Hazelnut Company Chile - Technical Procurement Buyer

About the Role:

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Technical Procurement Buyer to join our team in the Hazelnut Company Chile, responsible for ensuring the timely and effective procurement of materials in line with the established Category Strategy.

You will play a critical part in meeting the company’s operational requirements by balancing cost, quality, and delivery expectations.

Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will lead supplier negotiations, manage ongoing supplier relationships, and drive the scouting and evaluation of new vendors. You will also be accountable to monitor supplier performance and optimizing procurement processes to secure business continuity and support long-term operational excellence.

Main Responsibilities:

• Contributes to defining the procurement strategy of the Category of responsibility, in alignment with medium and long-term Group strategies and responding to business needs
• Elaborates and ensures the budget and medium-term plan, according to Group strategy
• Manages procurement activities (i.e. price list, quote allocation, etc.) for the Category of responsibility, ensuring product availability with agreed quality and service levels while optimizing value for Ferrero and applying the internal methodologies, procedures and tools
• Manages vendor scouting to check potential new opportunities in the market
• Performs market analyses for the Category of responsibility, constantly monitors the market, and provides management with updated specific analysis
• Conducts negotiation with suppliers of the Category of responsibility, in alignment with internal procedures and Ferrero Code of Business Conduct
• Ensures competition between suppliers
• Applies and implements procurement policies, vendor management and developing policies, based on technical, organizational, economical and international financial knowledge, to reach the best possible results according to Group requirements in terms of timing and flexibility
• Ensures purchase orders management, looks for Request for Proposals from vendors, proposing qualified and suitable alternatives
• Analyses, aligns and evaluates offers received, to select the best available alternatives
• Maintains, consolidates and improves relationships with existing suppliers, to ensure continuity, manage criticalities and strengthen common objectives
• Supports for item having contracts managed locally, presence of Global Master Agreements, application of qualitative and quantitative contracts standards
• Supports supplier claim management along with relevant stakeholders
• Supports work item management to ensure on time payments
• Supports the implementation of sustainability initiatives plan in day-to-day procurement activities
• Ensures supplier compliance with sustainability standards

Requirements:

Educational background:

• At least a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or other related fields  

Professional experience:

• 5 years of relevant procurement work experience

Interpersonal skills:

• Strong communication skills
• Enthusiasm and commitment to excellence with a result-oriented approach
• Flexible, reliable, detail-oriented, autonomous and detail-oriented
• Stakeholder management skills (interacting openly and comfortably, anticipating and balancing their needs)
• Analytical and reporting skills and problem-solving abilities  
• Skills to perform duties and responsibilities in alignment with the company's ethical standards and values
• Ability to work under pressure, to deal with conflicts and uncertainty  

IT skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Previous experience with SAP

Languages:

• Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English
• Any other languages will be considered an asset

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 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? Nearly 40,000 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.