Category Procurement Specialist at FrieslandCampina

About the job

• The BPM serves as a Procurement ambassador between the Business functions they support and Procurement.
• This role supports Marketing, Sales, HR, IT and CAD and is also responsible for External manufacturing across SSA

What We Ask

• Proven experience in Procurement (+7 years) in the field of Direct Materials (Packaging, Ingredients) and/or Indirect Materials and Services (Capex, MRO, Utilities, Marketing, Professional Services, Logistics, etc), preferably in an international setting.
• Good business partnering skills: commercial acumen and understanding of and ability to challenge business needs and translate them into key sourcing priorities to ensure optimal value and risk mitigation.
• Experienced negotiator and Supplier relationship Management capabilities
• Financial understanding of P&L and Working Capital, understanding the impact of own actions and market developments on these.
• Ability to manage all aspects of a project from defining the overall project, identifying stakeholders, managing activities, time plans, reporting status, and handling issues toward successful delivery.
• Strong influencing, communication, and stakeholder management skills at tactical and strategic levels.
• Able to structure and define the bigger picture and translate that to processes, projects, and action plans.
• Acting with pace and decisiveness

What We Offer

• A dynamic challenging, and innovative work environment.
• We believe in nourishing growth and offer training and personal development.
• Competitive remuneration package

Vacancy Description

• Support Manager Category Procurement in development of Procurement Strategy (bottom up / top down), in line with procurement categories, business & product needs, supply market dynamics & technological changes in the marketplace, resulting in a Procurement strategy for the Opco / location in scope.
• Communicate location business, strategy & processes to category procurement in order to represent business’ interest towards category procurement teams to ensure an optimized procurement strategy. Based on this develop a procurement strategy for the opco / cluster.
• To oversee procurement activities resulting in a consistent communication & execution of the Procurement Strategy while securing/assuring continuity of the local business, incl. driving contractor safety, supply contingency, services, value engineering…
• Ensure proper communication, handover and interaction with Category Management to implement Procurement strategy and initiatives for the location, ensuring functional excellence within the Opco, especially strategic sourcing, supplier management activities and user compliance.
• Initiate development of new procurement projects / savings initiatives
• Execute Procurement initiatives in the location, both initiated locally, as initiated by Category Management, ensuring delivery of procurement projects & savings for the opco.
• Participate as procurement lead in various premiums (MT, Ops meetings, leadership teams) for the location
• Develop and manage the relationships with the internal stakeholders and procurement colleagues resulting in efficient and effective relationships.
• Act as an ambassador and linking pin between Corporate Procurement and the Business Location.
• Serve as the leader and key point of contact on all Procurement matters related to the business location, resulting in the desired level of Procurement professionalism within the business, and execution of Procurement strategy.
• Be first point of contact and responsible for all operational matters for the locations in scope (e.g. payment term disputes, local contracts, new vendor approvals,…); being proactive in the debottlenecking / escalating / deescalating of Procurement/Opco/BG/Country issues.
• Serve as the key approval mechanism for supplier agreements and provide support in critical supplier negotiations and relationship building, in line with the Corporate Procurement Strategy, resulting in compliant supplier agreements
• Drive implementation, optimization and execution of procurement processes and systems in the location (SAP, Coupa, vendor ratings, budgeting, reporting …), in line with central procurement
• Manage the procurement part of the implementation of e.g. SAP; and ensure full compliancy for the OpCo / locations in scope with procurement policies & procedures, CIA (and others) controls in the PtP domain
• Overall planning and coordination of all activities for own opco and alignment of required resources
• Manage the financial processes in relation to Procurement, in compliance with the FrieslandCampina Financial Management policy, resulting in the agreed upon financial objectives.
• Manage indirect reports to deliver category strategies