Transport & Warehouse Procurement Manager

Transport & Warehouse Procurement Manager

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where, Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

When you show proactivity and ambition, we’ll harness it through a variety of opportunities and challenges in the diverse areas of our business – all with a strong and meaningful purpose. Where do you want to go? What do you want to do? How do you want to make a difference? The choice is yours, and we’ll help you get there. Be better together. Be Bayer.

Your mission will be to:

• Regional Strategy & Accountability: Responsible for sourcing and supplier management activities on a regional scale for the Transportation and Warehousing sector within LATAM (mainly Argentina, México, Colombia y Guatemala).
• Strategic Alignment: Contributes to the development of global category strategies. Implements these strategies and initiatives for specific materials and services.
• Compliance: Ensures alignment with Procurement guidelines, internal/external process standards, and the delivery of required business performance in the region.
• Stakeholder Management: Understands business needs and builds effective, trustful, personal, and virtual relationships with key regional and country stakeholders.
• Contract Management: Manages supply agreements and contracts. Monitors contractual clauses over the entire lifecycle to minimize risk through terms and conditions aligned with the legal function.
• Market Intelligence: Provides country-specific market intelligence to mitigate supply risk, gain competitive advantage, and drive better business decisions.
• Supply Market Analysis: Conducts continuous, detailed analysis of suppliers and market trends at the country level (technology, supply base, etc.).
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Implements supplier management principles to build relationships and improve overall performance.
• Sustainability: Incorporates corporate responsibility and commitment to sustainable business practices into supplier relationships; ensures compliance via audits and improvement plans.
• Sourcing Events: Plans and executes sourcing events via external partners to create a competitive advantage.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Supports D&I programs in local markets as appropriate.
• Work Relations: Suppliers, regulatory affairs, product supply, supply chain, regional marketing, third-party procurement support.

Unlock your potential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (Required).
• Master’s Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Business, Supply Chain, or Logistics (nice to have).
• Strong leadership and managerial skills at the general management level.
• Excellence in negotiation, communication, presentation, influencing, and problem-solving.
• Demonstrated advance ability to manage virtual team environments.
• High-level organizational, executive, intercultural, and interpersonal skills.
• Proven advance analytical decision-making skills and creative thinking.
• Advance experience in strategic procurement, quality management systems, regulatory requirements, and logistics processes.
• Advance level of english.
• Potugues nice to have.

YOUR APPLICATION

This is your opportunity to tackle the world’s biggest challenges with us: Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer.

Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.

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