Global Foods Business Group Procurement Manager

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Key Accountabilities

• Support the BG profitability ambitions through enabling the delivery of the procurement financial targets through strong collaboration and alignment with R&D and SC.
• Support portfolios landing their NMI targets in-year and also the key initiatives highlighted in their longer term strategic plans.
• Influence building a healthy smart product plan funnel for long term value creation agenda
• Forecasting : Support for quarterly forecasting cycles to ensure smooth execution of Foods Forecasting cycle
• Be the procurement lead on senior BG Forums
  

Buy Responsibly

• Be the lead of the Foods Sustainable Sourcing, Regenerative Agriculture and Higher Animal Welfare agenda.
• Climate agenda : Support climate agenda with the being the face of BG procurement, and driving progress across key pillars
• Drive sustainable packaging roadmaps and PCR availability for Foods. Support the packaging strategy creation and execution
• Bring external-in: follow up continuously where the industry players are doing in this space
  

Grow Together

• Partnership agenda : Support BG and procurement ambitions for step up in partnerships to leverage partnership agenda for superior growth ambitions, led by partner driven innovations
• Pricing and Profitability considerations : Support BG leadership with right pricing considerations basis material inflation and savings plan, along with key enablers to demonstrate competitive advantage
• Translate Foods innovation strategy and plans to procurement actions and engage on the job to be done with portfolio and market teams.
• Provide insights (pricing, risk assessment, capacity etc.) to BG innovation.
• Play leadership role in enabling the BIG BETS for Foods procurement, and driving the transformation agenda
  

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• Procurement: portfolios, market teams, finance
• Global Supply Chain
• Finance: global category and SC finance
• R&D: GDCs, Science & Technology teams
• Global brand teams
  

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