Procurement Category Specialist supporting construction, facilities, and property services across EMEA at DS Smith. Driving value and ensuring compliance while collaborating with various stakeholders in procurement activities.
About the role
- Global Procurement Manager responsible for developing strategies for $350+ million spend in supply chain. Leading regional teams and sourcing events to enhance supplier relationships and performance.
Responsibilities
- Leading the development of the global category strategy for $350+ million in spend while ensuring alignment with the business requirements of all segments.
- Leading a team of regional category managers located across multiple geographies.
- Leading and sponsoring sourcing events at both a global and regional level, partnering with procurement business partners, R&D and Agile squads.
- Managing projects across multiple regions and ABUs including sourcing events, category initiatives, best practice sharing, data mining, etc..
- Supporting team members in developing key supplier relationships, escalating and resolving supplier continuity issues, planning SRM connections and value/innovation discussions.
- Leading in the creation and maintenance of category knowledge and processes to ensure category strategies are informed, relevant and up to date
- Monitoring supplier performance tracking to drive service, quality and cost improvements, as well as reduce risk across the enterprise.
- Identifying and evaluating new suppliers, while building trust and credibility with all suppliers by demonstrating integrity, commitment and results orientation to drive and deliver results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in business, supply chain or related discipline
- 10+ years’ experience in Procurement or other related function.
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) with ability to communicate up and across the organization
- Cross functional collaboration and influencing, project management, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently in heavily matrixed organization
- Ability to travel up to 15% of the time
Benefits
- Total Benefits
- 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan
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