritize tasks and coordinate several priorities at once.
• You are a pro-active team player.
• You have strong interpersonal skills – ability to listen to the users, and present messages clearly and convincingly to a senior audience.

Other advantageous skills

• Procurement knowledge specific to IT
• General knowledge of the DORA, ESG and other regulations
• Experience dealing with new regulations which impact supply chains.

Please do send across to me the most up to date CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com