Procurement Category Manager France & Iberia
Location: Barcelona, 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. Strategy: Develop the necessary information related to the suppliers of your panel 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, and reliability.
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 and partner with stakeholders to ensure clear requirements documentation.
6. Troubleshooting: Manage and solve supplier-plant problems related to cost, quality, and delivery concerns.
7. Database Management: Establish and update an approved supplier panel and create a centralized 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 would be a plus).
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 an entrepreneurial spirit.
9. Open-minded, autonomous & structured person.
10. Negotiation skills and results orientation.
11. Excellent problem-solving, project management, facilitation & interpersonal skills.
12. Outstanding communication, initiative & creativity.
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