Senior Manager, Direct Procurement

Job Summary :

Manage procurement processes of packaging materials to ensure required delivery while compliant to procurement policy.

Priorties : Packaging strategy, material risk management, productivity/ cost mitigation, innovation, sustainability and cash flow improvement. It also includes procurement process and execution excellence, supplier relationship/ stakeholders/ and contract management.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop packaging category expertise & knowledge and build market analysis of commodities at global/regional perspective.  Drive, develop and share market intelligence/cost driver.
• Deliver packaging strategy and define action plan/ project pipeline (next 3-4 years) for implementation
• Ensure effective relationships with suppliers and ensure fundamentals in place (Legal, P2P process, GCS and quality/governance compliance), including manage suppliers risk to ensure business continuity and avoid potential crisis
• Capture innovation through collaboration, create productivity/ sustainability initiatives in Packaging (commodities and Value engineer) and support innovation coming from outside to inside
• Collaborate with global/ regional/ cross functions on NPD (Packaging part) and productivity projects
• Support leader to do packaging AOP (budget) and manage packaging category spends & performance and suppliers on a day-to-day basis
• Launch RFP; manage bidding process in coordination with key stakeholders within BU and, if required, global/ regional procurement
• Select & Validate Suppliers/Optimize suppliers' portfolio according to strategy and negotiate contracts and supply agreements (when relevant)
• Packaging Leader:
• Leads packaging P2P team
• Owns the P2P process
• Ensures timely negotiated and update of packaging needs
• Develop network with other business units, connect with external other industries
• Support supplier performance evaluation
• Well manage productivity and sustainability report including SAP update
• Support the procurement organization in terms of digital transformation

Skills and Experiance :

• Degree Level in Business, Economics, Engineering, Packaging Technology or related field.  

• At least 5 years of related working experience with 2-3 years in supervisory Procurement roles

• Outstanding Functional knowledge in different aspects of Procurement such as sourcing, category management processes

• Possess good interaction with cross functional teams and supplier partnership mindset

• Business acumen and have strong analytical skills

• High responsibility and dedication and focus on quality and timely delivery

• Agility and ability to perform multitask. Customer oriented

• Good project management skill

• Fluent in English. Good communication skills

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