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Regional Procurement Category Manager, Packaging 

Job Description Summary

Oversees a specific category of goods or services within an organization, primarily interacting with external stakeholders (suppliers). Develops and implements category strategies to optimize cost, quality, and supplier performance. Conducts market analysis and supplier assessments to identify potential improvements and opportunities. Negotiates contracts, terms, and conditions with suppliers to secure favorable agreements. Monitors supplier performance and manages relationships within the assigned category. Collaborates with stakeholders to align procurement goals with the organization's objectives. Stays updated on industry trends, regulations, and best practices to make informed decisions.

Key Tasks

• Leads the development of regional category strategy in collaboration with global teams (Community of Practice)
• Implements categories strategies and initiatives for his/her materials and services, ensuring alignment, compliance with Procurement guideline, as well as other internal/external process standards and delivery of required business performance in his/her region
• Understands business needs and builds effective, trustful, personal and virtual relationships with key regional/country stakeholders.
• Manages supply agreements & contracts. Monitors and controls contractual agreements and clauses over entire lifecycle and minimizes exposure to contractual risks in external relationships through usage of terms and conditions aligned with legal function.
• Provides country-specific market intelligence to mitigate supply risk, gain competitive advantage and make better business decisions. Continuously conducts detailed supplier and supply market analysis at country level looking at facts and indicating market trends in supply base and technology.
• Manages supplier relationships and implements supplier management principles in supply base, builds relationships and improves supplier performance. Incorporates company’s responsibility and commitment to sustainable business practices into category supplier relationships and ensures compliance through reports, audits and improvement plans.
• Plans and executes sourcing events via collaboration with sourcing managers to create a competitive advantage
• Supports diversity and inclusion programs in local markets as appropriate
• Co-ordinates PULL projects across subcategories.

Key Working Relations:

• Suppliers
• Regulatory
• Product Supply - Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Resilience, Packaging Technology
• Regional Marketing
• Legal
• Procurement Internal Partners – Sourcing team, Global Business Services

Scope

·       Regional

Impact / Financials

• 50 million spend impacting 1.6 Billion Sales

Qualification & Competencies:

• BA/BS in a relevant field and more than 7 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Strong leadership & managerial skills at the general management level
• Strong negotiation, communication, presentation, influencing & problem solving skills
• Strong ability to manage virtual team environment
• Organization, executive level, intercultural & interpersonal skills,
• Demonstrated analytical decision making skills & creative thinking
• Specific knowledge & experience of strategic procurement, quality management systems, regulatory requirements & logistics processes, principles & practices
• Sense of urgency and drive to solve issues.

Under direct responsibility:

Number of suppliers: 527

Number of materials: 3780

We also have ~11 supplier countries that the person needs to work with.

Number of categories (fragmented spend base) : 19 sub categories

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