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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:
1. Focus on cutting procurement expenses to enable the company to invest in growth and people.
2. 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.
3. Reporting to Procurement Manager France & Iberia, you will be responsible for:
1. 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.
2. Sourcing: Initiate and lead regional sourcing processes to fulfill objectives of capacity, quality, price, time limit, service, reliability, financial health, and technical backup.
3. Negotiation: Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
4. Contract Management: Develop, negotiate, and manage Procurement contracts and agreements.
5. Stakeholders Management: Support plant project teams in the assignment process and monitoring forward sourcing.
6. Troubleshooting: Manage and solve suppliers-plant problems related to cost, quality, and delivery concerns.
7. Database Management: Establish and update an approved supplier panel and create a database for your procurement category.
Requisites:
1. University degree, preferably in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or Supply Chain.
2. Minimum 3 years in a similar position in the industrial sector (preferably in the packaging industry).
3. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish (Portuguese is a plus, German and/or Italian are an advantage).
4. Proficient in Office.
5. Willingness to travel in France, Spain, and Portugal (up to 30-40%).
6. Excellent soft skills, business and emotional intelligence, and exemplary work ethics.
7. Ability to work with a high degree of self-responsibility and proven influential capabilities.
8. Hands-on doer with entrepreneurial spirit, open-minded, autonomous & structured.
9. Negotiation skills and results orientation.
10. Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation & interpersonal skills.
11. Outstanding communication, initiative & creativity.
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