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Procurement Category Manager France & Iberia, Sax
Location: Sax, Spain
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Description:
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 enable the company to invest in growth and people.
* Improve the company for your Procurement Category through local strategy definition and implementation, regional and local synergies, development of category knowledge, process optimization, and TCO optimization.
* Reporting to Procurement Manager France & Iberia, you will be responsible for:
* Strategy: Develop necessary information related to suppliers to elaborate and monitor your category strategy. Lead and execute Procurement strategies for the suppliers’ panel in your category.
* Sourcing: Initiate and lead regional sourcing processes to fulfill objectives of capacity, quality, price, time limit, service, reliability, financial health, and technical backup.
* Negotiation: Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
* Contract Management: Develop, negotiate, and manage Procurement contracts and agreements.
* Stakeholders Management: Support plant project teams in the assignment process and monitoring forward sourcing.
* Troubleshooting: Manage and solve suppliers-plant problems related to cost, quality, and delivery concerns.
* Database Management: Establish and update an approved supplier panel and create a database for your procurement category.
Requisites:
* University degree, preferably in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or Supply Chain.
* Minimum 3 years in a similar position in the industrial sector (preferably in the packaging industry).
* Fluent in English, French, and Spanish (Portuguese is a plus, German and/or Italian are an advantage).
* Proficient in Office.
* Willingness to travel in France, Spain, and Portugal (up to 30-40%).
* Excellent soft skills, business and emotional intelligence, and exemplary work ethics.
* Ability to work with a high degree of self-responsibility and proven influential capabilities.
* Hands-on doer with entrepreneurial spirit, open-minded, autonomous & structured.
* Negotiation skills and results orientation.
* Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation & interpersonal skills.
* Outstanding communication, initiative & creativity.
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