Purchasing Manager

2 weeks ago

East Hanover, United States Givaudan Fragrances Full time

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There‘s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Our Procurement teams develop and implement business procurement strategies for our sites to improve cost, both P&L and balance sheet and to identify and reduce risk, according to our goals, corporate guidelines and local policies. They are skilled, efficient, performance-driven, and a team that ensures targets completion. They manage supplier performance to ensure uninterrupted supply.

Reporting to the head of Procurement IM&S NOAM, you will implement strategies for complex categories of goods and services, to secure the required supply of materials and services within the company, supporting corporate, sustainability and partner goals according to our strategy and corporate guidelines.

This position can be based in our sites in Cincinnati or New Jersey, with an hybrid working model (4 days at the office, 1 day remote)

Category Management Strategy

  • Help develop and implement Indirect Materials & Services Procurement strategies.
  • Understand main cost drivers, industry trends and best practices to shape the IM&S strategy following business and operations goals
  • Support sourcing strategy development within teams
  • Support sourcing strategy implementation by leading major RFQs and important commercial negotiations
  • Analyze supply markets and implement risk management strategies for main Indirect Materials and Services
  • Support the responsible sourcing projects implementation (Sedex, Audits).

Supplier Management

  • Identify opportunities for portfolio optimization and involve and engage partners in development of optimization plans
  • Link with Site Buyers and other regional teams and sourcing centers to identify alternative suppliers in other geographies, deploy global strategies, contracts and framework agreements, collect supplier performance feedback
  • Develop global/regional supplier relationships, and lead main supplier conflict resolutions
  • Identify potential demand and specification changes and communicate them with suppliers

Business Reporting

  • Identify site and our needs
  • Lead quarterly site and business reviews
  • Identify potential demand and specification changes, communicate with important company partners any marketcondition changes which may affect the business
  • Prepare initiative and project plans and forecasts following business budget cycle
  • Provide price forecast and market trends for main commodities and services

You?

  • Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
  • 10 years of experience in Engineering, Procurement and other functional experience.
  • Experience working in a manufacturing environment
  • Fluent in English, other languages
  • Understanding of procurement systems - SAP
  • Understanding of the relevant supply markets
  • Financial and Project Management skills

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and a high matching 401k

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people‘s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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