Senior Raw Material Procurement Manager
About the Role:
Provide to assure all sourcing needs of raw material and perform tasks related to Hangzhou Plant raw material, including project tracking, scouting, RFQ, contract, day to day sourcing communication, coordination with factory teams to achieve expected result.
Conducting negotiation / support negotiation at region level for raw material purchasing with local suppliers according to the specificity of the categories defined at Central & Area level and assuring the availability of raw material with expected service level, quality, cost management.
Manage supplier relationship, supplier performance review for long term.
Assure all the purchases operative activities, necessary for the plant about Raw material, ensuring availability of the various kinds of raw materials according to the allocation with centrally aligned and issuing/modifying orders.
Main Responsibilities:
CATEGORY MANAGEMENT
• Guarantees raw material category implementation, ensuring business continuity and cost mitigation across commodities and plants.
• Ensures the management of pre-defined procurement activities due to raw material categories, ensuring availability of services with agreed quality and service levels
• Monitors and reduces risk of service availability, prices volatility, through the implementation of specific actions and plans.
SOURCING SCOUTING & NEGOTIATION
• Manage the ordering plan activities, to assure the availability in the production units of the raw materials at the agreed levels of quality and service.
• Support to lead the sourcing activities in China Region with implementation aligned with central and local categories.
• Formulate and lead the negotiations with the Suppliers
SUPPLIERS MANAGEMENT & BUDGET MANAGEMENT
• Ensures the consolidation and improvement of relationships with existing suppliers, manages criticalities (Claims management), strengthens common objectives and supports action plans definition and implementation.
• Ensures the monitoring of suppliers’ performances, in order to ensure supply reliability, meet quality, responsible sourcing, quantity and time objectives, identifies possible corrections and involves suppliers in critical situations.
• Ensures the minimization of risks linked to single / sole sourcing situations and dominance positions.
• Ensures the application of contracts that fulfil ensuring supply needs, meet specifications, timing and service level standards.
• Ensures for the Category of responsibility budget and medium-term plan objectives achievement respecting timing, costs, and required features.
SOURCE TO PAY
• Monitor and guarantee the right source-to-pay process in order to respect the contract requisitions and the company financial terms established.
• Monitoring the progress and positions of suppliers along the due diligence cycle
• Ensure compliance with policies and central GOS and supervise local sourcing activities.
• Optimize the processes to increase efficiencies.
INTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS' MANAGEMENT
• Manage proactively Internal Stakeholders, aligning on Business Requirements & Needs, taking into account the stakeholders' requirements.
• Manage and coordinate internal relations with the different actors of the process in the optimization perspective of the value chain.
• Time-Line Tracking and Activities Progress Monitoring.
About You:
• 8+ years’ experience in procurement with Proven experiencing in Packaging Procurement, experience in F&B, FMCG and related industry considered an asset.
• Demonstrated experience of complex negotiation skills, supplier relationship management.
• Demonstrated ability to create and lead the implementations of sourcing strategies.
• Advanced level of English and mandarin (written & verbal), working within a large global MNC.
• Experience and knowledge in conducting multi-disciplinary performance analysis.
• Experience of e-procurement processes and systems (Ariba) is a plus.
What We Offer:
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About Ferrero:
Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.
DE&I at Ferrero:
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
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