Senior General Purchasing Manager

Job Location: ​Shanghai​

Company description

Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 38,767  dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

Diversity Statement

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 of 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.

About the Role:

We are in search of a proficient leadership to lead our regional general procurement initiatives. The role will be responsible for ensure the procurement of the assigned goods/services, complying with budgeting long/mid-range plans and expected quality level across both commercial and industrial. The candidate must have a strong knowledge of sourcing and procurement techniques as well as a dexterity in “reading” the market. The ideal candidate should be capable of developing new supplying sources or purchasing process fully compliant with global General Procurement roadmap and strategies.

Main Responsibilities:

CATEGORY MANAGEMENT

• Guarantees Category implementation, ensuring business continuity and cost mitigation across commodities and plants.
• Ensures the management of pre-defined procurement activities due to specific Categories, ensuring availability of services with agreed quality and service levels while optimizing value for Ferrero and applying the internal methodologies, procedures and tools

SOURCING SCOUTING & NEGOTIATION

• Ensures relative market analysis, supervising the scouting and the definition of the supplier base in order to have the best partnership and bring the most value to the company business.
• Responsible for qualifying new suppliers that eligible for Ferrero requirements and organize vendor selection process. 
• Support company functional departments to achieve satisfactory conclusion purchasing contracts with suppliers for the assigned area of goods/services, ensuring adequate purchasing terms and conditions.

SOURCE TO PAY

• Monitor and guarantee the right source-to-pay process and positions of suppliers along the due diligence cycle
• Guarantee Supplier Registration and Qualification, with Legal MSA, Financial Assessment, Insurance Compliance, Resp. Sourcing Compliance, Certification and Quality if needed.

CONTRACT & VENDOR MANAGEMENT

• Ensures the application of contracts that fulfil ensuring supply needs, meet specifications, timing and service level standards 
• Ensure new required contract compliance with legal and central governance.
• Vendor mapping with annual spending

SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT - PERFORMANCE & REPORTING

• Quarterly/Yearly - Monitor and reporting of KPI performance  - to guarantee the reliability of supply in terms of quality, delivery time and volumes.
• Periodic review on market data on General Procurement category suppliers’ services

Who we are looking for:

• Experience and education/training on Purchasing or relevant territory
• Knowledge of Marketing tools; experience with marketing agencies (creative/digital/consultant) is a plus
• Analytical skills 
• Strong Negotiation skills and Communication skills
• Knowledge of procurement process, esp. with global team is a plus
• Strong Relationship Management skills.
• Proficiency in English and Mandarin is required - both, written and spoken., working within a large global MNC
• SAP experience is a must
• Ariba Experience is a plus

How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:

Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.