Technical Buyer working at Karlsberg Brewery, handling procurement of materials and supplier negotiations. Engaging in strategic purchasing processes to ensure efficient operations.
About the role
- Senior Procurement Buyer in Corporate department managing procurement processes and supplier negotiations. Collaborating with stakeholders and implementing saving opportunities within procurement.
Responsibilities
- Identifies and drives saving opportunities, consumption reduction and value engineering projects through negotiations.
- Conducts eAuctions for goods and services, ensuring best value offering to business.
- Revisits agreed terms with existing suppliers to improve productivity and working capital. She / He implements new deals and identifies new saving opportunities.
- Developing and implementing the Annual Operating Plan together with the Business and the Commodity Strategic Team
- Create and apply strategically the Category Cards for the supported sites/countries.
- Drives BAE execution in strong collaboration with the business partner and the other stakeholders.
- Engages in stakeholder & requisitioner communication aiming to improve understanding of indirect procurement processes and tools.
- Supports implementation of automation opportunities for the assigned sites.
- Maintains a strong collaboration with the Procurement Operations Buyer to ensure common target achievement.
- The Sourcing Buyer will ensure all tasks are carried out in line with indirect procurement policy and strategy.
- Covers more than 4 sites with a high degree of complexity, with cumulative annual addressable spend of more than $5M and delivers savings of more than 7% of that spend in scope.
- On an ad hoc basis, can be asked to run sourcing projects with spend of more than $250K if there is alignment with the Strategic Category Teams and buyer’s proximity to site & stakeholders make sense for this to happen
Requirements
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Self motivated and capable to work with tight deadlines
- Good organizational skills with an ability to prioritize
- Problem Solving skills
- Technical knowledge of Procurement/sourcing
- Planning, negotiations, and agreements/contract management
- Proficiency of English and another language is a plus
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in a purchasing/procurement environment
- Proven track record of running and managing competitive selection processes (RFP, RFQ, eAuctions)
- Microsoft Office skills
Benefits
- A culture that fosters inclusion, diversity and innovation
- Market specific training and ongoing personal development
- Career growth opportunities
- Experienced leaders to support your professional development
- International work environment
- Medical plan provided
- Meal allowance
- Budget for flexible benefit scheme which can be used for travel, sports, dental scheme, and other
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