Assistant Manager - Procurement - Food & Commodities

Assistant Procurement Manager-Food & Commodities

Description: Global Procurement Assistant - Food Commodities and Ingredients

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:

- 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 optimize 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.

Key Skills/ Experience:

- 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.

Competencies:

- 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 products and Direct Procurement