Job Description

Full/Part Time: Full
Location: India
Description: Assistant Procurement Manager
Department: Procurement
Work Level: WL1D
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Global Procurement Assistant, food commodities & Ing will report to the Global Procurement Manager, and will have specific responsibility for supporting the overall aligned deployment of food Ingredients as follows:
Key Responsibilities:

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  Specific delegated responsibility for management of critical tasks required for the procurement of a group of materials within food materials with total spend of over €170 mio;. This will require thorough knowledge of the global/local supply bases, supplying to multi-Category UL sourcing units in India
• Implement strategies for the procurement of the respective portfolios in line with business objectives - Decides who to buy from, how to buy, when to buy
• Flawless administration of global contract lifecycle ensuring 100% coverage of contracts on time in full.
• Supporting Strategy development for selected materials within the portfolio, including profiling of supply markets; in-depth analysis of Market Intelligence; understanding internal needs.
• Supporting the team to achieve its goals and objectives and monitoring target delivery (commercial analyst function including reporting and analysis on VIP savings, cash generation, Price-to-Price movement, complexity reduction, compliance, resilience and forecasting).
• Supporting the Global Procurement Manager with preparation of RFQs and e-tenders and their analysis, participating in and conducting negotiations where appropriate.
• Implementation of global agreements: creation and updating contracts in iCAT and ensuring agreements (UPAs) and contracts (UPCs/CTCs) are issued to and returned by suppliers.
• Supporting the Procurement Manager with price forecasting and forecast variance analysis.
• Coordinating Procurement projects as needed.
• Managing supply chain issues (e.g. incident management).
• Identifying metrics, tools and processes to optimise ways of working.
• Business partnering - represent the procurement function when interacting with the other functional areas (e.g. R&D, Logistics, Procurement Operations, Markets), with particular focus on Oral Category.
• Building relationships with suppliers & internal customers/stakeholders where required.
• Measuring and managing overall supplier performance.

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  Portfolio Strategy Development
• Strategic Supplier Partnerships
• Negotiation
• Stakeholder Management and Communication
• Talent Catalyst
• Experience of working within complex and virtual teams preferred.
• Willingness for some travel (infrequent) required.

• Accountability and Responsibility
• Team Alignment
• Growth Mindset
• Bias for Action
  
  Experience Required:
• Experience in Procurement, R&D or Sales from the foods Industry
• Experience on large-scale change management projects
• Knowledge of food commodities & ing products and Direct Procurement