Global Packaging Procurement Category Manager

Grade G - Office/ Core
Responsible for providing dedicated procurement, programme and stakeholder management support for the hub or at site, based on advanced procurement management knowledge, conducting day-to-day (non-category aligned) procurement execution activities in order to meet the Service Level Agreements and Operational Level Agreements for procurement operations.

Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Purpose !

Own the development and execution of the Global Packaging strategy.

Develop, manage and lead SRM for Global Packaging suppliers:

Drive value delivery for the SPU or equivalent experience from the global suppliers

Support business contingency process by building appropriate risk mitigations

Participate in all business-critical final negotiations of Packaging suppliers

Handle relationships with strategy teams and key business functions e.g. Sales for customer tenders, PUs and wider GSC

Lead and coordinate strategy

Ensure segment sourcing teams promote and encourage outward focus on supply base and both proactively investigate, and track supply market innovations and change instigated by suppliers

Define and supervise performance measures for the market sector.

To be accountable for implementation of global / regional packaging sourcing strategy within the appropriate packaging supply market segment

Maintain deep relationships with business customers ensuring sourcing strategy supports local business strategy and vice versa

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop regional category sourcing strategies and plans aligned to the needs of the business, finding opportunities to build business value / competitive advantage and mitigate risk in a compliant manner.
• Build and maintain good regional market / supplier knowledge.
• Support / own the strategic sourcing process to realise defined category management strategies, in collaboration customers including:
• Ensure all category sourcing arrangements are fully compliant to all corporate social, environmental, financial, risk, E&C and HSSE policies and standards and that all sourcing is performed in line with defined Delegations of Authority. As part of this, maintaining an effective audit trail during the entire sourcing process. Support contracts compliance agenda.
• Develop jointly agreed performance measurement criteria / frameworks with suppliers to continuously supervise and improve supplier performance, ensuring these are embedded with contracts. Perform / co-ordinate / support supplier performance management activities, including the collation of performance data, support for supplier performance reviews and driving continuous improvements / performance improvements as the need arises with other business customers.
• Support strategic efforts including supply base segmentation, supporting reviews, and driving supply side innovation
• Engage and work collaboratively on a regional basis to enable the effective development and/ or delivery of plus post contract supplier management activities, as vital.
• Ensure provision of timely supply market knowledge to business customers, relaying current and future impactful events and their potential consequences.
• Take care of sourcing matters promptly and effectively.
• Operate at all times in a manner that maintains client happiness with the function.

Summary Decision Rights

• DOA for Globally
• Allocation of volume across supply base
• LBM financial forecast
• Prioritisation of cost/cash improvement projects and supplier CI activity

Education

University degree and equivalent work experience, in an appropriate technical and commercial field

Experience

Direct raw material category experience in global businesses. Sourcing methodologies and tools.

Skills & Proficiencies

Global sourcing category strategy dealing with global and regional supply basis, track record of multi-year business value delivery aligned to business and sourcing strategies. E-optimisation, AT Kearney Chessboard and experience of working within a global procurement matrix organisation desirable.

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Building sustainability, Category spend profiling, Category Strategy, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Cost modelling, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Market Analysis, Negotiation planning and preparation, Sourcing strategy, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Selection, Sustainability awareness and action, Value creation and management

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