Procurement Category Manager France & Iberia
Global leader in innovative packaging solutions.
Procurement Category Manager France & IberiaPurchasing and LogisticsBarcelona (Spain)
Ref: QP7319 - July 13, 2024 - INDUSTRY AND CAPITAL GOODS
FUNCTIONS
Our client is a global leader in innovative packaging solutions. You will join a dynamic team within a truly international working environment collaborating with plants in Spain, France, and Portugal.
Your Responsibilities:
* Focus on cutting procurement expenses to invest in growth and people.
* Improve Procurement Category through local strategy definition, regional and local synergies, category knowledge development, process optimization, and TCO optimization.
* Reporting to Procurement Manager France & Iberia.
Responsibilities:
* Develop, monitor, and execute category strategy.
* Lead Procurement strategies for the suppliers' panel.
* Develop category strategy, risk management, and reverse engineering.
* Install KPIs to monitor strategy implementation.
* Support business development activities and cross-sectional projects.
* Set up purchasing standards.
* Initiate and lead regional sourcing processes.
* Craft negotiation strategies and close deals.
* Develop, negotiate, and manage Procurement contracts and agreements.
* Give support to plant project teams and stakeholders.
* Manage and solve suppliers-plant problems.
* Establish and update an approved supplier panel.
* Create and centralize a database for procurement category.
Requisites:
* University degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or Supply Chain.
* Minimum 3 years in a similar position in the industrial sector.
* Fluent in English, French, and Spanish.
* Proficient in Office.
* Willingness to travel in France, Spain, and Portugal (30-40%).
* Excellent soft skills, business intelligence, and work ethics.
* Ability to work with self-responsibility and influential capabilities.
* Hands-on doer with an entrepreneurial spirit.
* Open-minded, autonomous, and structured.
* Negotiation skills, results orientation, problem-solving skills, project management, and interpersonal skills.
* Outstanding communication, initiative, and creativity.
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